Both Barrett-Browning's poems Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) and Fitzgerald's novel The Gnat Gatsby (1926) use an exploration of idealised love to challenge and affirm their contexts. The texts challenge their social contexts, Barrett-Browning suggesting the power of love to challenge Victorian gender roles and Fitzgerald to challenge the American Dream, while also affirming their ideological contexts of Victorian positivism and modernism respectively in relation to the ability to understand meaning in relation to love. As such, while the contexts have significantly changes, the idea that everything changes is not wholly correct, as idealised love remains a key concern, and the composer's response is a consistent challenge to social but
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Middle Class women in Victorian England were seen as symbols of innocence and purity, relegated to the domestic and excluded from the notionally masculine issues of religion, eroticism and ethics. In exploring the idealised love of her persona, Barrett-Browning explodes these conventions, writing in the male dominated sonnet form and expressing her love in clear erotic and religious terms. This can be seen in Sonnet XXI where she describes her love she further says that this is a “ implying that that perfect love cannot be found on earth but the pure gold love will be found in heaven. This expresses her love in clear religious terms and thus challenges the role of women. The depiction of powerful erotic love as preferable to heavenly love seen in "Sonnet 23" through the erotic imagery of " juxtaposed to " similarly conveys her love in erotic and spiritual terms, reinforced through the transcendent aspects of her love seen in ` Such an exploration of idealised love can thus be seen as a clear challenge to her social context, reflecting how the challenge to this context and the theme of idealised love do not …show more content…
From the Dec/oral/on of Independence (1776), the idea of all men are equal and through hard work can achieve greatness — the American dream, has been a key part of the American psyche. In the 1920s, growth in mass production and consumerism seemed to be making this a reality for more and more people. Fitzgerald, however, challenges this through the tainting of Gatsby's idealised love for Daisy, a symbol of the American Dream. Fitzgerald is seen to admire this idealism, a scene of Gatsby and Daisy's past romance expressing its vitality and nurturing qualities through the metaphor of breast milk seen in However, such idealised love is tainted, seen in the realisation that Daisy's voice, an image of her allure is ," while she fails to love up to Gatsby's romantic demands and leave Tom, dramatically caught between the two and admitting " With Gatsby's death, Fitzgerald suggests that such idealism is tainted by consumerism and unattainable in 1920s America despite its appeal, seen in the metaphor of the green light as
Middle Class women in Victorian England were seen as symbols of innocence and purity, relegated to the domestic and excluded from the notionally masculine issues of religion, eroticism and ethics. In exploring the idealised love of her persona, Barrett-Browning explodes these conventions, writing in the male dominated sonnet form and expressing her love in clear erotic and religious terms. This can be seen in Sonnet XXI where she describes her love she further says that this is a “ implying that that perfect love cannot be found on earth but the pure gold love will be found in heaven. This expresses her love in clear religious terms and thus challenges the role of women. The depiction of powerful erotic love as preferable to heavenly love seen in "Sonnet 23" through the erotic imagery of " juxtaposed to " similarly conveys her love in erotic and spiritual terms, reinforced through the transcendent aspects of her love seen in ` Such an exploration of idealised love can thus be seen as a clear challenge to her social context, reflecting how the challenge to this context and the theme of idealised love do not …show more content…
From the Dec/oral/on of Independence (1776), the idea of all men are equal and through hard work can achieve greatness — the American dream, has been a key part of the American psyche. In the 1920s, growth in mass production and consumerism seemed to be making this a reality for more and more people. Fitzgerald, however, challenges this through the tainting of Gatsby's idealised love for Daisy, a symbol of the American Dream. Fitzgerald is seen to admire this idealism, a scene of Gatsby and Daisy's past romance expressing its vitality and nurturing qualities through the metaphor of breast milk seen in However, such idealised love is tainted, seen in the realisation that Daisy's voice, an image of her allure is ," while she fails to love up to Gatsby's romantic demands and leave Tom, dramatically caught between the two and admitting " With Gatsby's death, Fitzgerald suggests that such idealism is tainted by consumerism and unattainable in 1920s America despite its appeal, seen in the metaphor of the green light as