While Dimmsdale had his congregation and duty to God to follow His word. Both sides of the relationship are shown through Pearl. She has an extreme habit of being disobedient to her father and her mother, something that both Hester and Dimmsdale composed when they were disobedient to God, but she is also beautiful and loving just like the passion that her mother and father felt for each other. Pearl, is a highly ambiguous character in The Scarlet Letter. She is not only a disobedient and untamed elf, but also a beautiful, flower like child.
Bobby Griffith comes from a staunch Christian family. Somehow a young Bobby finds himself attracted to boys and confides that he is gay to older brother who goes and tell their mother. Mary is a deeply religious woman falls apart when she hears this. She tells Bobby that he is committing a sin therefore must change his ways by praying and going to church. No matter how Bobby prays and his family supporting him all the way all comes to no avail, he becomes dejected over his experiences in the church.
"The heart has its reasons, Where of reason knows nothing" -Pascal. Kate Chopin’s tragic tale Désirée’s Baby takes place in an antebellum southern setting in Louisiana, and like any timeless story it involves love and deception. There are many different expressions of love found in this story; there is unconditional love, superficial love, and love dependency. The emotion of love varies upon the fulfillment and motives of an individual as is seen by the main characters in this story. Monsieur and Madame Valmondé took in orphan Desiree and instantly and eternally cared for her as if she were their own child.
John Desmond claims, “The Grandmother considers herself a good Christian woman, i.e. a lady of fine manners and disposition, and a believer in Jesus to boot.” (Desmond). Her actions throughout the story tell another tale. The Grandmother tries to manipulate her son by showing him a newspaper article about an escaped convict heading in the same direction the family is planning to travel. Her prejudice side shows through on their trip when she shares stories about a little nigger boy.
"Sure." Unfortunately Krebs is too caught up in his own world to be his sister’s older brother and to show her why this mindset she has is wrong. There comes a point where both of Krebs’s parents are fed up with his laziness and his unwillingness to do anything with his life that his mother sits him down and tries to approach him in a more of a religious way. She speaks of God and how much they love him and want the best for him. "I'm your mother," she said.
Anney began to seek happiness and fulfillment in another man, pushing aside her daughters’ need for love and affection. Bone becomes confused, straddling the concepts of love and happiness because she knew she too wanted to know love from a man, and have a fatherly figure in her life. She wanted someone to show her and her mother what that was like. When Anney started to date Glen Waddell everything appeared to be going well. Despite this, Bone and everyone else in the Boatwright family were still skeptical about him as they began to notice his short-temper.
Which give the characters an edge, and makes them unique. The three Mrs. W’s along side share the same view on the importance of love, and often stress the fact. This is why they saved Meg from entering the dark thing. “The gentle words, the feeling that this beast would be able to love her no matter what she said or did.” Lapped Meg in warmth and peace, she felt a delicate touch of tentacle to her cheek, as tender as her mothers kiss.” The three Mrs. W’s must have an explanation in doing this deed, and it is obvious that the three Mrs. W’s share the same compassion for one another. Also shown is that love exceeds darkness.
The story “Beauty and the Beast” is a classic fairytale, known to almost every child. But in this essay I will try to show that this simple story has a much deeper meaning. Contemporary writer Angela Carter used the idea of a girl who is forced to live with a beast and gave it another dimension; she modernizes the heroine’s quest. When reading the two stories, I have been noticing some major conflicts between the main characters and their surroundings. There is a remarkable relation of love and pain in the conflicts.
Byelinkov is not the type of person to take praise very well while Varinka is willing to give him all he needs. All of these show what kind of persons Byelinkov and Varinka are, it shows how they over compensate each other’s personalities. Byelinkov says that “Pride can be an imperfect value”(981) While Varinka responds with “It isn’t pride. It’s the truth. You are a great man.” Varinka kisses Byelinkov and is still happy that she can call herself his wife.
Martin Luther King Jr. defines this love as agape, or “a disinterested love in which the individual seeks not his own good, but the good of his neighbor…it begins by loving others for their sakes…it’s a love seeking to preserve and create community” (King 19). Harper Lee demonstrates her “love story” in To Kill A Mockingbird by showing that through the problem of ignorance and its resulting prejudice, the solution in combatting these two problems is with compassionate understanding. The citizens of Maycomb are so consumed by ignorance that they can’t accept white people having anything to do with blacks, let alone having an affair with them. In this quote, Dolphus Raymond explains to Jem, Scout, and Dill why he “drinks” out of a paper bag outside of the courthouse, “I try to give ‘em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.