Maria / Juliet Female Lead. Modern-day Capulet. Both are forced into engagements with men they do not desire. Maria's survival at the end of the story (despite her threats to commit suicide with the same gun that killed her lover) departs from Shakespeare's ending wherein Juliet willingly commits suicide with Romeo's dagger. Chino / Paris The Embittered Fiancée.
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.
In Jack’s case he first seems paranoid when Wendy hears him screaming and comes to his aid only to find that he had a nightmare about killing his family. In Macbeth you can first tell that he is paranoid when he is in his chambers pacing, scared that he will lose his crown. Although Macbeth turns to murder a lot quicker than Jack, they both resort to murder in the end. With Macbeth murdering King Duncan and Jack trying to kill his family, it is clear that they both are mentally unstable. Another strong connection between the two, are the hallucinations that they suffer.
Abigail is truly insane in this play. She is insanely infatuated with John Proctor a married man. Everything she does is for the purpose that one day she might be with John Proctor. So because of this she throws herself at John every opportunity that she got. Like a normal man that has an immensely gorgeous girl in her late teens thrown at you, John Proctor fell in sin and committed adultery and had sexual relations with Abigail.
When a person is shot from a pistol, they get shot fast and it hits them hard. Kate Chopin substitutes cupid's arrow for a pistol shot because wants her audience to visualize that the Aubignys fell in love fast and fell hard. Imagery is shown in this quote too because when Chopin writes "Pistol Shot " (Chopin Page 1), the Pistol can be imagery for love being a very terrifying thing. If someone were to see a gun they would immediately begin to panic or get scared. Chopin uses a pistol in this quote because she wants the audience to know that how the Aubignys fell in love so fast can be scary.
Love is a common shift in mood caused by Maria and tony. The shift to love was showed in the dress shop scene as Maria talks about her never ending love for tony. The rumble was the biggest event in the movie, as a result of the rumble Bernardo and riff both end up getting stabbed. As if this weren’t enough of a shift Maria finds out that tony was the one who stabbed bernardo her own brother. Love once again appears as Maria forgives tony and still wants to be with him.
Brom Bones is possessive of Katrina Van Tassel in both versions. In the book, Bones throws Ichabod Crane out after he proposes to Katrina. Similarly, in the movie, Bones threatens to kill Ichabod like he did Palmer. In both the movie and the book, a jealous Brom Bones pretends to be the Headless Horseman in order to drive Ichabod out of Sleepy Hollow. Another point of similarity is the humor.
Hüma Saruhan 12.06.2012 Gender Representations: Analysis of Crying Game The Crying Game is a movie with a story about the relationship between a hitman who was in charge of killing a hostage with whom he builds a friendship, and a girl that the hostage had a special romantic relationship. The hitman, Ferguson, promises to the hostage, Jody, that he will go find that girl and tell her that Jody was thinking of her all the time. Ferguson finds the girl but after spending some time with her, he falls for her without knowing that her biological sex is not really female. The moment he realizes this truth about Dil, Ferguson behaves in a different way than he used to do, although he does all he can in order to protect her from his dangerous ex colleagues, especially from Judy, another female character of the movie. The movie points out the common stereotypes of social roles of the woman-man binomial and their accepted behaviors, according to their bodies and genders.
Love is a healthy emotion between two people that comes in time, after investing feelings, positive and negative experiences all along. Stalking is a type of obsessed love, manifested by fixed ideas and an irresistible desire to make a determined act. Obsession, in the beginning it may feel a lot like love, it makes the heart race and one can’t think of almost anything but the other person. Therefore, obsession is an unhealthy emotion and usually suffocates other person, invading her or his privacy. There are at least five stalkers categories based on motivation and context.
Macbeth was a noble Thane and a loyal hero before, but his desire is aroused by the vicious witches. He even has inner conflict and hesitates for committing the treason, but he cannot resist the desire and the urge of his wife, ‘I’m settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.’ Macbeth finally murders the king just like what his wife asks him to do. ‘I go and it is done.’ He says, ‘The bell invites me. Hear it not, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.’ The conflict between Macbeth’s desire and King Duncan encourages Macbeth to murder the king and brings the chaos to his country because the villainy he makes breaks the chain of nature levels.