Abstract There are many different interpersonal relationships one can engage in, of these friendship is the most important as it plays a vital role in shaping our lives. Friendship can be defined as a voluntary, reciprocal relationship with strong positive affective connections which can help achieve personal goals. It can be argued within westernised societies there are common expectations within a friendship such as loyalty, respect, support and reciprocity. This study is concerned with the way friendship is experienced in contemporary Britain. An experiential account from a single case study has been used, based on secondary data from a semi-structured interview.
Shakespeare uses language, structure and dramatic devices to convey and create the effect of strong emotions through his ambitious characters, which is similarly portrayed in laboratory with the narrator’s strong and bitter emotions towards her husband’s infidelity. These characters can also be compared to the narrator of Porphyria’s lover whose intense emotions of love become too overwhelming for him to handle. Both Shakespeare and Browning show Elizabethan society as patriarchal, where men were considered to be the leaders and women subservient. Women were regarded as the weaker sex not just in terms of physical strength, but also emotionally. Women were also depicted as kind and caring as well as being the perfect mother and housewife, on the other hand men were portrayed as brave, strong and loyal.
“The Ballad of the Sad Cafe” by Carson McCullers is a novella that revolves around three significant characters in a love triangle. Lymon is one of the most out of ordinary characters in Carson McCullers theory of love. McCullers has very effectively portrayed the different characters and their characteristics in the novella. All over the novella Lymon has proved to show his character as a grotesque, and displays melodramatic and dependent behaviour and likes to be the center of attention. “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe” is a story of a love triangle in which McCullers has illustrated physical changes and also their behavioural changes in all the three characters, specifically Cousin Lymon.
christina delahys November 8, 2012 Delores English 114 Violence out of Love In the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, the characters Beli, Oscar and Lola are all confronted with indescribable violence when trying to find love due to the curse of the “fuku”. The brutal violence that occurs within the novel easily relates back to the curse caused by the love of Abelard for his daughter by betraying Trujillo’s demands. Each character throughout the novel experiences great hardships and obstacles while trying to find true love. Although Beli, Oscar and Lola constantly attempt to find love, they always fail to do so with many instances resulting in violence. The well-known ‘fuku’ curse is the sole reason love is unattainable and violence is abundant in the Cabral family.
The motive to belong is a necessity for "strong, stable relationships with other people”. Peter Skrzynecki’s poems Feliks Skrzynecki and Ancestors broaden my concept of belonging in that a relationship is not just simply established by familiarity but through the commonalities of culture and language. Skrzynecki deploys exemplary languages devices which effectively send a message to the audience that a line of connection can also be found when culture and language are shared, with another person/s or a surrounding not just
He has a fairly public affair with a stout woman named Myrtle. When his wife Daisy and Gatsby have an affair, he is furious. Not only does Tom manipulate his morals in this case, but society does as well. When the story takes place in 1922, women were expected to follow their husband's every word. They were not allowed the same privileges.
However, sometimes wives become stifled by their husband’s controlling hand. A husband’s masculinity and commanding nature can have the tendency of taking over a marriage. The couple’s entire relationship can appear to be perfect to an outsider, when in reality the husband is the force controlling their lives. There are two couples this year who I felt exhibited the characteristics of having relationships dominated by the male figure. Rose and Troy Maxson from the play Fences by August Wilson and Tom and Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald each have extraordinarily dynamic marital ties.
The story follows the ill fated love story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, the teenage children of feuding families. It is set in a time when nobility, wealth and family honour and name provided a life of privilege. Marriages were arranged between families and it was considered important to marry within your own nobility and class to maintain family honour and social status. Themes of love such as Parental Love, Romantic Love, Love of Family Honour and Friendship are explored through the dramatic languages and provide an emotional context when the theme of hate and death cause conflict and dilemma for the characters. Love is an overpowering force that takes over all other values, loyalties and emotions.
In addition to the confusion surrounding the note Lady Chiltern originally sent to Lord Goring, that Mrs. Cheveley then forwarded in malice to Sir Robert, and that finally unites Sir Robert and Gertrude, there are a variety of stolen conversations and entrances and exits that allow every aspect of the character's lives to find resolution. Clearly, the letter is a very important tool. It represents Lady Chiltern's love for her husband. Originally, she wrote that she needed and wanted Lord Goring, but only so she could speak with him about her troubled marriage, to which she held so dear. Re-sent to Sir Robert, the letter takes on new meaning, and with Lady Chiltern's revelation that she has in fact held her husband on too high of a pedestal, the statements inscribed in it apply directly to him.
Georgiana is a beautiful woman, whose only flaw is the human feeling of love; in which she loves her husband unconditionally and gives her all to him. Every man she comes in contact with lust over her and believes that she is amazing. She never once contemplated leaving her husband for one of the men that follow her around and treat her likes the true angel she is; in-stead she stays with her unsatisfied husband. He is unsatisfied because Georgiana is not perfect in every single way; for Georgiana has a small birthmark on her right cheek, a crimson hand as if a fairy has placed its hand upon her. Her husband, Aylmer, grows more and more annoyed with her only imperfection as every day passes.