Compare how feelings towards another person are presented in “Hour” and “To His Coy Mistress” “Hour” by Carol Ann Duffy and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvel, deal with feelings and emotions towards another person in different ways. In “Hour” the narrator describes an hour spent between her and her lover, and how the feeling of love they share between them is so strong it nearly manages to stop time. Whereas in “To His Coy Mistress” the narrator is telling the woman who he loves that she shouldn’t play hard to get because there isn’t enough time in the world. His feelings of physical passion grow throughout the poem as he tries to persuade her to have sex with him while they are still young and attractive. Form and structure are used effectively in both poems to show feelings and emotions to their lovers.
Glen is powerful and uses this to try to benefit himself many times. He asks Hi to swap wives as if Hi would just bow down and agree with him. He is married to Dot but he is hungry for more women and power. His greedy ego literally ends up pounding him in the face when Hi teaches him a lesson about what the greed has pushed him to do. Dot is greedy for more children and Glen finds satisfaction in using his power to please Dot.
Each stanza has emotive language of the writer’s feelings, we know this as it says things such as ‘we are millionaires, backhanding the night’ this gives the reader the impression that their relationship is stable and strong unlike the fragmented relationship in ‘The Manhunt’. From ‘Hour’ we can also see that it is written like a sonnet which shows that he is writing it like a love letter, however parts of the poem are spontaneous which tells us that their love is unpredictable which could indicate to the reader that they are at their honeymoon stage or that they’re just at the best part of
Suddenly, inescapably, the responsibility for alleviating her misery became hers: she had to make a choice. "But I love him, doctor." The triumph of the doctrine of the sovereignty of sentiment over sense would have delighted the Romantics, no doubt, but it has promoted an unconscionable amount of misery. "Your boyfriend is unlikely to change. He strangles you because he enjoys it and gets a feeling of power from doing so.
Although her Grandmother taught her that love is settling with a wealthy man, Janie does not give up on her vision of love. During her life, Janie learns to let go of others expectations as she comes to the realization that true love is not about wealth and comfort, but rather, it is an exhilarating journey that ultimately leaves her a more satisfied
“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.” Jane ch 17 -Charles Bingley- Easily influenced and a nice man. Darcy’s friend who move to Netherfield, and left Netherfield. “If a women is partial to a man, and does not endevour to conceal it, he must find it out.” Elizabeth ch 6 - Mrs. Bennet- obstructive and foolish. Elizabeth’s mother who is obsessed with husbands for her daughters. Attempting to push Elizabeth into a marriage with Mr. Collins.
Gatsby’s pursuit for love is a timeline detailing the change of the real American Dream into the corrupt version. To Gatsby, Daisy’s love is once the “fresh, green breast of the new world.” (171) This love is pure and strong, as was the American society’s belief once that discovery and hard work would reward one’s own desires. However, even Gatsby realizes he “paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.” (153) He was trying, at all costs, to fulfill the impossible task--the corrupt dream--of wooing the heart of a married woman, even a woman as shallow as Daisy. Likewise, the original American Dream deteriorates to the assumption that status symbols like wealth equals success. People have lost their own ability to determine what they want and have succumbed to society’s great pressure that money is the answer to everything.
From the first time met from their obsessed lovers Gatsby as well as Fitzgerald fell in love right away from the get go knowing this was the one girl to not let go. During Fitzgerald’s path to achieve Zelda there were many struggles and hardships that only made him work harder to attempt to satisfy the needs of Zelda’s high living and her high expectations leading to her happiness. In the same case for Gatsby but only after losing the girl first to aim and try and win her over one more time’ “Can’t repeat the past why of coarse you can”(pg101). Gatsby said while it all attempted beginning with his illegal business to gain wealth to try ad impress the loving Daisy to fulfill his master plan. Both of these girls played huge roles and were the motivation for Gatsby and Fitzgerald to have gained the wealth they have received.
Idealized Love “When we fall in love, we believe our partner is irreplaceable. We have found the one who is perfect, just right for us. The act of falling in love, in a sense, means that we reject the notion that individuals are interchangeable” (Gianotti). In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, idealized love strongly motivates the key characters Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. While their journey together begins as a brief fling, the two are soon engrossed in a lifelong relationship filled with undying affection and enduring regrets.
As you can imagine, the pressure to marry well is high. When Elizabeth is slighted with the opportunity to meet a ravishing young fellow named Mr. Darcy, she is drawn in by his wit and charm. Mr. Darcy is by far the passionate choice in the war between passion and responsibility. Elizabeth didn’t much like Darcy at the beginning of the novel but once he admits what he does for Elizabeth’s younger and older sisters, she realizes that he couldn’t possibly be a bad man. The conflict begins with Elizabeth’s parents.