Browning’s poem ‘The Laboratory’ is about a scorned woman’s desired to kill her lover’s mistress, and any other woman he may have had an affair with. ‘The Laboratory’ (Ancient Regime) refers to an older rule or government suggesting that the speaker comes from a past. Love being a profound, tender, passionate affection towards another person. When Romeo meets Juliet for the first time, he describes her asa “snowy dove trooping with the crows”. The word “dove” suggests she is both beautiful and a figure of peace.
This belief or Hellenism ushered forth equal rights, prosperity, democracy, and a high standard for education. Hellenistic philosophy grasped the idea of beauty and broke it down into three major components; symmetry, proportion, and harmony. All three ingredients combined in the perfect balance creates beauty in all things. According to Pericles, Athens is a model example of “beauty”. Athenians truly invested this thought into their lives from everyday mundane tasks and civic duties, all the way to their art and world renowned architecture.
In Arthur Millers play The Crucible, Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor are two very different characters. Abigail being a selfish and heartless girl, Elizabeth is a kind and honest woman. Abigail used her own personal grudge against Elizabeth motive for accusing her of witchcraft. Their hatred had been long standing, mainly because John Proctor Elizabeth’s husband was having an affair with Abigail. Elizabeth’s coldness was the main cause of her husband’s disloyalty but she forgives him and does what is possible to keep her family together which is the most significant thing to her.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is not a novel for the optimist. In his attempt, following Lord Henry's dictum, 'to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul,' Dorian succeeds only in satiating the one and corrupting the other. Lord Henry is often pilloried by critics as a cynic who manipulates Dorian into doing the things that he advocates but is too withdrawn and too frightened to do himself. In this view, Henry is a tired man who wants to live vicariously through a younger, more beautiful specimen who has the ability (or so Lord Henry supposes) to experience life as Lord Henry believes it ought to be experienced. No doubt all this is true.
The Warrior of the Heart In Edmond Rostand’s play, Cyrano de Bergerac, one personality stands above the rest; the bravery and honor he shows certainly makes him deserving to have such a play named after him. Cyrano de Bergerac resembles the “prince charming” that would grace the pages of any fairy tale story, save for one insecurity: his nose. Although it is taught that outward appearances mean nothing in the face of inner strength and personality, Cyrano finds himself unworthy¾only for sake of his nose¾to be loved by Roxane, the beautiful and intellectual woman of his childhood. It is to be the city of love, as many call Paris, yet Cyrano stands alone, his silent love burning beneath his breast while on the outside, he is the perfect friend to Roxane. In the fantastical world that is Cyrano de Bergerac, there exists the type of hero that has been lost in the modern world.
Doomed Love The story of Romeo and Juliet is a true tragedy. The star-crossed lovers captivate you in their tale of betrayal and heartbreak. Their love is so strong that it makes you love them even more. Their love makes them forget everything and do anything to be together, even die. Romeo and Juliet’s love is doomed not only by the world around them but also by its intensity, because it leads them to death, to be completely blind and oblivious to their lives, and it caused them to move too quickly.
Romeo for his immature behaviour and killing Tybalt which made him banished, Friar Lawrence for helping the two lovers in their plans to be together, and love, because Romeo and Juliet were so deeply in love they could not live without each other so they both killed themselves. Without these three key elements in the play Romeo and Juliet would not have been
Character Analysis Till We Have Faces, written by C.S. Lewis, is a novel based on the Greek legend of Psyche and Cupid. The main character and narrator, Orual, retells her life from when she was young to her present age. In the story she tells of how being the ugly sister compared her two beautiful sisters, Redival and Psyche, has impacted her life substantially. Psyche was the major reason behind Orual’s actions because Orual was jealous that everyone noticed Psyche and never acknowledged her, and this would ultimately lead to the sacrificing of Psyche to the mountain god, Ungit.
Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts. Introductory Note Prometheus Unbound best combines the various elements of Shelley's genius in their most complete expression, and unites harmoniously his lyrically creative power of imagination and his 'passion for reforming the world.' It is the fruit of an outburst of poetic energy under the double stimulus of his enthusiastic Greek studies, begun under Peacock's influence, and of his delight in the beauty of Italy, whither he had removed for health and rest. It marks his full mastery of his powers. It is, not less than Queen Mab and The Revolt of Islam, a poem of the moral perfection of man; and, not less than Alastor and Epipsychidion, a poem of spiritual ideality.
It story is about how the beast had to find a true love to become a human again, and the beautiful girl who loved him no matter what he looked like. I found out that the theme ‘power of love’ is commonly shown in romantic stories. ! Fate is just like destiny, you cannot see it but it influences your life. In Romeo and Juliet it was fate that bought both of them together and made them fall