Also the simile “like a silken knot,” the use of this simile is comparing her to something soft and fragile, therefore there is a theme of possessiveness and this shows that lower class women in the Elizabethan era were easily manipulated by higher class men. However, the “Lord” shows his commitment towards “Cousin Kate”. “I watched her walk along the lane,” in this quote the verb shows his concentration on Cousin Kate and implies that he is falling deeply in love with her at first sight. Therefore, there is a theme of falling in love at first sight not only in the poem “Cousin Kate” but also in Romeo and Juliet. In a dialogue with religious metaphors that figure Juliet as a Saint and Romeo as a pilgrim, he tries to convince Juliet to kiss her as it would be the only way in which Romeo can be free from
In the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare love is an important theme. In this play, Juliet and Romeo fall in love while Romeo is trying to get over Rosalind and Juliet is having an arranged marriage, their families are also feuding. In Shakespeare's play, Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet all have different views of love. Mercutio’s view of love is very humorous and not true, Romeo’s view of love is hopeless; he likes being in love, but does not like love itself. Lastly, Juliet’s view of love is logical; she does not follow love blindly.
Shakespeare uses language, structure and dramatic devices to convey and create the effect of strong emotions through his ambitious characters, which is similarly portrayed in laboratory with the narrator’s strong and bitter emotions towards her husband’s infidelity. These characters can also be compared to the narrator of Porphyria’s lover whose intense emotions of love become too overwhelming for him to handle. Both Shakespeare and Browning show Elizabethan society as patriarchal, where men were considered to be the leaders and women subservient. Women were regarded as the weaker sex not just in terms of physical strength, but also emotionally. Women were also depicted as kind and caring as well as being the perfect mother and housewife, on the other hand men were portrayed as brave, strong and loyal.
Katherine was Gaunt's mistress for about 25 years; when they married in 1396, they already had four children, including Henry's great-grandfather John Beaufort. Thus Henry's claim was somewhat tenuous: it was from a woman, and by illegitimate descent. In theory, the Portuguese and Spanish royal families had a better[citation needed] (as far as "legitimacy" is concerned) claim as descendants of Catherine of Lancaster, the daughter of John of Gaunt and his second wife Constance of Castile. Groat of Henry VII Gaunt's nephew Richard II legitimised Gaunt's children by Katherine Swynford by Letters Patent in 1397. In 1407, Henry IV, who was Gaunt's son by his first wife, issued new Letters Patent confirming the legitimacy of his half-siblings, but also declaring them ineligible for the throne.
How Jay Gatsby is Morally Ambiguous and its Significance In fictional literature, morally ambiguous characters cannot be characterized as purely good or purely evil. These complex characters play pivotal roles in many acclaimed novels, like the main character Jay Gatsby in F.S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. In this novel, the author portrays Gatsby as a morally ambiguous character whose pure desire for Daisy’s love may have progressively changed into immoral desires. Gatsby’s moral ambiguity helps express one of the novel’s critical themes: the corrupt American Dream of the 1920s, a false ideal that influenced people to futilely pursue dreams of wealth and status.
Her mother, Hannah, died five weeks after her birth. She and her sister, Elizabeth, were raised by Anthony and Ellen Drexel, their aunt and uncle. Her family was very wealthy because her father was an investment banker. Katharine and Elizabeth rejoined their father in 1860 when he remarried Emma, who taught the girls the importance of charity, and helping the poor. They distributed food and clothing to those who came to their house in need.
Gwendolen wants to marry a man called Ernest, not caring whether he possesses the qualities that comprise earnestness. This is evident as Gwendolen quickly forgives Jack’s deception and Lady Bracknell quickly forgets her earlier disapproval of Jack’s suitability for Gwendolen. Jack, the central character, is initially neither ‘Ernest’ nor ‘earnest’. Through forces at times beyond his control, he becomes both: a symbol of Victorian hypocrisy. Both Jack and Algernon lead a double life, known as ‘Bunburying’, the practice of creating an elaborate deception so as to misbehave whilst maintaining expected social standards of duty and responsibility, essentially, pretending to be earnest.
Lena Younger, (Mama) is a strong, religious woman whose generation "was worried about not getting lynched and getting to the north...and still having dignity too" (1177) has recently became the head of the Younger family due to the death of her husband. Her dream is to purchase a home for her family with the $10,000 she is receiving from her husband's life insurance. Mama "come from five generations of people who was slaves and share-croppers (1204) that taught her to take pride in herself and her family. She was raised in a generation where the men made the decisions for his family and the wife supported whatever that decision was. Shasta Gaughen indicates that it wasn't until the late 1950's and early 1960's that women started leaving the home and taking on roles other than just a homemaker.
Lanyer had an older sister, Angela, and two brothers, Lewis and Phillip, who died before they reached adulthood. Her father died when she was seven and was also buried in Bishopgate May 11, 1576. (3) Lanyer was the mistress of Henry Carey. She became pregnant at the age of 23 and was paid off by Carey. She then later married her cousin by marriage, Alphonso Lanyer.
Eleanor Roosevelt was born on Oct 12, 1884 in New York City into a wealthy, influential family. Eleanor had three younger siblings. One of which was a half brother due to an affair her father was having with a family employee. Both her parents died by the time she was ten years old. After living with her grandmother for several years, she Attended a finishing school in London, England at Allenswood Academy, where Eleanor was greatly influenced by Marie Souvestre, the headmistress.