William Shakespeare is a renounced poet and playwright; he is most famous for his creative linguistic devices and his ability to incorporate many significant and relevant themes into his writing. Romeo and Juliet, being one of Shakespeare’s most credited plays, utilizes the themes of love, hatred, conflict and anger. Shakespeare successfully portrays all these themes through strong emotions. Similarly Robert Browning conveys strong feeling such as hatred, betrayal and love which becomes overt. Browning’s poem ‘The Laboratory’ is about a scorned woman’s desired to kill her lover’s mistress, and any other woman he may have had an affair with.
The Scarlet Letter as a Love Story The Scarlet Letter is a story that can be perceived in many ways; it is a story of revenge, a story of sin, but most important it is a story of love. Chillingworth’s characters whole body and mind is consumed by revenge and his pure and sheer hatred towards Reverend Dimmesdale. In the novel there is sin all around the story’s main plot was sin, but that’s not the only sin that is committed. Evert Duyckinck wrote that “The Scarlet Letter is a psychological romance. It is a tale of remorse, a study of character in which the human heart is anatomized, carefully, elaborately, and with striking poetic and dramatic power” (Duyckinck 181).
“Reason versus passion” is one of the main pillars of the literary movement known as Neoclassicism and Racine’s Phaedra is one of the most famous and representative works that came out during this period (17th century and beginning of 18th) for it explains how love and passion can be dangerous for the life of human beings. The play shows evidence that Phaedra looses her reason when hit by Eros’ curse, and falls in love with Hippolytus, her stepson. When thinking ‘passionately’ she can’t see ‘the truth’, namely, that being in love with Theseus’ son is wrong. This unreciprocated love leads to Phaedra’s irrational behavior, such as to convince Oenone, her nurse, to accuse Hippolytus of abusing her, to prevent Theseus from finding out about her love for his son. This ultimately leads to Hippolytus’ death, because he doesn’t want to put shame on his father for having abused his wife.
In the play you can see familial, friendly, unrequited, true, and sexual love. All the different types of love and the relationships that came with it are the cause of the tragic ending of Othello the Moor and the gentle Desdemona. The first type of love that you see in the play is family love. The relationship between Brabantio and Desdemona in the play is very strained seeing as how she ran off to get married without his consent, which back in the day was a big no-no. You can still see the love that they have for each other when Desdemona says “To you I am bound for life and education; / My life and education both do learn me/ How to respect you.
christina delahys November 8, 2012 Delores English 114 Violence out of Love In the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, the characters Beli, Oscar and Lola are all confronted with indescribable violence when trying to find love due to the curse of the “fuku”. The brutal violence that occurs within the novel easily relates back to the curse caused by the love of Abelard for his daughter by betraying Trujillo’s demands. Each character throughout the novel experiences great hardships and obstacles while trying to find true love. Although Beli, Oscar and Lola constantly attempt to find love, they always fail to do so with many instances resulting in violence. The well-known ‘fuku’ curse is the sole reason love is unattainable and violence is abundant in the Cabral family.
This was obviously his main motive for all the murders and to justify all of his actions he uses the throne. He feels he needs it. At first he borrows Lady Macbeth's emotions but in the end they become his emotions. All he does in the whole novel are govern by passion and passion is one of the scariest things there are. So in the end the audience knows, or should realize, that all good Literature uses the character's emotions to evoke the audience's emotion.
Duffy structures the poem like a monologue so the reader can track Havisham’s descent into inhumanity, as she descends further into madness. It begins with “beloved sweetheart” presenting the potential off love to someone wanting a “male corpse”. The monologues track the progress of the characters as they descend further into inhumanity. Each piece shows loss of humanity through the influence of external forces and how they are partly responsible for the characters’ loss of humanity. Shakespeare uses Lady Macbeth’s persuasion and the witches’ charm, both in act 1 to show the influence of others.
In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, she shows the audience how Victor Frankenstein is a Romantic character. The audience sees how he is Romantic mainly because of his self-centeredness. Mary Shelley shows how Victor is a Romantic character by using setting, his character, and the major conflict in the story to show how he is extremely self-centeredness, which leads him to an isolated wretched life. Shelley's use of the conflict in the story brings out Victor's self-centeredness, which is a Romantic characteristic. The main conflict begins when Victor's brother is murdered and is blamed on a Justine.
Writing task, English literature / Explore the ways in which the difficulties of love are presented in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering heights’. The difficulties of love saturate the pages of Emily Bronte’s deep, dark, gothic novel “Wuthering heights” and Shakespeare’s bright and bold “Romeo and Juliet”. These two tales are undoubtedly, two of the greatest love stories ever to be written and yet the protagonists love causes unprecedented degrees of suffering and trauma. Throughout this essay, I am going to analyse and explore the many similarities and differences that exist between both stories. The time scales detailing the difficulties of love in these two pieces of literature are completely miles apart.
Despite the general opinion that “Hamlet” contains the weakest women in Shakespeare’s works, the unraveling of the main plot can only be attributed to them. The first case in which we see woman as the catalyst of the play is with Gertrude being one of the main motivations for Claudius murdering his brother. Once Hamlet died, Claudius and Gertrude quickly exchanged wedding vows, maintaining the stability of Denmark during the unexpected death of King Hamlet. Hamlet continuously alludes that he knows what Claudius has done, and seeks to make him feel remorseful for his actions. He achieves this goal through a reenactment of Hamlet’s death, and the exchange of everlasting love between ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Gertrude’, played by the actors at Elsinore.