He is saying that is might not be wise for loving him, but he swears it won’t be stupid for he is going to be “horribly” in love with her. The word choice of “horribly” emphasizes a sense of awkwardness because he doesn’t know the first thing when it comes to love. It also gives a bit of that comical side to Benedick’s character, even in the name of love, he still can’t forget about the competition between him and Beatrice.
No matter how “inexplicably drawn to [the downright]” men she may be, her character is one that almost mirrors her grandfather’s. The incomprehensible attraction that Vanessa had for the “downright” men was the individual effort from her to be able to choose her own identity. Upon comprehension of her futile attempt to run away from what she is destined to be, she questions her personal choice and “[wonders] if [she will] ever catch up to [being like Uncle Dan].” Vanessa recognizes the distance between her true nature and the character that she seeks to choose. Her understanding and ability to feel what her family feels and to be able extend their sorrows and misery to her is what allows her to realize that her identity is an inherited character that she emulates from her
Similarly Brick Lane looks at how Nanzeen feels as though she belongs when she takes part in an affair, a relationship with obvious difficulties. Her longing to belong is so dire that she ignores the expectations of society and of her family and chooses to be with a man that allows her to conclude that ‘there are
She cries out in tears that “[John] loved [her], and whatever sin it is, [he] loved [her] yet!” and she pleads for John to “pity [her]” (Miller 24). Abigail is reluctant to acknowledge that their relationship is over; she desires the physical love and lust because she wants more notice. Whether it be negative or not, she still wants
The most powerful image of the poem comes when she says; “it’s finally having a man reach out for you then caving in around his fingers” (17-20). This demonstrates wanting or needing any kind of love you can get and staying attached to it and despite abuse. In this quote the speaker not only alludes to finding someone but also domestic abuse. The narrators desire to fit in and be socially accepted comes at a price of losing her self image as well as her control. She is not comfortable in her skin and that leads to her dependence on others to fill that void.
It intensifies so much that Gabriel admits he’s restraining himself from his urge to “crush her body against his, [and] overmaster her. (177)” As he reminisces on his earlier wild, passionate, secret love life with his wife (173-7), it becomes apparent that those memories and the possibility of rekindling such intensity are anchors to Gabriel’s sense of fulfillment and freedom. When his wife tells him of her past love, and how she may still love him (178), Gabriel’s anchors are shattered. The realization that he is not to his wife, what she is to him, crushes him, invalidating all previous memories of what he thought was the greatest time of both of their
Williams also presents Laura’s character in need of self-love which is becoming fragile due to the world around her pressuring her to conform. Despite this Laura, herself, is shattered like the glass pieces she collects, by her brother, Tom. The need for human control highlights the fragility of love in Othello’s marriage with Desdemona, the parental love in ‘The Glass Menagerie’ and the idea of protection in ‘Atonement’. This is because; there is a constant power struggle within society’s pressure and the Renaissance norms, thus making the characters susceptible to the destruction of their own happiness. At the start of Othello’s soliloquy, in Act III scene iii, his sense of self-doubt is expressed by his love for Desdemona ‘if’ doubting Iago’s accusations claiming ‘men should be what they seem’.
The faulty love in “Lessons of Love” In the short story “Lessons of Love” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, the young girl is an excellent example of unreliable love, people who abuse love, take advantage of love, and people who feel so intimated about their love they are willing to do anything for them, but they don’t know if they are going to get the same thing back from them. Obsession, love, and misery cannot lead you to the person that you want unless they feel the same way for you. The young girl is obsessed with the boy she has a crush on and the guy she meets changes her in a variety of ways and the girl has become so obsessed and desperate for her for the guy that she becomes untrue to her family members. First, the girl transforms in a way desiring to see the boy she has crush on every single day, she does that by basically admiring and always taking glances at him. The boy the young girl has a crush on works at a local grocery store right across the street, the young girl persuades and forces her family to eat more so, she can shop at the that store more frequently, so she can catch a glimpse of his beauty: “Week after week I wandered up and down the aisles, taking furtive glances at the stock room in the back, breathlessly hoping to see my prince.
I can just tell I like it. That I would like it. It’s very small…” However the novel, from the very beginning sows seeds of doubt of the strength of the relationship through the insecurities held by Mandras and the doubts in Pelagia’s answer to her lover’s proposal: “‘Of course I’ll marry you,’ she said quietly”. Similarly, The Great Gatsby hints towards a bleaker reality that underlines the passion shared between Daisy and Gatsby. The slow and painful decline out of ‘love’ for Pelagia, mirrored by Mandras’ growth in his desire for her creates strong tension between the two characters in chapter 20 ‘The Wild Man of the Ice’.
Micheal Drayton’s ‘Sonnet 61’ seems to be an one-sided conversation between two former lovers. The persona- a man who us making an extremely difficult decision trying his best not to cave in- seems to still have perpetual feelings for his ex-lover. One part of him is not willing to give her any more of anything because he had showered so much love on her and feels like he has gotten nothing back. However, the power of his other part’s affection is so great that the thought of parting itself brings him to the brink of collapse. Drayton’s theme is typical Petrarchan a lover's passion and pangs for his mistress who is not responsive and love.