Similarities Between 'All The Pretty Horses And Porphyria's Lover'

In the works of Othello, All the Pretty Horses, and Porphyria's Lover, the authors show how love can affect a person's emotions and destroy them. People's feelings can make life so much better and build them up, but it can also tear them down. What makes love destructive? People are controlled by their emotions and act upon them. Feelings such as fear and jealousy can cause one to fall apart. get the wrong impression of a person and do physical and emotional harm. Shakespeare shows how jealousy can ruin such a pure love and have tragedy come about in the play Othello. In Porphyria's lover, Browning let's obsession takes over and causes the lovers to end in a tragedy. John Cole learns that his love destroys the family life of his partner Alejondra in All the a pretty horses. Being fond of a person can be a great thing, but it can always take a turn for the worst. In Othello and Porphyria's lover the relationships end with death. The Moor in Shakespeare's play puts his trust into others and let them persuade his thoughts on his wife, causing him to kill her. “Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light” (5.2.6-7). The villain got in his head and assured him that she was cheating on him , when in fact she wasn’t. Desdemona tried to inform Othello, but he already had his mind made on what he was going to do. “ And have you mercy too! I never did offend you in my life, never loved Cassio but with such general warranty of …show more content…
In All the Pretty Horses the relationship is torn apart by Alejandra's family Values. This leaves both Cole and and Alejandra heart broken. “There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot” (McCormac). The heartache that comes with this is still destructive to a person. All three of the stories end in a