Unrequited love is a kind of love that can't be reciprocated or returned, even though it's usually desired. In the novel, one of the major characters, Jay Gatsby, has this sort of romance towards his old flame, Daisy Buchanan. When he went off to war, even though Daisy promised to wait for him, she couldn't and married Tom. Gatsby was poor and Daisy wanted more, desperate for affection. When Gatsby returned home, he did whatever he could to win Daisy's heart back and earned money and riches.
Gatsby, trying his best to attain her love, fails as fate becomes a problem as Wilson murders Gatsby. After Gatsby’s death, Daisy pretends like nothing happened between them moving on with her life. As long as she still had her money she did not care what happened to him. Gatsby truly loved her but she never realized it because of her desire for lavish living and constant happiness. She does whatever she can to forget Gatsby so she can live rich and happy.
His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate were slipping precipitately from his control.”(p.119) Tom knows that Daisy only married him for his money and although she has developed feelings for him, he fears that if he leaves her for Myrtle she will turn to Gatsby. Tom may in fact feel threaten by how Gatsby has such an extravagant house and parties. Tom has been rich all his life and it isn’t until Gatsby shows up does he realize that he might lose Daisy. Because of this Tom tells Myrtle that he and Daisy cannot get a divorce because she is a Christian. It is evident that he is not happy being married to Daisy because he has an affair with Myrtle.
In the movie, Wiglaf only had a small role which doesn’t make sense because later on, Wiglaf becomes the King of Geats. Overall, there are many differences between the movie and the poem. The movie did not accurately portray the poem. It did not do the poem justice. If I had watched the movie beforehand, I would not have wanted to read the
Even though they have been together in the past, the fact that they are not together at the time of the story shows how their relationship must have failed and therefore love is seen as unobtainable. He seems to place Daisy so high on a pedestal that she is in a way already unreachable. He loves her so much, with so much passion, worked so hard to be up to her standards (bought the house, throws all these parties…). However, she has never turned up to any of his parties or shown any interest in a certain Gatsby showing that love is unobtainable. Jordan mentions to Nick that “he half expected her to wander into one of his parties but she never did, then he began asking people casually if they knew her”.
As such, the administrator of this system, Gradgrind, also lacks the ability to recognise emotion, and hence was unable to acknowledge his children’s pain and suffering until it was too late. Louisa’s inner qualities of compassion and love was neglected and repressed, which caused her to be miserable and left unable to deal with emotions. Gradgrind had strictly administered his utilitarian system upon Louisa “from the cradle”. Hence, she has experienced no other form of childhood. From the beginning, it is evident that Louisa had the capacity to love and express all her emotions freely.
The lavish parties he had to hide the emptiness in his life. He idolize Daisy liked he did the wealth. Gatsby never realize daisy was not impressed by his materialism Daisy was dealing with reality and Gatsby was dealing with turning his life into something he wanted it to be. And in the end Gatsby lost everything he was trying to gain at no matter what. The book is a revelation on how thing was in the roaring twenties and the attitude of rich people.
Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being” (64). Catherine is falling in love with Heathcliff and Hindley does not want this to happen. He hates Heathcliff and doesn’t want his sister to love him; he wants
John and Joan Durbeyfields marriage which is strongly shown throughout the novel, this was an example of Marriage for love. This is proven and is obvious as they both did not marry for wealth as the family own little and struggle to get by. Instead they have a big family full of love. The marriage between Angel and Tess was a perfect marriage at first, a marriage for love. Tess was marrying out of pure love and affection for this intelligent, freethinking man.
You are a great man.” Varinka kisses Byelinkov and is still happy that she can call herself his wife. Byelinkov is worried about the great deal of responsibility that comes with marrage, he does not think that he can provide her with all the things she needs. Varinka is not worried about that she is like a kid that has a favorite toy, she does not care if it is broken or dirty she just knows that she has a connection with it, and it is her best friend. In this situation Byelinkov is scared he cannot push through that so he