Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Fitzgerald both discern their exploration of the universal human concerns of love, hope and morality according to their own contextual influences. Notably one of the best known piece of American prose fiction, Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby, critiques the hedonistic lifestyle of the roaring twenties and the failure of the fruitless promises of the American Dream to highlight the illusion of love and hope. Fitzgerald ultimately develops a pessimistic point of view on the materialistic and superficial society presented in the 1920’s, which prevented the ideas of pure love. Elizabeth Barrett Browning however, through her sonnets from the Portuguese, challenges the established patriarchal values of her time by subverting our expectations through the manipulation of the Petrarchan sonnets. Elizabeth Browning presents an idealistic and an optimistic view towards love and hope through sonnets I, XIV and XLIII.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a female composer in a patriarchal society that is hi ghly religious and traditional, wrote reluctantly about her love for Robert Barrett Browning throughout her poems. Sonnet XIII specifically reflects on parochial Victorian age values and shows how Barrett Browning does not conform to female expectations as she wrote spontaneously about her obsession with love. Similarly, F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals the consequences of obsession with love and the impact of non-conformity in social and historical contexts through the characterisation of Gatsby, who refuses to conform to expectations of immorality and develops an obsession with this. Thus, the issue of different context and forms is significantly ineffective as the consequences of obsession relatively have the same effect even if the influence was different. Barrett Browning presents positive consequences of obsession as her sonnets, whilst being heavily influenced by religion and spirituality, also
Pearl symbolizes evil in the story by representing God's punishment of Hester's sin, symbolizing the guilt and the scarlet letter that controls her behavior and defying Puritan laws by being cheerful and associating with nature. Pearl is a greater punishment then Hester’s “A”. First, Pearl represents God's punishment by her mocking and nagging of Hester. This is shown throughout the novel she sometimes seemed to her mother as almost a witch baby (Hawthorne 88).Second, Pearl is a baffling mixture of strong emotions with a fierce temper and a capacity for evil; with Pearl, Hester's life became one of constant nagging, and no joy. This is proven when Hester remarks to herself, "Oh Father in heaven - if thou art still my father - what is this being which I have brought into the world" (Hawthorne 89).Thirdly, Pearl represents the sins of both Hester and Dimmesdale.
Ideal love carries the seeds of despair Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ written in the mid 1840’s and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ in 1925, both reflect varying components of ideal love carrying the seeds of despair. Ideal love refers to loving for the sake of love and not for what you may get in return, for example; money, status and marriage. It refers to a selfless love. Browning’s sonnets take the reader through her journey of heartache, self-doubt, fragility, devotion, joy, apprehension and mortality. On the other hand ‘The Great Gatsby’ depicts a story from the eyes of a young man named Nick Carraway, narrating a story of love, lust, adultery and murder.
Comparing an extract with ‘Romeo and Juliet’ with an extract from ‘Wuthering Heights’ William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” and Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” are considered to be two of the most popular romances in English literature. They are very similar in different ways. They both tell a love story but from different extremes. Both use obsessive love and overpowering love, love links with conflict and hate, love leads to dangerous and strange behaviour, love leads to passion, love makes the characters disturbed, and love is forbidden. All of these qualities are used in both novels.
The Real Analysis of “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was a gifted but troubled poet known for disturbing style of her work. Plath wrote the poem, “Daddy,” stanzas of emotional, psychological and historical thoughts. The poem was filled with regret and over time was analyzed and critiqued differently. The best critique, “From Protean Poetic: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath,” was written by Mary Lynn Broe and emphasizes the most adequate, textual evidence of the poem, “Daddy.” Broe begins her critique by justifying that Plath creates a mock poetic exorcism of the events that happened throughout her life. Broe’s main claim points out Plath’s stupidity, progress and comedy relief of her famous poem, “Daddy.” Broe puts forth supportive, textual evidence that persuades the audience of this claim.
In “A Rose for Emily” and “The Rocking Horse Winner” Faulkner and Lawrence present the theme of love in a twisted manner. Although both of these stories are about love, they are about two very different kinds of love: Emily Grierson is in a romantic relationship with Homer Baron, while Paul’s love is maternal for his mother. Both stories do however, give a macabre view of love, as they each end with the deaths of the protagonists. Although both stories illustrate love as a source of pain and anguish, it is Emily that presents a more twisted view of love, as she is in control of the decisions that she makes in her life. Conversely, Paul’s story is actually tragic in nature.
Similarly, both texts depicts a love that transforms our life and is a force that can affect and reshape us which is beyond our control. Although both texts represent an intense idealised romantic love against contexts where belief in love meant little, in the sonnets love succeeds whereas in the novel ideal love does not triumph or survive in Americas Jazz Age. Both texts have a first person narrative perspective, in "Sonnets from the Portuguese" a woman reflects on living and being loved revealing an ideal and pure love of the Victorian context, whereas 'the Great Gatsby' uses a male voice of idealism and cynicism depicting the values of Roaring Twenties America. *topic sentence *personal context of each composer regarding love Diction in "how a mystic shape did more behind me" reflects the surprise and wonder of Elizabeth as she did not expect to find love, understandable given her personal context of her poor health and 'old' age. Further, the use of second narration in "if thou must love me, let it be...for loves sake only" addresses her lover, imploring him to love her
Context is a powerful influence on composers’ concerns and the way these are expressed.’ How have the different contexts experienced by Shelley and Scott influenced the way they explore concerns about love? Context: -Time 20th century compared to the 19th -Marys living arrangements, married to Poet Percy Shelley -Love influencing perfection -Societies expectation in the 19th C compares to Blade runner extreme differences in the expectation of love. -Similar-both aspiring perfection and progression -The norm of society was not accepted in science -Frankenstein symbolising woman in society of this time Frankenstein: Blade Runner: Technique/Effect: “There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied in the one, I will indulge the other.”
Second of al all, the novel ends up implying that the most genuinely enduring love might be that of “pathological love” embodied by Jed. The novel is relative to a love story because it explores love and the subliminal link to obsession, sanity and insanity. Joe initially presents the relationship as idyllic, going on to describe it as “seven years into a childless marriage of love” but this seems contradictory when one takes into consideration that Joes revelation that actually