The men are supposed to be sick with love, vehement about it, and so sweet a woman would have to accept his advances. The woman’s role is very much a broad, sweeping statement. This allows for the notion that women are property to be claimed to run as the undercurrent to the courtly love system. This is evident in the way that Arcite and Palamon, Theseus, and even the Gods force Emelye into a marriage she wants no part in. The Knight tries his best to maintain a noble and romantic air to his story but the tale itself contradicts that.
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.
Romeo and Juliet --- Similarities and Differences As the two main characters in the play, Romeo and Juliet share a lot of common attributes as most teenagers do. One may say that those similarities lead them into their star-crossed the love. Despite all the characteristics they share, they still differ from each other in some ways. Romeo is an impulsive person with an idealistic view of romance. His young heart eagerly seeks love, but is so easily distracted and changed.
Her poise is an illusion set up to shield herself from reality, yet she still attempts to make herself attractive to new male suitors. Themes: Violence and cruelty appear as a theme in this play. Violence is often fraught with sexual passion. For instance, Stella explains her love for Stanley despite his brutality to Blanche. There is the unnerving suggestion that violence is more willingly accepted by women in a marriage than one would like to believe.
Even though some may debate otherwise, I believe Romeo and Juliet’s “love” is based upon shallow infatuation due to their sudden physical desirability for one another and the rapid development of their relationship. The exaggeration and unrealistic plot of Romeo and Juliet took love at first sight to a whole new extreme as the two protagonists claimed their love, got married and sacrificed their lives for each other in a time span of 3 days. The confusion between love and infatuation present in Romeo and Juliet is highlighted in the beginning of the play when Romeo is in a state of utter despair due to his unrequited love for beautiful woman named Rosaline. To snap him out his misery, Mercutio and Benvolio convince him to crash the Capulet Ball to seek other beautiful women to get over his heartache with Rosaline. Romeo gets over his shallow infatuation as soon as he lays eyes on Juliet.
Also shown by the poor car mechanic husband of Myrtle being happily married and in love with his woman while the rich Tom comes around to woo his wife away secretly on her desire for a more financially stable and available man in her life. As far as the dialog of the film, all these aspects and facets of the story are interwoven into a mosaic of torment and tragedy while using many of the exact words from the book and implementing language and ideas or opinions out of the characters mouths that seem true to the established backdrop of time during the romantic and insatiable Roaring
Compare how the poet creates a powerful character in My Last Duchess and one other poem The authors of My Last Duchess and River God both create two very powerful characters, meaning both powerful in their control but also powerful as in very distinct and memorable. Although they have many similarities, there are also differences in techniques and the desired effects of the character’s personalities. Firstly, both the characters are powerful and have a lot of control, and use this cruelly. In My Last Duchess, after explaining that his late wife was constantly smiling flirtatiously with other men, he says ‘I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.’ The word ‘command’ is an imperative verb and it also doesn’t carry much emotion. It implies that he feels it was a necessary decision to have her killed, and he shows no remorse for it.
Margaret Macomber’s love for her husband is debatable at best. She seems much more interested in flirting with their guide, Robert Wilson, than in encouraging her husband. In fact, she is brazen and unabashed about her sexual dalliance with Wilson and taunts her husband with it. Hemingway writes that she is “an extremely handsome and well-kept woman.” The phrase “well-kept” is particularly revealing in its multiple meanings. On one hand, Margot is fashionable and presents herself well.
William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Taming of the Shrew" are two of his best-known comedic plays. As with most of his comedies, they both feature a wedding, but there are many other similarities in themes and motifs of these plays, as well. The Taming of the Shrew is an early comedy, loosely termed “romantic” along with Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Such plays are lighthearted and often slapstick in style, filled with disguises and deception, and end happily. This is in sharp contrast to the later comedies that are much darker and filled with cynicism and a sometimes bitter irony.
But just what has made this film so popular all over the world? Could it really be the tale of girl meets boy and they fall in love, or is there something deeper than this stereotypical view on romance that has hooked audiences? In terms of representation, Johnny Castle is presented as muscular, good looking and clad in black leather, the typical bad boy that all the ladies supposedly love. The classic tall, dark and handsome type that is used many a time in romance films and novels that makes women swoon at the sight of him. But what does this say about the female target audience?