Both texts revel the tension between idealism and reality. Analyse and compare how this shared idea is represented in the texts and evaluate the extent to which it is impacted by the composers’ context. When does our attainable dream of love, become an idealised fantasy? The universal conceptualization of love is a subject explored throughout history and literature. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s sonnet sequence Sonnets from the Portugeuse, explores the experence of idealised love in the patriarchal confines of the Victorian era, juxtaposed against F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, which comments on the unatanability of idealised love due to the corruption of the American dream.
Elizabeth Browning presents an idealistic and an optimistic view towards love and hope through sonnets I, XIV and XLIII. Although composed in two different time frames, both texts have been influenced by personal contexts in their representation of love and hope. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Fitzgerald’s texts both explore the necessity of love in order to accomplish in life, but are hopeful in achieving their respective love but are contrastingly represented. The sole foundations for Elizabeth’s sonnets arise from her ambivalent and evolving attitude towards the patriarchal values of her society and her father’s repressive restraint on love through his extreme conservatism. She however challenges and subverts the dominant patriarchal paradigms and tropes of her society as she searches for the solution to her descent into morbid conviction.
Viewpoints represented of belonging vary amongst different people, societies and cultures. Achieving a sense of belonging is based upon the conception as to feel accepted based on the perception of self or of others. For each individual a achieving a sense of belonging often arises from their ability to overcome the societal expectations and form their own personal identity. Through the stylistic and linguistic techniques of Emily Dickinson in her poems I gave myself to him¬, I died for beauty but it was scarce, and The saddest noise, the sweetest noise; as well as the techniques of Kate Chopin in her short story The Story of an Hour my understanding of belonging is developed to grasp the idea that people experience a sense of belonging in varied and complex ways. Individuals often establish a connection of belonging through groups and institutions.
She portrays her personal voice through the use of sonnets, specifically Petrarchan. It is commonly used by males to woo their unattained love. Both composers portray love as idealistic, however it is interfered with by life. It is a universal theme shown through the different time periods. Nevertheless, Elizabeth Barrett Browning advocates that the strength of love can help overcome the obstacles.
He explores the deep love of music throughout the novel and the bonds it creates with relationships between characters, also importantly how music provided another chance for Keller to live, the way music forms a love hate relationship between characters in the novel, and finally the way music expresses character’s feelings. In Maestro music formed many different relationships throughout the novel. Paul’s parents, Nancy and John, shared a common thread of music but that was where there similarities ended because ‘apart from music they had little in common.’ The main relationship formed throughout the novel due to music is the relationship between Paul and Herr Keller. Keller was Paul’s music teacher in the novel, and although Keller teaches Paul more about life than music during their lessons, it’s those music lessons that bind the relationship between Paul and Keller. It’s the relationships formed by music within Maestro that change each other’s lives.
Both Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire are great literary works. Both the novel and the play have controversial aspects. Analyzing the similarities and differences in The Color Purple and A Streetcar Named Desire reflects the fact that both authors, while dealing with different points-of-view, tones, and forms/structures, achieve similar purposes in emphasizing the theme of personal growth in the characters of Celie and Blanche, whether it be positive or negative, in the two respective male-dominated worlds of each literary work. Both Alice Walker and Tennessee Williams utilize the literary device of character development to show the personal growth of Celie and Blanche throughout the works. Walker and Williams both use indirect characterization to show how Celie and Blanche grow as people throughout the works.
Cosi The particular aspect of love that is the focus of the play is fidelity; the notion of faithfulness, commitment and loyalty. The play explores many aspects of love, the characters present slightly different perspectives, some final about their positions from the start and others change or develop differing perspectives. This concept is explored through the individual characters Lucy and Lewis. Using the technique of characterisation, Nowra is able to present the idea of ‘free love’ negatively to the audience through the character Lucy. Who strongly endorses the idea that love is an indulgence, “After bread, shelter, equality, health, procreation, money comes maybe love” .
Romantic artists, musicians, and writers responded to the social, political, and economic changes in the 1800s by conveying their feelings and views in the work they were creating. The Romantic musicians of this time admired the ability music had to communicate deeper understandings without words. It created a level of passion and power that could not be reached by others. An important musician of this time was Beethoven. His music was alive with
However, as he continues to perform with the patients finds for himself that love is most definitely imperative for humans. Love is one of the main themes of ‘Cosi’. The play suggests many different aspects of love by giving us the different opinions of love from the main characters. Ultimately throughout the play the changed values that Lewis has on love, the faith that Cherry has towards Lewis and the loyalty that Julie displays towards her lover shapes Nowra’s views on love. Love must consist of not
“Love is not so important these days”… “What planet are you from?” love means something different to each character in the play. Discuss In Nowra’s play “Cosi” meaning of love is explored and challenged by the views of different characters. Each character has a clear definition of their personal and distinct understanding of what love and fidelity means. This assists in the notion of love beholding abundance of paradoxical nature. The characters also endorse the importance of love that is practical and realistic, this aspect of the play is illustrated mostly by the mental patients who have issues with distinguishing reality from their illusions.