Henry and Roy who both tells a story of their idealistic past, can be grouped together as the ones, who believes in the existence of idealistic love which tends to be fanciful like their own childhood memories. Roy claims that his love is equivalent to “Mozart’s love” which characterises the romance with happy endings. Henry’s depiction of his mother’s devotion has the sense of artificiality, and it’s almost like as if he forces the story upon himself to avoid other alternatives. However unlike Roy Henry understands the contradicting reality in regards to commitment and fidelity “everyone blames women but I forgive them, if they change their love a thousand times a day.. but I think it’s the necessity of women’s heart” Henry is aware and accepts the flaw in the concept of absolute faithfulness. Ruth, who suffers from her inability to distinguish reality from illusion, was a victim of a horrible relationship.
In “A Rose for Emily” and “The Rocking Horse Winner” Faulkner and Lawrence present the theme of love in a twisted manner. Although both of these stories are about love, they are about two very different kinds of love: Emily Grierson is in a romantic relationship with Homer Baron, while Paul’s love is maternal for his mother. Both stories do however, give a macabre view of love, as they each end with the deaths of the protagonists. Although both stories illustrate love as a source of pain and anguish, it is Emily that presents a more twisted view of love, as she is in control of the decisions that she makes in her life. Conversely, Paul’s story is actually tragic in nature.
Questions on the text: Streetcar Named Desire 1. Stella and Stanley have a relationship built on lies. It may seem that Stella looks up to Stanley and loves him very much – that is very true – but Stanley is abusive, he is selfish and treats Stella as if she is a slave. Stella is neither fully committed to the relationship but neither is she submissive. Stanley doesn’t contribute much to the relationship except showing his love through physical contact.
Many people view infatuated love as irresponsible, immature and blind love built solely on unreasonable passion, which could simply stem from a sexual attraction. Empty love occurs when a person is solely looking for a commitment with no interest in intimacy or passion. This could simply be a result of not wanting to be alone in the world. It is built on the promise that the couple will maintain their relationship in the future. Fatuous love is caused from the combination of passion and commitment, without a sense of intimacy.
Curley's Wife is a fascinating character that is often not given the credit she deserves. She is a troubled, unhappy young woman who likely tried to escape an unsastisfying or troublesome childhood by naively marrying Curley. First off, pay attention to her name. She has none! Thi is not an accident, but a very symbolic gesture on the part of Steinbeck.
Samuel Irving Bellman is one among many of the critics who have mixed emotions about the story. After first reading the novel in 1943, Bellman found it to be flat, unappealing, and unimaginative. He felt the characters were lifeless and hard to imagine as players in a human drama. A major drawback of his is Wharton’s love-hate triangle between Ethan, Zeena, and Mattie. From a positive perspective, “Ethan Frome is important to Wharton’s canon because it represents her confident coming of age as an artist…It has gained its place as a masterpiece of American literature for its style: it is brilliant in its economy, clarity, and structure (Bellman).” Here, he is explaining that Ethan Frome deserves to be a classic for its style, although he is not personally fond of the book.
The two develop a magnetic bond which is tested by two love interests: Noé, the boy next door; and Gabrielle, the sometimes annoying neighbor and hopeless former lover of Lionel. The love Lionel and Josephine share is a strangely close relationship. At Josephine’s age, girls should be dying to escape from their father; however, the lack of that desire makes their relationship curious. The relationship Josephine and her father share make it difficult for her to move on with her life, as she is seemingly glued to her father. In the film 35 Shots of Rum, Claire Denis uses a number of subtle hints to illustrate the relationship between Lionel and Josephine as being formed from the residue of Josephine’s Electra complex: the idea that Josephine has a sexual attraction to her father.
When the story went back and told how her and her husband met and came to marry it told an awful lot about who Edna was. They were not totally in love and the author stated, “The violent opposition of her father and sister Margaret to Edna marrying a Catholic” (Chopin. 1899) played a part in them getting married. Edna enjoyed the love Leonce showered upon her, but married out of spite in a sense. Edna was described as a “woman not given to confidences.” (Chopin, 1899) This was not an uncommon emotion nor were many of the other feelings she expressed all over the book.
This novel explores these different sexual behaviors and adds a gothic twist. In the novel Mina can be seen as the "new woman", although she is the passive wife of Jonathan she is very much capable of looking after herself unlike her best friend Lucy. We can identify the wife role when Jonathan says "Memo get recipe for Mina" showing a clear gender status and dominance between Jonathan and Mina. This gender difference is contrasted when Mina states in her journal that she "has been practicing shorthand very assiduously" alongside her school assistant job, this shows Mina thriving for a life of her own and even more when she "keeps up with Jonathans Studies" enforcing this new woman appearing in Victorian times. Stoker uses Mina as a device he marks her out as the ideal partner in matrimony, and as Mary Shelley Frankenstein uses multiple first person narrator however Stoker has included female’s speakers which gives a different and more socially equal effect.
When he hears Terri’s story about her ex-husband he is quick to correct her saying that it was not love her ex-husband had for her. Terri, Mel McGinnis’s wife, believes love to be something entirely different than what Mel believes. As Terri begins to explain what she thinks love is, she explains the story of her past with her ex- husband named Ed. She describes her relationship with Ed as being very abusive and violent, yet he still loved her. Ed supposedly loved her so much that he in a furious passion beat her and dragged her around his house like