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    they are put through in love and marriage, why do some women jump right back into the water only to find themselves catching another piranha? In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, the reader is taken through the development of Janie from her early life to her later years. You can read as she struggles with love and finding her own voice in a time of racism and inequality between both races and genders. We watch her struggle to find her “pear tree image” of love through several…

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    Life is full of love and hate. Love is widely considered the beautiful side of life, while hate is thought of as the ugly side. With this popular view on love, people might not realize the evil it can imbed in those who experience it. Robert Browning’s poems “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” both depict how the speakers commit terrible acts when their possessive and obsessive love towards their women becomes too strong. The speakers of the poems both kill their lovers as they share a…

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    when Teacake “just slapped her around a bit to show he was boss” (140). Although Janie is forced to live under this overbearing control, she eventually realizes she can live without men telling her how to live her life. When Joe, her second husband dies Janie is not as sad as expected because she “likes being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine” (86). For once in Janie’s life, she can experience freedom without having the control of a man over her life. Although, her husband was…

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    four, terrible incidents occur in the world: the 1st wave (lights out), the 2nd wave (surf’s up), the 3rd wave (pestilence), and the 4th wave (silencers). Cassie, the main character, survives through these first four waves. Each person in her family dies except for her little brother. When her brother is taken, she tries her hardest to find and return to him.…

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    Orpheus: Poem Analysis

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    The play was very similar to a poem I used to read called Dontes inferno. I love that it’s a sad and dark play it is most definitely a tragedy. The way I feel after watching it made me die inside. I love the person I am currently with and I am planning on getting married to her, like in the play and yet I know that we can die anytime and anywhere. I cannot imagine the sadness of the loss of a friend or a person I love is what hurts me the most. The play is something I got really personal with…

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    The conflict of love was the main focus in three of Kate Chopin 's stories. The Storm involves a secret and quick affair between two past lovers; Calixta and Alce. The Story of an Hour involves a woman named Louise Mallard, who finds out her husband is dead and she is so overrun with joy that her heart gives out and she dies. And the last story, Desiree 's Baby, involves the heartbreak of the century; Desiree 's husband falls out of love with her. Now the question of these stories is; who loved…

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    King Lear exiles Cordelia his only daughter that truly loves him. The fool is wise and reasonable, while Lear, who is supposed to be a wise, is lost and confused. Symbolism: The King's crown symbolizes his power and when he gives away his power and loses his crown all he is left with is a bald head. The storm…

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    Many people have dissimilar perspectives on the idea of love. Some individuals may carry an attitude of hopefulness and faith in love; however, others may be uncertain of his or her beloved which could lead to jealousy. In the poems “XLIII,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “My Last Duchess,” by Robert Browning, the idea of love exists but the viewpoints are in contrast with each other. The speaker in the poem “XLIII” holds the attitude of positivity and deep affection, while the speaker in…

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    Stories of love have been told many different ways. We tell them in ways that are so fascinating that we think it could not have been possible. Some stories of love between couples we know very well are fictional, and some of them happen in the real world. Fiction or not, it is their stories that have an impact on how we choose to believe in love and how we perceive the stories of these well-known couples. It seems that these couples were sometimes not meant to be together due to outside forces…

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    In the tear jerker movie of the summer, Louisa Clark and Will Traynor, fell deeply in love on the big screen in, Me Before You. In case you missed it, here’s what you need to know; Louisa and Will, two mid twenty adults, are both from a small English town. Will is from the richest family, which is probably why he is always out traveling, and Louisa never leaves town, always working to help her family live day to day. Louisa, otherwise known as Lou, is a lovely, type A, outgoing girl who is…

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