This is made evident in the line, “My love is such that rivers cannot quench.” The narrator wants to be with her husband forever, for eternity. The theme of Bradstreet’s poem is religious. She puts forward her belief that earthly love is a path towards heavenly love, which in her eyes she will be spending with her husband for an infinite amount of time. The way Bradstreet describes the bond between her and her husband sets a joyous and amorous tone. They are like one, so good together as she puts it.
Both Gerry and Marilyn feel venerable to her death because they don’t have the power to alter the law of science. She convinces him to think of only positive memories of her so that he won’t grieve over her death. As time closes in on her she tells Barton, “ ‘I’m ready,’”(18) finalizing her life with the effort to appear confident. Even after her death, Barton still feels uneasy about Marilyn, displaying an ironic viewpoint towards a stowaway compared to the one from the beginning of the
Jen and Lo demonstrate unconditional, unrestrained love. Their relationship shows the transformation of emotion to compassion. Another demonstration of love is Shu Lien and Li Mu Bai, but their relationships yields restrictions and complications. In a past battle, Shu Lien’s fiancé lost his life to save Li Mu Bai’s. According to Confucian training, Shu Lien and Li Mu Bai would be disgracing Shu Lien’s fiancé if they got together.
In the excerpt from “A Secret Sorrow”, the two main characters show a great respect for marriage. The way that Faye shows this is by her inability to tell Kai that she was no longer able to conceive a child. She was torn between the idea of her not being able to give birth to Kai’s children and the idea of her losing Kai altogether. She loved Kai so much that just a little while after telling him about her problem, she says “I don’t expect you to throw out a life of dreams just for the sake of chivalry. You don’t have to marry me, Kai” She thinks that in marriage, she should be able to give her spouse what he wants, in this case giving birth to their future children.
When Goodman Brown begins his journey, he leaves his loving wife being a good Christian man. When he leaves his wife, Faith, the author is using a double meaning stating that he is literally leaving his wife and he is leaving his faith in God behind (53). Goodman Brown states “she’s a blessed angel on earth; and after this one night, I’ll cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven” (53). It is interpreted by the reader as Faith literally being an angel from Heaven trying to convince Goodman Brown not to follow down the path of evil. Faith, also as a good wife, appears to know something evil is taking place and does not want Goodman Brown to participate.
The story begins with Young Goodman Brown leaving his wife, Faith, to go on an errand. His wife’s name has a symbolic meaning in this story. Faith symbolizes love, that is love between husband and wife, and it also symbolizes his faith and love that he has for his religion and God. Faith, his wife, warned him not to venture out on this errand because of dreams she had. “ dearest heart, prithee put off your journey until sunrise and sleep in your own bed tonight.
Byelinkov is not the type of person to take praise very well while Varinka is willing to give him all he needs. All of these show what kind of persons Byelinkov and Varinka are, it shows how they over compensate each other’s personalities. Byelinkov says that “Pride can be an imperfect value”(981) While Varinka responds with “It isn’t pride. It’s the truth. You are a great man.” Varinka kisses Byelinkov and is still happy that she can call herself his wife.
The real question is why? The effect of the marriage truthfully does not affect our country; it affects the homosexuals, their loved ones, and those that pay too much attention to the same-sex marriage. Love should be shared with other people whether it is the opposite sex or the same sex. There seems to be a double edged sword when it comes to free will. We are all free to make choices for our own lives, but not be free in our choices of love and marriage.
Refer to the film, Hayati married with Aziz and left Zainuddin so Zainuddin feel so sad because of that decision. Muluk advised Zainuddin to back up from his sadness and do not be weak because of love and he listened to Muluk carefully. Muluk said love did not teach us to be weak but actually love gives us strength. Zainuddin get back his soul after he listened to
Although in ‘Remember’, it is not explicitly confirmed whether the speaker dies or is just leaving to a place far away, however, the second line of the poem telling the reader that the speaker has gone “into the silent land” suggests that the land the speaker is leaving to is the land of the dead which is “silent” in that no one speaks of the place because nobody alive knows what the land of the dead is like. This however shows how strong spiritual love (the romantic love between the speaker and her lover) is, that it can still last after death, transcending death into the land of the living through memories of the speaker’s lover when physical love cannot as seen in the poem where the speaker’s lover can “no more hold (her) by the hand” now that she is dead. However, while ‘Remember’ shows how spiritual love can stay constant even in death, ‘Plena Timoris’ shows how a death can bring