In the play you can see familial, friendly, unrequited, true, and sexual love. All the different types of love and the relationships that came with it are the cause of the tragic ending of Othello the Moor and the gentle Desdemona. The first type of love that you see in the play is family love. The relationship between Brabantio and Desdemona in the play is very strained seeing as how she ran off to get married without his consent, which back in the day was a big no-no. You can still see the love that they have for each other when Desdemona says “To you I am bound for life and education; / My life and education both do learn me/ How to respect you.
From the beginning of Cosi Nick and Lucy seem to shape Lewis’ views politically as well as his moral beliefs surrounding “free love.” Working with the patients changes Lewis’ outlook on fidelity and pulls him away from his friend’s mentalities. As a result Nick and Lucy attempt to pressure Lewis to go to “moratorium meetings,” to do a “piece of theatre that is meaningful such as Brecht” and to choose between “the funny farm” or their “radicalisation of the nation.”This highlights how Roy is not the only manipulator in the play. When Lucy questions Lewis’ priorities and his choice to do an opera about love, “an emotional indulgence for the privileged few,” Lewis highlights how “love and fidelity are important things.” His rejection of Nick and Lucy’s beliefs, further strengthens how their manipulations of Lewis have been ultimately unsuccessful. Therefore Nowra shows the audience how even though a person may try to manipulate other characters in Cosi depending on the matter they are passionate about, it may not always
Important things. Now all you can talk about is reactionary drivel like Cosi Fan Tutte. LEWIS: It’s about important things – like love and fidelity.” (Lucy, Lewis, Act II Sc (ii) pg 70). This line tells us that Lewis does find love important in his life, despite what Lucy says. When Lucy admits that she’s sleeping with Nick, Lewis is stunned and begins to quote the play Cosi Fan Tutte “Woman’s constancy is like an Arabian Phoenix.
She refers to novelist Lou Salome and her loathing in giving up intellectualism for love and sex, portrayed through her inability to recall details of kissing a famous philosopher. H. then juxtaposes Salome to Saint Therese who spoke passionately about loving forever – she notes extreme difference between disinterest of apparent “mistress of Europe” and extreme romanticism of other in love with God, and ask for some of balance between them; “shall we meet half way between sanctity and liberation?” persona then finds she does not need to open collection as she is not upset, instead she understands that “this farewell’s left me joyful” in certainty that her lover will return to her: ‘my lover will come again to me”. Here unlike beginning of poem, she projects power, the insight brings her serenity, symbolised by image of her moving into “peaceful sunset” feeding her geese, pastoral scene where she is dominant force. Her reference to “latter children” and sunset contrast her youth at poems opening, term “afterglow” is implicitly sexual and is clear this afterglow is different to that of her youth – poem clearly shows her maturity and change. The audience reflect that while the poem is superficially about a farewell to a
The reality that the audience are watching characters rehearse the opera ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ causes the audience to reflect, upon their own ideas about love, fidelity and whether being loyal to a political idea is more important than being loyal to a person. This device has mirrored ‘real’ events that have occurred with Lewis’s relationship with Lucy. When speaking to Julie he mentions how he and Lucy “sometimes talk about commitment” and how Lucy’s dislike for “talking about love” due to her political importance, has consequently changed Lewis’s understanding of Love. When Lewis asks is Lucy is having an affair with Nick she says it’s only a fling and she’s only ‘having sex’ with Nick and she’s actually ‘sleeping with’ Lewis. This distinguishes between the dysfunctional couple’s morals and beliefs.
In Cyrano de Bergerac outer beauty is seen as a priority in the beginning of the play, Cyrano has the need to push his not appealing appearance to the world and defends himself with his quick wit when he is offended. Even though Cyrano has an exquisite inner beauty he seems to only care about his exterior . Christian on the other hand is beautiful but does not have a personality nor the ability to express his feelings. Cyrano and Christian battle for Roxane's love throughout the play and Roxane decides inner beauty is greater than outer beauty although she felt outer beauty was more important in the beginning. In Roxanne C.D.
Her newfound love with Robert browning made her feel insecure, BB reversing the role of the conventional women in sonnet 14 she demanded Robert to love her for who she is as a person not by her physical appearance “if thou must love me let it be for nought, except for loves sake only “By doing so, BB gains a sense of security and freedom to love truly as she challenges the values of the Victoria era and its goal to be the ideal women. BB subverts the expected conventions of her homocentric society in Sonnet 32 as she sees love even physical love as based more on the souls intensity and the deep connection between one another “Neath master-hands , from instruments defaced , -- great souls at one stroke , may do and doat “ these closing lines contrast the attitudes of The Great Gatsby as BB expresses Robert and Herself as imperfect people and that they share an
Indestructible Love Shakespeare's sonnet CXVI represents one of the most powerful poems defending true love. While being such a simple poem, the lines in sonnet CXVI effectively grasp the focus of endless love. Morality is not a worry in love, it is non existent. True love remains solid through any disruptive path of time and even though our physical beauty fades, our love carries on and becomes immortal. Shakespeare opens this poem with his opinion of how true love should be.
With impatience and no precaution, choosing the wrong bride would not just ruin the family’s reputation but also the chance for their other kids to have an opportunity for marriage. She then realizes the importance of not rushing and that these marriages were seen as a business and were not to be taken lightly. This story confirms that the key in finding the best is patience, as the easiest way isn’t always the best way. Reading this story allowed me to see the different views on arranged marriages. Serena an American woman saw it almost possible to imagine getting married to someone she didn’t know or love.
For example, in act 1 of the play, statements such as, “That is like a woman! But seriously, Nora, you know what I think about that. No debt, no borrowing,” lead us to believe that Torvald is not willing to do anything that will hurt his image. Eventually his pompous persona and “narrow minded” view of life inevitably cause him to suffer a very embarrassing and unusual fate. At the end of the play, it is ultimately Torvald’s pride in his job, Nora, and his own image that eventually cause his wife to leave him.