"In the words of the Wife of Bath, God has given women three talents- deceit, weeping, and spinning" (Power 118). The institution of marriage is revealed to have little to do with love, but a lot to do with getting what you want or sexual gratification. She showed us a rare glimpse of a woman with a position of authority in medieval society. She used sex to get what she wanted from her husbands, making her well practiced in the art of sexual manipulation. She presents herself as someone who craves sex, sees marriage as a way to experience the finer things in life and loves to be an instigator.
We, as the reader, see this as unfair but they see it as normal as during the Victorian times, a husband could put their wife in a madhouse without question. Maud is presented at first as clueless as to what is going on around her but our opinion changes as we get further into the novel. “’and your last mistress’ she went on then, ‘she was quite a fine lady’” here, Maud is deceiving Sue, making her believe that she is ignorant to her plan. The way Waters’ makes the character of Maud act blind to what is going on around her is how she deceives the reader, by making them believe one thing and then revealing the other. Maud makes Sue believe that she is a lovely, kind person to aid her deception.
Comparison between Anne Sexton and her lover’s wife in “For My Lover: Returning to His Wife” What will you do if you fall in love with a married man? What’s going to happen if you commit the affair with him even you know by your heart how much painful his wife is? Will you give up your relation between you and him for her? It is difficult to decide whether you will return your lover to his wife or not as the sense of moral comes to your mind. According to Anne Sexton, the poet of “For My Lover: Returning to His Wife demonstrates herself as the one who decides to end the relationship between her and her lover.
Each work of fiction demonstrates the differing aspects and motivations that can result from the feeling of love. Love can make people act differently, as if they are different people completely. Browning’s poem, “My Last Duchess,” explores the possessive side of love and looks at the motivations behind this type of emotion. Throughout the poem, the duke is speaks of his first wife, by describing the painting by Frà Pandolf. “After saying that he alone opens the curtain, the duke promptly begins a catalog of complaints about the way that his wife had acted” (Marchino, 2).
He quickly begins to mention how short life is even referencing her ‘preserved virginity’ being taken when she’s dead as ‘worms shall try.’ He finishes by focusing on the present and telling her to make the most of the time that they have now, which hints at the use of sexual innuendo. The speaker presents an argument in these three parts, however there are several layers of meaning to this poem. To his coy mistress is a poem, and ghazal is an ancient poet form often used to explain the beauty and pain of love. ‘If you are the rhyme and I the refrain,’ this is use of music to describe to describe fate and the feeling of eagerness is unnecessary as she is aware that when the time is right they will become one with each other. It also has several forms of sexual innuendo similar to ‘to his coy mistress’
Celie: Mister. Shug: Why he do that? Celie: He beat me for not being you.” Shug is Celie’s friend because she spends time with Celie and helps her connect with her sister. Shug sews quilt with Celie on the porch and helps Celie read her sister Nettie’s letter to her. Sex is ruined by her rapist of a step-father and her forceful bland sex with her husband.
He seemingly focuses his attention to women in this poem, which was written in honor of true events told to him by his “Muse” and friend, John Caryll, about events involving two Catholic families that at the time were feuding because of the cutting of a young woman’s locks. His intent, which he states in the introductory letter, is to “comically merge” the two families. Women were expected to be aesthetically pleasing in the early 1700’s, and the non-consensual loss of something as important to a woman’s beauty as her hair was considered important. While Pope acknowledges that this is the world in which he inhabits, he also pokes fun at the society people who believe such. The otherwise uninformed reader might wonder as to why a gentleman would assault a young lady in such a manner, or why a young woman would get so upset about a lock of hair.
This essay will discuss and highlight Othellos character and actions.There will be a contrast made between Othello at the beginning of the play and his downfall throughout the play. As seen in the play Othello’s love for Desdemona is an intense deep love. This is proven when Barbanzio (Desdemonas father) accuses Othello of using witchcraft to make her fall in love with him. Othello responds saying “The trust, the office i do hold of you not only take away but let your sentence even all upon my life”. Here he is saying that is Desdemona claims that her fathers accusations are right then they may not only take his position buth is life included.
Key words: feminist literacy criticism; self-respect; equal; independent; feminist conciousness 1. Introduction Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. During the process of training Eliza's pronunciation, Higgins and Eliza fell into love, but to many readers' surprise, finally the flower girl Eliza announced that she would leave Higgins and get married with a poor young man called Freddy. This "imperfect" open ending set by Bernard Shaw made numbers of readers regretful and full of expectation that Eliza would come back to Higgins at length. And would she come back to Higgins and would they stay together?
Young (251). Donne shows his love in these poems through references to physical love, the union of two souls, and journeys. These references can be seen in “To his Mistress Going to Bed,” “The Flea,” “The Extasie,” and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”. One of the ways Donne expresses the theme of love is through physical love. The two main poems that refer to physical love are “To his Mistress Going to Bed” and “The Flea.” Donne’s poem “To his Mistress Going to Bed” is about the speaker trying to convince a women to remove her clothes by saying “Off with that girdle, like heaven's zone glittering, / But a far fairer world encompassing.