However, Humbert's lyrical rapture over the great American landscape (as well its the banal motels) suggest there is more than just a passing affection for America. Coupled with his insatiable desire and affection for the all American girl the novels true representation of America is far from straight forward. Dolores' obsession with consumer culture and all its trappings cause her to gravitate towards Humbert. As we are told by our high brow narrator he bares more than a passing resemblance to an “actor chap on whom Lo has a crush.”[1] (Pt.1, Ch.11, Pg.43) This clearly defines the origins of Dolores' initial attraction towards Humbert. He even alters his appearance to deliberately play up to the likeness of the actor Dolores admires,which we are told
In the famous novel, The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald, creates a satire that comments on the ridiculous American ideals shown through multiple love maps between the high class and the lower class. It expresses how the women were known to think, as well as the different ways and views between the rich and the poor. The first sign of zaire occurred in the first paragraph when Daisy, talking about he day her little girl was born, stated “Alright…I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a little fool---that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” After reading that I had a good idea on how the women were viewed in this book. On the same page Daisy also said, “I’ve been everywhere and
Pocahontas and John Smith were young adults who fell in love sort of like Romeo and Juliet because their love seems impossible. The movie spices up when John Smith and Pocahontas are caught together. She was engaged to a Native American called Kocoum therefore it was tragic to find her with John Smith; the Native Americans try to kill John Smith but Pocahontas saves his life. The Disney movie basically portrays them as falling in love and at the end; John Smith is shot and leaves Virginia while Pocahontas stays. The real story did not happen that way.
After meeting Zeena Ethan Frome is caught between 2 woman, one that can provide him with love and compassion, and his wife, who he relies on for economic support. In the book, the woman are the ones to make the decisions, and men were usually portrayed as weak. Edith Wharton’s exposure to knowledge about the cruel social status of individuals due to the war during the 1900, and her view of gender roles in society influenced her novella of Ethan Frome and forced it into a naturalistic perspective. The poor economic status of the characters in the novel, and the weak figure of Ethan Frome, leads to the cruel ending of the novel, encouraging the idea that our destiny can not be changes, and that outside forces control our outcome. Edith Wharton included the harsh economic status of Americans during the 1900, by basing her novel on the war.
The Carpathia immigration officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukater, but her name is Rose Dawson. She seen Cal looking for her, but he does not see her, and they never ended up together, her mother, Cal and friends of the family has no choice but to think that she died on the Titanic. But in the crash of 1929, Cal is married, but then he put a pistol in his mouth and committed suicide. So Rose is an actress in the 1920s, and now 84 years later Rose Calvert is
There at Brideshead Charles meets Sebastian’s sister Julia and he secretly falls in love with her. During the summer Sebastian, Charles and Julia all go to visit Sebastian and Julia’s father Lord Marchmain in Italy. Lord Marchmain is a former Catholic who turned atheist after divorcing his wife, Lady Marchmain. Lady Marchmain is a stern Catholic who rules over the house with a strong hand, enforcing her Catholic morality on all of her children. Eventually Sebastian finds out about Charles’ infatuation with Julia, he is outraged and turned in to a full-blown alcoholic.
Story started with the baritone solo of Poppea's husband Otho who was just came back from service. He missed his wife so much but found out the shameful truth that his wife was in a relationship with emperor Nero. Then then scene changed into Poppea's bedroom. Nero was discussing with Poppea about conferring her as new empress and how he can divorce with Octavia. From the lyrics I found out Nero call Poppea "my glory","the light of my eyes" which shows his love.
David Henry Hwang wrote M. Butterfly in 1988. It was based on a true story of a French man and went onto Broadway that same year. It has also won a Tony award for best play of the year. The play contains an opera called Madame Butterfly, a story about a Western man, named Pinkerton, and a Chinese woman, named Butterfly, marrying each other. The Western man leaves Butterfly and she kills herself.
We see her obsession with money and the social status it brings when she cries on her wedding day after hearing her husband (George Wilson) borrowed his wedding suit; implying that he is poor. Myrtle tries to escape her mundane life at the car garage in the Valley of Ashes by having an affair with Tom Buchanan. He is a source of hope for her to have the life she has always dreamt of- one with wealth, glamour, status and comfort. We see how Myrtle shamelessly, infront of her husband, wets her lips and leans in towards Tom when he and Nick come to Mr Wilson’s garage. At her New York apartment with Tom, Myrtle lavishes herself by buying luxury and unnecessary gifts- such as her dog, a common accessory to a wealthy woman’s outfit.
These intellectuals regarded Asians, North Africans and Middle Easterners as an unruly, barbaric populous that needed to be civilized. The British and French used Orientalism as a means of Imperialism. Anything that did not fit into the Western culture was thought of as taboo. Included in such taboos was freedom of expression for women. This severely bound Western European women to docile, submissive stations.