Relationships are hard and confusing. You don't know how they are going to end up. You also don’t know if you will marry the person you are dating. The best story that explains this is “The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen. This is because the message is more revealed through the dialogue and characters in the story.
In “The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen, the message is war doesn't just affect the soldiers, but also their loved ones. Mrs. Drover has lost her lover in the war and she still hasn’t gotten over him. It states in the story, “Her reluctance to look again at the letter came from the fact that she felt intruded upon—and by someone contemptuous of her ways. However, in the tenseness preceding the fall of rain she read it: It was a …show more content…
A former lover returns after a very long absence. The former lover finds her with a husband and a baby. The former lover lures her to leave her husband and baby to come with him to go on a ship. It states in the poem, ““If I was to leave my husband dear, And my two babes also, Oh, what have you to take me to, If with you I should go?” “I have seven ships upon the sea-- The eighth brought me to land-- With four-and-twenty bold mariners, And music on every hand.” She has taken up her two little babes, Kissed them on cheek and chin:“Oh, fare ye well, my own two babes, For I’ll never see you again” (Ballard 20). Her lover informs her that the hill is heaven where they are not bound. Instead they are destined to go to hell. The former lover then breaks the ship in half with his bare hands and feet, drowning them both.
The similarities from both stories are they both talk about past relationships. They show throughout both stories that the women are struggling trying to get over there past lover. It also shows how the women are vulnerable and let the men get in there head. The differences from both stories are in “The Demon Lover” the characters are more defined. Another difference would be that in “The Demon Lover” the message is more clearer and easier to understand. In “The Daemon Lover” there aren’t really description to the characters other than the use of the words he or
In “The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen, the message is war doesn't just affect the soldiers, but also their loved ones. Mrs. Drover has lost her lover in the war and she still hasn’t gotten over him. It states in the story, “Her reluctance to look again at the letter came from the fact that she felt intruded upon—and by someone contemptuous of her ways. However, in the tenseness preceding the fall of rain she read it: It was a …show more content…
A former lover returns after a very long absence. The former lover finds her with a husband and a baby. The former lover lures her to leave her husband and baby to come with him to go on a ship. It states in the poem, ““If I was to leave my husband dear, And my two babes also, Oh, what have you to take me to, If with you I should go?” “I have seven ships upon the sea-- The eighth brought me to land-- With four-and-twenty bold mariners, And music on every hand.” She has taken up her two little babes, Kissed them on cheek and chin:“Oh, fare ye well, my own two babes, For I’ll never see you again” (Ballard 20). Her lover informs her that the hill is heaven where they are not bound. Instead they are destined to go to hell. The former lover then breaks the ship in half with his bare hands and feet, drowning them both.
The similarities from both stories are they both talk about past relationships. They show throughout both stories that the women are struggling trying to get over there past lover. It also shows how the women are vulnerable and let the men get in there head. The differences from both stories are in “The Demon Lover” the characters are more defined. Another difference would be that in “The Demon Lover” the message is more clearer and easier to understand. In “The Daemon Lover” there aren’t really description to the characters other than the use of the words he or