Frome marries Zenobia Pierce prematurely, only to obviate “the mortal silence of…long imprisonment.” (Wharton, page 61) He wanted “the sound of a …voice” to fill the void on his farm. (Wharton, page 61) Likewise, Holden seeks conviviality with Sally Hayes though he dislikes her phoniness. He ends the “depress[ing]” date by calling Sally a “royal pain in the ass.”(Salinger, page 133) Both characters were merely looking for companionship in their otherwise lonely lives but both encounters ended badly, for Frome on a large scale and for Holden on a smaller scale. Undoubtedly, these rash acts to receive camaraderie illustrate the foolhardiness of the protagonists. They both abhor solitude but are unsure how to find viable friendship.
We all want that fairytale relationship that we see on tv and read about in books, for instance you could refer to a Nicholas Sparks novel and all the romantic things that the couples experience. The young couple sustained a lack of reality, many people may agree that they were in lust with one another other than being in love, both wanting to experience that certain romantic feeling. Neither China's nor Jeremy's parents were around when they were needed most, the
‘The Eve of St Agnes’ alludes to the legend of St Agnes’ Eve, where women saw visions of their future husband if they performed certain rituals before sleeping. The idea of rituals and visions adds an ambiguity to the tale, and the mysterious establishment of such visions generates a sense of mystic and magic. This hints at Negative Capability as this ethereal tale is incapable of being constricted by science, thereby creating a magic and wondrous atmosphere. Keats frequented in the idea of Negative Capability, and this may have prompted him to write about the mystical phenomena on St Agnes’ Eve, as he recurrently delved into the realms of idealism and fantasy. Furthermore, the notion that girls will witness their future husbands adds a romantic and passionate feeling, endorsing Keats’ adherence to romanticism instead of rationalism.
September 21, 2011 Nothing But A Fantasy Oh, the joys of the grand and luxurious life. Some people are born into such a world while others work there entire lifetimes and never quite reach it. It is something we would all enjoy to experience but, we are all guilty of fantasying about such a carefree lifestyle. In the short story “The Necklace” translated by Edgar V. Roberts the character of Mathilde Loisel takes her fantasy of having such a luxurious lifestyle to another level. We can see through her thoughts the dangers of living your life in a fantasy constructed by your mind and thoughts.
In the first verse the lyric “She dreamt of para-para-paradise” appeared. This fits Jane perfectly because of her imagination and fascination with mythical and paranormal creatures. It would stand for her day dreaming, about how she would imagine ghosts and see herself differently in a mirror to be able to escape from reality. In the 6th verse the line “I know the sun must set to rise” refers to someone knowing that life has to get worse to be able to get better. This applies to Jane's life when her home life wasn't great and it just kept getting worse, until she got to go to Lowood and she liked Lowood more then home.
BRIAR ROSE-JANE YOLEN Yolen has created an ingenious story of great significance in Briar Rose. Aside from the novel itself being a fictional text, the book stresses the intrinsic importance of fairy tales to the responder. The resilience and power of these tales are emphasised as is the significance of true stories form the past. It is through the examination of the allegorical story told by Gemma and the characterisation used by Yolen that the concept of the hero and heroine is explored. Yolen has enabled her readers to understand the value of the past for the present and to witness both the true horrors as well as the acts of courage in her novel Briar Rose.
Fairytales tend to place a large deal of emphasis on love, romance and happy endings. Yolen ends the novel with Stan who is Becca’s boss and the person that has supported her throughout her quest kissing Becca when she arrives from Poland. However their relationship and romance is based in modern day reality rather than the cliché love at first sight from fairytales. We also see through Josef, that there are different types of love but because he was homosexual he was not able to love freely. The short marriage between Aron and Gemma in the woods represents a fairytale romance.
At point, during the chapter she gets very jealous of Gatsby which shows that she has some feelings towards him. Since, she seems very scared about him finding someone else who is younger and much prettier than her and will take over his heart and he will give her everything he can. And she won’t be the one that is really wanted by him, and he will stop trying to impress her. She doesn’t want to have the attention taken off her, since she seems to really enjoy it. Gatsby really exaggerated Daisy’s appearance and characteristics, seems like a fantasy but she does seem to get him ‘glowing’ and really happy so, to some extent she lives up to his
Steven turns into a awful man who knows he has the advantage of Ann for the night, “but in a storm like this you are not expecting john?” (236). Over and over Steven kept reminding her that John would not be coming home tonight but that he would not be coming at all. Ann began to be afraid of Steven but then she knew that he was a safe friend but he still had a fright among him, “there was something strange, almost terrifying, about this Steven and his quiet unrelenting smile” (237). The mood had some fear in it, what should Ann do. Steven seemed to be acting as if something was going to happen.
Similes are the most common figures of speech used in the novel; ‘…a hat which curved around her face like a materialising halo’. This light imagery is often associated with an almost religious experience as people are seen with halos like Arthur’s mother in chapters 12 and 13 and specifically in this quote, Lucy’s imagining of her mother in chapter 7. Although the language of the novel can come across as quite compelling to the audience, the overwrought lyrical prose can be quite tiring. The plot of the novel is obviously fictional with Lucy seeing her life as a series of photographs tortured into forced images by Jones, which can be hard for the HSC students to relate