In Wild Oats It explains that a person, over the course of time, comes to realise that his greatest desires of love, are unattainable, and second best things will have to suffice. The central purpose of this poem is to show that love is one of these great desires and despite flashes of promise it contains scarcely anything that is more than fragmentary. Larkin reveals this through tone and diction. Both poets seem to focus a lot on the physical side of love where lust and desire are involved however Abse makes it sound more sensual and even spiritual when he speaks of Eros in his poem. Larkin portrays this sense of objectification in his poem with regards to woman as he describes a woman as a ‘bosomy English rose’ and then follows on to call her ‘beautiful’ throughout the poem portraying the sexual lust involved with love.
This is the theme of Love. I know this because William Shakespeare explains within every line of Sonnet 116 that love is forever and unbreakable. Marvell also uses the theme of love, but slightly differently. Marvell tries to persuade his mistress that he loves her, when really he just wants sexual intercourse with her. He uses persuasion at the start of the poem, but then starts charming his mistress by saying he’ll love her once they have sexual intercourse.
She promised Francis before their trip not to sleep with other men. However, when Macomber embarrasses Margaret by running away from the lion, she decides to spend the night with Wilson. She is a cruel woman, and possibly a murderer, the scene where she shots the buffalo is ambiguous, and gives us space to question if she was shooting at the buffalo or her husband. Margaret is an opportunist. Robert- Wilson is Hemingway's masculine ideal character.
Lastly, the Portia-the beautiful women looking for a Sutter, shows ignorance towards the men who so badly want her love. Ultimately, ignorance leads to dehumanization. To begin, In Act 1 Scene 3, Antonio and Bassanio go to Shylock’s house and ask him for $3000(ducats). Shylock says “Fair sir, you spat on me on Wednesday last, you spurn’d me such a day, another time you call’d me dog: and for these courtesies I’ll lend you thus much monies” (Shakespeare I.iii.121-124). Shylock is now dehumanizing them by taunting them.
This is displayed perfectly in lines 35-38 (‘Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now to look so green and pale at what it did so freely?’) However, further into the scene, her line length increases which also mirrors her increase in confidence in front of her husband. She taunts Macbeth by calling him a ‘coward’ and suggests that because he won’t do it, he clearly doesn’t love her (‘From this time, such I account thy love’ – lines 38-39). Lady Macbeth also compares Macbeth with the cat in the adage which wanted to eat fish, but didn’t because it didn’t want to get its feet wet.
Goblin Market: Sexuality in the Eyes of Women Christina Rossetti’s poem “Goblin Market” delves into subjects of femininity that, during her time, is not thoroughly explored. Other works focused on the viewpoints of men, the so-called stronger, dominating sex; Margaret Homan extensively discusses how the subject and subjectivity are ultimately represented through men. Rossetti, in her poem, overturns the norms of subjectivity in the sense of romance and desire. It is an exploration of various feminine issues ranging from unrequited, unattainable desire to lesbianism through a close sisterly connection. Rossetti enters ‘no man’s land’ by switching the role of masculinity and femininity in “Goblin Market”, at the same time probing into unmentionable, taboo topics.
Speaking to the Friar Lawrence of the suggestion to use dead/undead poison, Juliet replies, “Give me, give me! O tell me not of fear”(IV.iv.121) One can see that Juliet is a quick, and not so thought out thinker when she is desperate. “What if it be a poison which the friar/subtly hath minister’d to have me dead/Lest in this marriage he should be dishonoured/Because he married me before to Romeo?/I fear it is, and yet me thinks it should not?”(IV.iii.24-28) Momentarily one can see that Juliet does think of consequences, but she always lets herself believe that everything is for the best. She easily convinces herself that it all will work out in the end. Thought when things do not work out and Juliet finds Romeo dead, she abruptly makes the decision to kill herself.
William Shakespeare establishes Benedick’s character by using diction and imagery to show his changed viewpoint on marriage. Benedick is strongly opinionated and rarely ever let’s his guard down when it comes to feelings or love. After he overhears that Beatrice is in love with him, he ponders what to do. The characterization is established through diction, “And wise, but for loving me; by my troth it is not addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her!” (II.3.235-237). He is saying that is might not be wise for loving him, but he swears it won’t be stupid for he is going to be “horribly” in love with her.
Calpurnia contrasts to Caesar because she shows great care for her husband and listens to him intently. Caesar, on the other hand, is much more skeptical about what she tells him and believes more what his male counterparts say. Portia differs from her husband, Brutus, because when she attempts to communicate with him, he prefers to keep his feelings inside. There is yet a further concept Shakespeare is alluding to by inserting Calpurnia and Portia into the play: he is insinuating that men cannot thrive without the presence women, and, when they go unnoticed and are ignored, tragedy is the only possible conclusion. Firstly, the role of Calpurnia as Caesar’s virtuous wife is so greatly important in her belief in superstitions that she actually forewarns him about his death.
‘Was the hope drunk, Wherein you dress’d yourself?’ ‘When you durst do it, then you were a man.’ She questions if he is a man or a mouse, if he loves her and says that she is stronger than him. She doesn’t stop there though. When Macbeth tried to get out of killing the King. She says, ‘ I have given suck, and know How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn As you done to this.’ Macbeth could not take all this so decides to agree, but he won’t fully commit. If Lady Macbeth had not been so vulgar and questioned him about being a man and if he loved her, Macbeth would not have gone through with killing the