Shakespeare effectively creates dramatic irony in this scene which creates a strong sense of humor. After Romeo leaves Juliet, Juliet is found crying by Lady Capulet. Lady Capulet thinks that Juliet is mourning over Tybalts death, but is actually mourning over Romeo’s exile. Lady Capulet starts comforting Juliet by telling her that they will get revenge on Romeo for slaying Tybalt, Juliet replies by saying she will never be satisfied with Romeo until she beholds him-dead,(Shakespeare 3.5 ll. 87-93).
Bloody Chamber – Important quotes. Page 5: “ He had invited me to join this gallery of beautiful women.” The theme of beauty is presented through the Marqui’s many wives, “ He had invited me to join this gallery of beautiful women.” This emphasizes the narrator's youth and her husband's experience as he has ‘many beautiful women’. The quote also foreshadows the Marquis's view of women and the danger he poses to them. It is quite ironic because if they were so beautiful why did he find the need to kill them. The fact he also invited her, suggests irony in his characterization because he is showing her where she will end up.
The Darling by Anton Chekhov Olenka; ingenuous, affectionate, tender and sweet... Creating this ''lovely'' protagonist: Olenka Plemyannikova; Chekhov probably aimed at mirroring woman selflessness as a negative aspect that has long been attached to women. It seems that he was supporting women's intellectual independence and originality and was trying to show what women ought not to be. Interestingly, Leo Tolstoy admired the selflessness of Olenka as a woman. ''It is, moreover, revealing that the traits that he admired in others and attributed to his fictional characters -like The Darling, who represents the suppression and loss of self- are uncompromisingly female.
He does this by Lucentio over-complementing Bianca; he praises her “sweet beauty in her face”, “he coral lips”, her breath which smelt like “perfume in the air” and what she surrounded was “sacred and sweet” and that he “laments (or cries) burns, pines and perishes” because of her beauty. This shows that aspects of Romantic Comedy and Parody are used in the first act of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ by the use of stock characters and mocking Romantic plays. In addition to this, another aspect of comedy is shown by the use of disguise. Disguise is the main theme throughout the act. A total of four characters are in disguises at the end of the act.
Although the subject of this poem is morbid its overall message is a positive one. The moral of this literary piece boils down to the point that living is a lot easier than committing suicide. The poem has an ABAB rhyme scheme as well that further adds to this poem’s amusement. She begins with, “Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; & drugs cause cramp…” In this stanza you can see she lists razors, rivers, acid, and drugs as different ways someone can kill themselves but then gives reasons why they shouldn’t. In the first line, she implies you could kill yourself using a razor but then says they “pain you”, as in if you did use a razor to commit suicide it would cause too much pain.
Celie desires somebody to tell her that she is pretty, so she can feel beautiful. A person with confidence all ready knows how gorgeous he or she is and does not need people to remind them. Celie seems needy at this point, because she needs Nettie to make her feel better about herself. Harpo’s wife, Sofia, gets attacked by Harpo and tells her that Celie was the one that told him to beat her. Sofia confronts Celie and she replies, “ ‘I say it cause
Romeo is referring to how love causes pain through and image. I think much like love, a rose has a good and a bad side. A beautiful and a painful side. In ‘Romeo and Juliet’, when the two main characters are faced with the death of their beloveds, deep and powerful grief ensures. Romeo refers to his body as a temple and says, “That I may sack / the hateful mansion.” He is referring to how his love is more valuable than a mansions and he is willing to sacrifice it for love.
Felix Huynh English 2D Ms. Krista Lambie 15 March 2012 Contradiction: Romeo’s Multi-Faceted Personality In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, contradictions are often used to demonstrate Romeo’s multi-faceted character. Juliet is the first figure to use contradiction in explaining Romeo. These contradictions are Juliet's way of expressing how hurt and confused she feels after hearing that Romeo has killed her cousin. Juliet said “O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?”(96).
In the Browning poems ‘My Last Duchess’ ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘The Laboratory’ all these lover face multitude of emotions: obsession, lust, power, status and jealousy. Throughout Romeo and Juliet and the Robert Browning poetry there is also violence but for many different reasons; murder and death also play a significant role in each text. Right at the start of Romeo and Juliet you get a sense that fate and destiny play a key part in the overall outcome. In the prologue it states ‘two star cross’d lovers take their life’ This shows that their paths are already entwined and that there future has been written. In the Elizabethan time period people strongly believed in superstition, fate, destiny and the wheel of fortune.
The poems Porphyria’s Lover and The Laboratory both by Robert Browning are both quite simillar in the way he tells them and sets the scene/setting are different in several ways. Porphyria’s Lover is about a man who is in love with a woman who is from a rich upper-class family so cannot stay or be seen with him. So one night when she goes to see him, he kills her, so that she cannot leave him again. The Laboratory is about a woman whose boyfriend has left her or another girl. She then wants revenge.