The Gaitas each faced their own fears of unable to belong, but none so as much as Christina who dies to the loneliness of been unable to fit in. “He found her just staring into the fire” describes Raymond, illustrating how desperate his mother had been. As a result she is characterized as ‘appearing to be cheerful and vivacious’ but in truth ‘deeply depressed.’ Christina is an allusion of the displaced socialite hungry for a sense of fulfillment and security, in a place where she cannot get the acceptance she seeks; she wants to ‘fall asleep and die”. She feels geographically and culturally displaced, as a result she never settles into Frogmore. Raymond uses a series of fragmented repetitions to convey the alienation felt by Christina.
That’s what there is; that’s the reward, after more than a dozen years… Louis appears, and will be remembered, as a sad man complaining about love.” Page 126 | * This quote reveals Richard’s emotions while being with Louis; it’s as though he was displeased and the time spent with Louis wasn’t memorable to him. * This quote also tells us about Louis’ personality; he was dedicated with the relationship between himself and Richard and had cherished the memories greatly; shows great love and affection to people close to him. | “I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.” Page 135 | * This quote reveals a development with Virginia whom indicates that she is unsatisfied with her own life and wishes to be with Louis, whose life is more extravagant. * This quote reveals inner conflicts within Virginia because she desires to be lost and wishes no one to find her; she wishes she can escape from her life as if she didn’t exist | “She can kiss Kitty in the kitchen and love her husband,
Repulsion and desire theme is portrayed by the way Eddie repeats his father’s sins in juggling relations with Countess and May; same way the Old Man abandoned both May’s and Eddie mother by leaving them tortured and distraught by their obsessive love for him. May has feelings that same pain and anguish may rule her entire life because she is unable to totally live without Eddie, and this saddens the pair, leaving them to face their doubtful future being apart. As the play indicates however, the incest pair’s future promises additional emotional reunions as well as necessary, but painful moments of abandonment as evidenced where May hate Eddie after leaving her and equally loves him back after returning. In stage performance, lighting and sound are employed to convey distraught feelings, and violent emotions experienced by May and Eddie. As the play commences lights fade to shades of darkness, and the ‘Wake Up’ song by Merle Haggard is heard with its sound increasing gradually as lights rises; to convey the growing range between Eddie and May.
Manolin is Santiago’s closest friends and they care very much about each other. Santiago is one example of how in old age, loneliness, despair, and the sense of nothingness, may be combated through friendship and religion. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”, despair is a common theme. Both the old man, and the old waiter struggle to deal with it, and the old man has tried many different methods to get rid of the feeling. He had a wife, but his wife died; and he tried to commit suicide.
Browning wrote ‘My Last Duchess’ about a Duke who has had his wife killed out of jealousy. It could be argued that Browning uses the poem to show how the Duke’s number one relationship is actually with himself. His first line, ‘that’s my last duchess painted on the wall’ shows his pride in presenting the painting. The use of the possessive pronoun ‘my’ suggests that he saw his late wife as no more than a possession to show off. His lack of concern or grief in the fact that she is dead suggests that it is the object of the duchess and not the actual person that he loved, and the word ‘last’ implies that she was just one of many women that the Duke had turned into nothing more than objects for him to show off to others.
In the second stanza, last line, “share in its shame” represents the foolishness the speaker feels for loving that woman. In the third stanza, the speaker does not like hearing the lover’s name after their separation. He compares hearing her name to the sound of a “knell” which means a bell usually used in funerals or deaths. By this word choice, the speaker tells the reader just how deep his sorrow is, comparing hearing her name to hearing death bells each and every time. It causes him to question why he ever loved his ex-lover.
The same shared dream continues to crop up throughout the novel. Unlike most men in their position, they have something to look forward to and something to share: ‘With us it ain’t like that. We got a future.’ Since George is continuously placed in a position of inferiority throughout, the dream becomes a way of expressing his distaste to the brutality he receives. He wishes to be in a position of control and power where he can give others the same treatment he was put through. This can be seen while he once more shares the dream with Lennie stating ‘If we don’t like a guy we can say, “Get the hell out”’.
Life of Poe in relation to his works Poe’s life was plagued with unfortunate deaths of beloved relatives, sickness and drinking binges that changed his view on life and has a profound impact on his works from his repetitive yet never tiring themes of love, death and the never ending horrors of loneliness. Not only was his work very depressing, it was also widely accepted that the miserable characters in his works are metaphors of his interpretation of his own life and his many failures in his conquest for happiness. We know from his childhood that his father abandoned his family at a very young age and he once said that women is the source of comfort which provided the care Poe needed as an infant. However, tuberculosis claimed his wife, mother and much of his family’s lives leaving Poe emotionally broken. Many of his work revolved around the death of influential female characters that utilizes symbolism, for instance Annabel Lee which in my opinion is a metaphor of his wife – Virginia and that his poem is trying to resurrect the memories of their lives together as young adults in love and her tragic end and the horrors of death is symbolized as the raven who forcibly takes things from animals.
Many readers interpret this poem as depressing; displaying a man that is regretting something he has done in the past, which creates a melancholy tone. Frost uses the repetition of “I have” (I.1) to make a regretful tone. The persona has done many deeds or actions that have lead to his complete isolation to the outside world. This further develops the thought of suicide in the persona’s mind. Furthermore, the persona states he is “one acquainted with the night” (I.1).
Amir's mother died giving birth to him. It's clear he feels a great lack in his life, and he throws himself into poetry and writing. In addition, Amir feels an enormous amount of responsibility for his mother's death – as if he not only caused it but, was responsible for it. Worse, Amir begins to believe his father also blames him for his mother's death. This is only one aspect of the incredibly fraught relationship between Amir and his father.Amir is also extremely jealous of his half-brother Hassan.