Odysseus and Ulysses loved their wives very much and would do anything for them. Odysseus tried throughout the whole book to get back to his loving wife Penelope. He kept on getting side tracked by either a witch a Cyclops or the Trojan War. Like Odysseus, Ulysses escaped jail as soon as he could once he heard his wife Penny was getting married to another man. He went across the country just to try to win his wife back.
This story is filled with irony and morality just like The Rocking-Horse Winner. The Rocking-Horse Winner, is a story that begins describing a women's life. It talks about how she married for love, and has children, yet still feels as if she is unlucky. Her son desperately tries to prove to his Mother that he was not unlucky. Paul (the son) gets into horse racing, he has a gift like no other.
The word “dove” suggests she is both beautiful and a figure of peace. Shakespeare represents strong feeling of love and how it is effectively presented through this quote. This is ironic because her family is the Montague’s enemy and conflict before peace arrives between the two families. The “crows” could represent the Capulet’s who are the Montague’s enemies, but can also represent the other females at the ball. It can be said that Romeo uses the word “crows” to contrast Juliet to the other females; it is evident that he finds her to be one of the beautiful beings.
In the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Lady Bertilak, the main female character and the most important characters in this medieval poem, is prompted by her husband to discover if Sir Gawain is pure or not. She tests his purity. She is determined to find if he can adhere to the code of chivalry, as all good knights should do. Over a period of three days, Lady Bertilak comes into the bedroom at early dawn where Sir Gawain is sleeping and makes an attempt to seduce him. She plays games of seduction and of courtship in an attempt to sway him from the perfect knight he should be.
Imagining romantic camping trips into the White Mountains … tasting the envelope flaps, knowing her tongue had been there.” (Pg. 87) For Cross, Martha is not just a girl who sends him letters signed “Love,” she represents a life after the war, a life outside of the war, a life that includes romantic trips with a lover. The war is such a large strain on the soldiers, that they need something to look forward to and hope for, to get them through the war, and that is exactly what Martha is for Cross. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross tasting the envelope flaps shows just how infatuated he truly is with the idea of Martha. He will do anything that will give him even the slightest remembrance of how she smells or tastes.
Tragedy is said to be further represented in Shakespeare’s use of opposites or antithesis. Suggested in Romeo’s oxymoronic prophetic- “Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love. Why then, O brawling Love! O loving hate” (I i.162-164) Along with omnipresent motifs of light and darkness, youth and age. Overall this scene of opposites is set within context of the lovers that are opposites in family caught in a feud that ultimately leads to tragedy.
He likes being in love, but he does not like the thought of love and finds it confusing. He is talking about love when he says, “Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel that feel no love in this" (1.3.184-187). Romeo is talking in paradoxes; he does this to emphasize that love is confusing.
Also Austria-Hungary’s king and family visited Sarajevo- Bosnia was assassinated by conspirator Gavrilo Princip Austria striked back in revenge. But the most important came from countries distrust for one another because it led the Great powers of Europe-Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Britain, France, and Russia signed treaties pledging to defend one another. These alliances were intended to promote peace by promoting powerful combinations that no one would dare to attack. But 2 huge alliances emerged in the end. France longed to avenge its defeat in Franco-Prussian War, Bismarck signed treaties with other powered thinking they wouldn’t attack Germany alone.
The description of the writer identifying the post war era, “The bombs of the first blitz” (Green)). The presentation of Lawrence chimerical event in the “Rocking Horse Winner “proved that the story is a fairy tale. Green uses irony to capture his audience. Both stories are humanistic as they share the common theme of the effect of society. Paul wanted his mother love and he set to make her rich while Trevor became destruction to fit in with his peers.Inthe “Rocking Horse winner”, the anxiety of waiting to see what happen, sadly it comes to an end ,Hester’s desire was met, poor Paul died.
Throughout the play it is shown, that Romeo had many different aspects to him, and his impulsiveness was a big one. Romeo, sneaks into the Capulet household where he meets Juliet. He finds Juliet to be the most beautiful girl he’s seen, “Did my heart love till now?...For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." (Act 1, v, 52) and his previous feelings for Rosaline are now gone, as he is now “in love” with Juliet. He later, then sneaks onto Juliet’s balcony where he openly tells her that he is in love with her.