Madison Carroll Ms. Diana AP English Literature 1 November 2012 Assignment #3 Despairing Companionship “Modern Love,” a poetic sequence by George Meredith, describes a skeptical view regarding of modern love. Meredith’s devastating tone, complex similes and metaphors, and dark imagery convey a sad and regretful outlook on modern relationships. “Modern Love” is riddled with a tone of regret and heartache, making this modern love more like the opposite of love. The speaker says, “she wept with waking eyes” and her “strange low sobs” were “strangled mute.” The words describing this woman are full of grief, full of “vain regret.” Her husband is painfully aware of his wife’s sadness, through her reaction to “his hand’s light quiver by her head” and her sobs that were “dreadfully venomous to him.” The speaker’s worried tone shows that the husband wishes for his wife to be happy, but his actions of loving care and cautiousness do nothing to quell her tears. This view of modern love is hopeless, full of despair for both the man and his distraught wife.
Her life on a ranch in the 1930s, during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl is even worse because she is the only woman. Her life is surrounded my men who give her no respect. Throughout the story she is disrespected by them and after a series of events unfold, she ends up caught in a situation that she cannot escape. Curley’s wife is introduced into the book by the men as petty, cruel, and conceited. The men make her seem like she was a bad person, but in reality she was just lonely.
When someone cannot socialize or encounter the same surroundings, they begin to act very talkative and get aggravated easily. For example, when the narrator says, “I get unreasonable angry at John sometimes,” (2). The narrator gets aggravated at everything quickly, such as her husband, the house, her brother’s sister, and that yellow wallpaper. Especially when she says, “I never saw a worse paper in my life,” (3). She is really aggravated with being trapped in the room but projected her feelings toward the
The Bundrens have not form of civilized communication. They always end up disagreeing with each other. This has created intense barriers in their family life and has pushed away the possibility of being a normal family. In the novel, one realizes that Addie’s children resent each other and they are always competing for their mothers love. "If everybody wasn’t burning hell to get her there, with Cash all day long right under the window, hammering and sawing at that…" (6) Clearly from this statement, Jewel felt that his family was exaggerating the issue of Addie’s death.
From what you have read in chapter 4, how would you describe Amir? Amir is a complicated character whom can be either loved or hated by the reader at the same time. The reader feels sorry for Amir because he is longing for attention from his father, whom is not interested in his son's qualifications, but hates him for his treatment towards his best friend Hassan, whom is a loyal and faithful friend with unwavering attitude for him. In this novel, Amir faces with different situations and difficult decisions which make him act different for each one. He always feels guilty because of his violent birth, in which his mother died.
Here the use of imagery makes the theme of loneliness even more unpleasant. Her loneliness is further developed when she sees a boy talking Gaelic and she doesn’t understand it “mysterious and hateful to her Lowland ears”. This suggests that her loneliness is building into anger and frustration. The words ‘mysterious’ and ‘hateful’ shows that her loneliness has made her feel angry inside. This is when the theme begins to be least pleasant, when you get so lonely that you become dark and angry which makes things a
Analysis of “The Wall” When humans go through a very hard time we can have problems showing our feelings. Instead we lock them up in our self, and create a place inside us filled with hate, anger and guilt. This is also what happens to the main character in the film “The Wall”, Pink. Pink has felt a lot of pain in his life. He lost his father in war, his wife was him unfaithful, he had controlling teachers in school, and he had to deal with a very overprotective mother.
In the poem, a fourteen year old faces many critical issues, although in comparison to Holden’s they seem trivial. But, for the fourteen year old they are monumental resulting in insecurity, depression, and sadness much the same as that for Holden. The phrase “and momma’s in the bedroom with the door closed.” (Audre, 10-11, 22-23, 34-35) was constantly repeated in the poem reinforcing neglect. Both writers’ are trying to express the grief kids have when they don’t get any attention. When they suffer from a lack of attention it leads to loneliness and depression.
One minute joking and teasing and the next fighting and yelling. But the major issue throughout it all is the past events of the family members. Mary for instance is constantly fidgeting do to her self-consciousness, especially when her sons and husband what her closely. And there seems to be a reason behind it, because at sometimes Mary seems to be miles away in her own world. She also likes to bring up the past and memories of when she looked younger and much more beautiful than she is now.
His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children.” This demonstrates the fear his family feels towards him. Later in chapter three his anger gets him in trouble when he disobeys the village and beats his wife during the week of peace. This is demonstrated in the book when it states, “And when she returned he beat her very heavily. In his anger he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace.” After this event his fellow clansmen began to think less of him. Additionally, the novel continues to tell the story of Okonkwo and his family.