Unrequited love is a kind of love that can't be reciprocated or returned, even though it's usually desired. In the novel, one of the major characters, Jay Gatsby, has this sort of romance towards his old flame, Daisy Buchanan. When he went off to war, even though Daisy promised to wait for him, she couldn't and married Tom. Gatsby was poor and Daisy wanted more, desperate for affection. When Gatsby returned home, he did whatever he could to win Daisy's heart back and earned money and riches.
Through a metaphor, Millay says that love is something that ‘in me sings no more’. This advertises love as a fuel to her, the word ‘sings’ suggest that it is doing good for her body and soul and gives an impression that without it she feels lifeless, lonely and empty. This could also be seen as a reference to her Beauty and looks fading with age. ‘Never give all the heart’ warns ‘he that made this knows all the costs’ explaining the consequences of giving all the heart in an unrequited love are high. The two poems concentrate on very different types of love.
Illusions of Love “Love” is something that can make someone completely happy or can make them totally miserable. It makes people wonder, how this four letter word, can create complete and utter chaos in a person’s life? How, completely sane people can do stupid things all in the name of LOVE; and where people will ignore giant “red-flags” or character flaws in others in the belief that one is “In Love.” In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “Winter Dreams,” we read about Dexter Green a young man that comes from a middle-class background with dreams of becoming successful. Ambitions that he begins to formulate from the time he was a caddy at a very upscale golf course. Dreams that drive him to believe that one day he would be back on those golf greens, but as a member and not a caddy.
Conventions of tragedy – The Tragic Hero Gatsby has many flaws, some which are bigger and more obvious than others. However, we can see clearly that his biggest flaw could possibly be his affection for Daisy, who causes him to become known as a "tragic hero". She is the one thing that stands between Gatsby and his idea of "perfection," as she is the only unrealistic dream that he chases and does not obtain. By the end of the play he dies as a result of his obsession with having Daisy, which is symbolic of her devastating impact on his
The Scarlet Letter as a Love Story The Scarlet Letter is a story that can be perceived in many ways; it is a story of revenge, a story of sin, but most important it is a story of love. Chillingworth’s characters whole body and mind is consumed by revenge and his pure and sheer hatred towards Reverend Dimmesdale. In the novel there is sin all around the story’s main plot was sin, but that’s not the only sin that is committed. Evert Duyckinck wrote that “The Scarlet Letter is a psychological romance. It is a tale of remorse, a study of character in which the human heart is anatomized, carefully, elaborately, and with striking poetic and dramatic power” (Duyckinck 181).
Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ focuses on the exploration of the impossibility of perfect romance through the central relationship between Catherine Earthshaw and Heathcliff. The powerful presence of their wild, complex personalities permeates throughout the novel as their destructively passionate feelings towards each other make their relationship complicated, affecting many around them as this becomes the source of much of the major conflicts in the plot. However, despite undergoing difficult stages in their lives, their special undying bond keeps them together until the very end. The turbulent relationship between the two begins when Mr. Earnshaw brings Heathcliff, an abandoned orphan from the slums of Liverpool, home. At first, young Catherine resents him.
She chases him up to the point of exhaustion, and as much as he tries to avoid her she is persistent. In the end, Demetrius falls under a love potion and she finally gains his affection. The whole story is a horrible example for women. She completely throws herself to a man , up to a point of disgusting desperation and in the end she obtains her goal. In real life, true love would rarely be the outcome.
The very first line of Clare's poem declares 'I ne'er was struck before that hour' The use of the word struck gives us an image of someone unexpectedly being hit by a spell or by one of cupids arrows, leaving him unable to resist falling in love. It is a romantic love that is inspired by a brief visual attraction rather than the love that grows as a result of long acquaintance or familiarity. This is clear from the lack of any concrete or detailed description of the object of his love, other than to say 'Her face blossomed like a sweet flower' and 'I never saw so sweet a face'. Instead, he describes in great detail the effect that this 'sudden' love had on his own being. He describes his face turning 'deadly pale' his legs 'refused to walk' his blood rushing back so that it 'took my sight away' and 'blood burnt round my heart'.
Gatsby realizes when he finally has Daisy in his arms she is not exactly consistent with his memory of her in his”ghostly heart”. The first time Daisy and Gatsby are reunited “Daisy tumbled short of his dreams – not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (95). The liveliness of Daisy’s memory in Gatsby conflicted the Daisy he spent time with for tea five years later. His ultimate pursuance for the meaning of life made him almost forget about time and how people can change. “...he was consumed with wonder at her presence… he was running down like an over-wound clock” (92) Gatsby’s love for Daisy was succorded by his deception of her image.
However Gatsby always wanted to be a rich man, it's just he became more motivated in acquiring his fortune for his love Daisy. Therefore his dream cannot be souly based on Daisy, as Daisy was only his motivation. Gatsby is introduced into the novel later, and is spoken and gossiped about earlier on in the novel, this makes him seem more of a mystery. As Gatsby is presented, he is reveal to be an innocent, hopeful young man who stakes everything on his dreams, not realizing that his dreams are unworthy of him. Gatsby invest Daisy with idealistic perfection that she cannot possibly attain in reality and pursues her with a passionate zeal that blinds him to her limitations.