Love through the Ages Chart Main Themes: - Romance and passion - Love and marriage - Illicit love - Meetings and partings - Parents and family Text | Year | Aspects | Quote | Analysis | Prose | The Great GatsbyFitzgerald | 1923Mod. | MarriageAdulteryFamily | “Neither of them can stand the person they’re married to.”“That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” | First person.Signifies the breakdown of traditional morals in the 20th Century, valued nothing but money. Marriage was no longer valued. | The WoodlandersThomas Hardy | 1887Vic. | LossLoveAnger | “As if she were stroking a little bird” | Simile.Class differences (Giles and Doc)Melodramatic, Giles dies after sleeping in rain.Poetic, rhythmic.Eyes are a metonym for beauty.
In The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd conveys the message that Lily learns to admire the little things in life and the people around her. With the loss of a mother at a young age a person’s life can significantly change, not always for the worst but also for the better. It can change the way someone thinks, handles problems, and control their emotions. This is the case with Lily Owens which loses her mother in a dreadful accident when she was only four years old. During her life journey she discovers many women to aid her and help her find herself.
This expression means that nobody will compare to his last wife. The Duke gets confused about what God has made and created and puts it as the work of man, in which he shows that he is his own god. The Duke thinks about how the Duchess loved everybody and everything. “She enjoyed the diversity of the divine, while the Duke enjoyed artificial and aesthetic things” (Mitchell 74). “The Duchess is pleased with a bough of cherries just as much as she was to her Husband” (Mitchell 75).
By the end of this play, we see how Nora’s secret changes the relationship between the couple, as she violates the stereotypical role-play as a wife and mother in her era, which generates her inspirational growth. Nora, the main character, was first introduced as a very sheltered, immature, and optimistic woman. Helmer we see as proud of his male role in society and in the household, father-like towards his wife, and greatly cares for his appearance in others eyes. When speaking to each other, Helmer communicates to Nora as if she was his child instead of his wife. He does this by things such as calling her nicknames with negative characteristics, such as his little lark, spendthrift and featherhead.
He is a wealthy young man yet so self-absorbed and demanding. The Capulets chose him and think very much of him to be the perfect man for their daughter, Juliet. He is more possessive than he is romantic and an example of this would be when he called Juliet his wife before they even got married. Paris is conflicted with a few situations, first he wasn’t given permission straight away to marry Juliet, then she refuses to marry him since she is already “secretly” married to Romeo. When Tybalt is killed, Lady Capulet, Lord Capulet, and Paris think she is unhappy because of her cousin’s death, which makes Paris respond to this conflict by scheduling the wedding earlier to make Juliet happy again, and that’s one of the biggest conflicts since she told Friar Lawrence she would rather do the most dangerous things than marry Paris.
He tells her that she is acting in a way he doesn't approve of, he says that she is ‘walkin’ wavy’ and that this is making men notice her and ‘their heads are turning like windmills’. The thing is, it is Eddie who we see is the one who notices her growing up into an attractive woman, and his desire for her is the cause of the tragedy that ends the play. The way their relationship changes through Act 1 sets up the situation that will end in the death of Eddie at the end of the play. Eddie Carbone and his wife Beatrice have brought up Eddie’s niece Catherine like their own daughter. They do not have children of their own.
It showed his shallowness because I thought he had looked over speeches of ‘love for him’ that was embellished by his older daughters so much’ Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter…’ that he had no sense to realize how fake they were in comparison to Cordelia’s honesty ‘I am sure my love’s more richer than my tongue’. Lear’s angry response to Cordelia’s simple speech shows his desire and stubbornness for others to flatter him ‘Mend your speech a little’ ‘Nothing can come of nothing’. I think the mistakes Lear makes and his anger towards Kent from page 2 onwards shows his extreme pride as
The readers introduction to Hamlet and King Claudius occurs in Act I Scene ii where the King explains that he has married his sister in law with mixed feelings but he believes Hamlet’s mourning should seize, to which his nephew replies with disdain and offense. This sets the mood for the relationship between the two characters as well as set Hamlet up for his first soliloquy, seen in Act I Scene ii line 133 O, that is too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve into dew! Or that the everlasting had not fix’d His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! Oh God! God!
Mrs. Mooney was previously involved in a dysfunctional marriage to a “shabby stooped little drunkard” (61). Similar to her own marriage, Mrs. Mooney indirectly forces Polly to marry for money. Mrs. Mooney is a ruthless character as a result of her previous troubles. Consequently, Mrs. Mooney’s maternal connection with Polly is non-existent, turning their relationship into a business. When Mrs. Mooney is observing Polly’s interactions with young men, she becomes frustrated that “none of [the men] meant business” and considers sending Polly back to her previous job (63).
Annabelle is having a hard time accepting the fact that her father and mother aren’t together anymore and her father has been replaced with Stan. Stan makes her uncomfortable and she doesn’t like the way he behaves as a replacement for her father.“Stan read the letter. Grinning hugely, he looked up at Annabelle. “She’ll have done it for a dare, I bet. Good on yer, Annabelle.