In both The Nights Tale and The Millers Tale by Chaucer, female beauty is expressed dominantly. Also in some aspects both poems could be referred to as exploring superficial love, due to the men being overwhelmed with the beauty of women. This is displayed within The Nights Tale as Palamon questions whether the woman before him is “womman or goddesse” after seeing her across the yard. Thus this demonstrates Chaucers use of superficial love as Palamon presumes her as being more than human only dues to her beauty. Furthermore, elements of superficial love are also in The Millers Tale, as Absolon loves Alisoun due to her “goddess corpus”.
2) How does Romeo describe the woman he loves in Scene 1? Refer to things like word choice. Connotation, tone figures of speech, and so on. Romeo describes the woman he loves by saying: ‘’She hath Dian’s wit.”- Here Romeo is comparing her to the Roman goddess Diana because she is chaste and does not want to marry. “O she is rich in beauty, only poor that when she dies, with beauty dies her store.” – Romeo is saying that she is beautiful, but it is a shame that she will not pass her beauty down to anyone because she does not want to have children.
She became frightened that her beauty might be too tempting. So she would do things such as rubbing pepper on her face to make it all blotchy and red to make herself look less pretty. Rose’s parents were very poor so she was always trying to support them. Her parents only wanted one thing from her and that was to get married but she just wouldn’t. Her love for Jesus was too great and every time someone talked about him she would just sparkle.
This shows that she is only with him for his money and power. When Daisy gave birth to Pammy she said “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”(Fitzgerald 21).She implies here that the world is no place for a woman and all she can do is hope to survive through beauty rather than brains. However during the reunion Gatsby is still blinded by his dream. Even though Daisy isn’t the same as he remembers.
In the short story “A Wedding-Dress” the main character is a woman named Lena Schwartz. This woman is excited, because she is about to get married to Sam Hilton. The reader discovers that Miss Schwartz is a people pleaser and that she does not take responsibility for her actions. Lena must learn from the mistakes that she is making before she can be truly happy with her life. Miss Schwartz only thinks about making other people happy, because she is afraid of them becoming angry, or leaving.
Nichols uses a essential of life "water" to introduce what the poem will be like: her describing how much Nichols needed her. Next Larkin says "Not the usual stuff about being beautiful" He does this as if to say that he is not going to say anything about being perfect "the usual stuff" (informal tone suggests he intends it to make the poem quite plain.). However he does wish that if one of these exceptional qualities shine through, she should have a happy life like that "And should it prove possible, well, you're a lucky girl." (once again the use of the informal "well" furthers the sense of plainness.) Nichols however uses a very different tone, she uses words such as "pull", "mantling", "warm" and "replenishing" to say that her mother was essential to how she is now.
When Connie’s mother would reprimand and tell her, “Stop gawking at yourself, who are you? You think you’re so pretty” (Oates 563). Connie would feel as if her mother was jealous of her. In Zlatan Krizan, and Omesh Johar’s article “Envy Divides the Two Faces of Narcissism.” The writers assert, “Envy has long been considered a central feature of narcissistic personalities” (1415). Connie was living a double life where she would act and dress differently around her family and the people she wanted to paint a good image for but when she was out with her friends and they’d go to the mall
Roxanne is a very attractive woman who is looking for someone to love her for who she is and not just because of her looks. At first she meets Christian and begins to develop a crush on him. Christian asked Cyrano to write letters to her because he can't write poetry well. Cyrano, being the good friend he is, writes letters for Christian and Roxanne falls in love with him, not knowing that Christian is not even writing them. This makes Cyrano upset because he doesn't want someone else taking credit for his poetry that he means towards Roxanne.
This shows us, that Shakespeare, unlike so many renaissance writers, isn’t a complete romantic and idealist when it comes to love; he is realistic and pragmatic. However, he goes on to suggest that unlike her physical appearance, her happy disposition will not fade and she will remain beautiful to him, “but thy eternal summer shall not fade”. Emphasizing the importance of falling in love with somebody’s character, which will not fade, in contrast to their appearance. Shakespeare never actually describes his beloved, he instead compares her to classically beautiful images, like summer, heaven and calls her fair. This could imply that she wasn’t physically ‘perfect’ but it was instead her personality that reminded him of a summer’s day.
Jazmyne De-Heer Ms.Petrone EDG 2D1 Tuesday February, 28, 2012 “Lessons of Love” In the short story “Lessons of Love” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, the narrator is not in love with boy but instead obsessed with him because she only loved him for his good looks. In the beginning of the story, the narrator explains the appearance of her secretive love: “I first saw him in the hall…He looked extraordinarily like a young Marlon Brando – down to the ironic little smile” (36). The narrator has nothing to say about his personality, which is mainly a reason why a person would fall in love with somebody. The narrator shows the readers that the boy is a very attractive male and she has stared at every feature of his face to know that he looks like a young Marlon Brando down to just his “ironic smile”. The narrator