Love Never Dies

How Love May Not Provide Successful Comfort Warzones can be incredibly violent, terrifying, and gruesome places. Especially during the Vietnam War, when soldiers had very long deployments in horrid conditions, one major way to deal with the difficult environment was to remember that there was a world beyond it. Even in civilian life, a very positive way to deal with stress is to remember that there is a life outside of the stressor. In the short stories in his book The Things They Carried, Tim…

women are affected in society when losing their virginity. Elena, the older sister possesses an optimistic view of losing her virginity in which represents the fantasy that society has created whereas women can give her sexual purity to a man that loves her unconditionally and that they will be together forever. Anaïs on the other hand, the young sister, has a much more cynical, pessimistic view in which represents the reality whereas the first penetration…

Janie is clearly upset with her marriage when she proclaims, “ ‘Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him, but Ah don’t. Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it’ ” (Hurston 40). When she explains how she thought marriage brought love and how she needed instruction on how to find this love, it reveals her young age and innocence. Hurston clearly tries to make the reader feel bad for Janie (pathos) because of the loneliness and unsatisfied emotions that Janie portrays. I cannot…

The Seemingly Random Nature of Dying The first book of the Colum McCann’s novel, Let the Great World Spin, is comprised of four interconnected stories, or chapters. Although each of these chapters would make sense on their own, and each has different central characters, the stories do end up connecting to each other plot wise, such as when Lara and Blaine get in a car accident killing Corrigan and the resulting interaction. However, it is just as important to notice the thematic, motific and…

Betjeman’s idea of an optimal female is describe in all three poems, he represents all three women in what seems to be a socially acceptable. The women created in the poems appear as unusual and interesting yet administer a sense of power amongst them. He describes them as ‘nonchalantly’, shocked-headed’ and egocentric ‘listen to a lady’s cry’’. Betjeman prominently describes them as ‘feminine’ which is defined as ‘a set of culturally defined characteristics ‘ looking through the lens of society…

This goes beyond the bond of “brotherhood between people who’ve fed at the same breast” as Ali says, and beyond their actual brotherhood through Baba. They are tied to each other by devotion, loyalty, friendship, and what can even be described as love. Even with everything that befalls the two of them and all of the times Amir betrays Hassan, the bond is still there. They both stand before the fortune teller and neither hear his truth (74). They both feed “from the same breast” listening to “old…

vacillating life in regards to love and life. Felicite’s life can be more readily viewed as a decline, which can be best seen when examining the objects of her affection. From going to a lover, who is a man which would have been an appropriate match, to a stuffed parrot, the reader can examine the gradual decline of Felicite’s life as the object of her affection changes, as well as her status of grieving for the lost one. In her younger years, Felicite falls in love with a local boy who, after…

kinship but also as an aid in difficult times. This does not however, insist that one should seek friendship solely for personal gain. He continues by revealing three opinions that he finds true to the nature of friendship. The first being “we should love our friend…

of happiness after marriage. In other words, marriage won’t automatically make one happy. Lotto and Mathilde are both facing hardships in their life and get married in the pursuit to find happiness in one another. The marriage between the two young love birds flourishes as the time goes on, they do find happiness among one another but along the way they discover many issues about the real world. Lotto, which is short for Lancelot, is in college when he feels as if his life has no purpose and…

This is quite symbolic for Desdemona’s character and love for Othello throughout the play. She never has anything bad to say about Othello and she does not suspect him of trying to kill her until the very end. This shows that Desdemona is truly naively in love with Othello. Emilia behaves in the complete opposite way before and after she is stabbed. Instead of defending her husband, she defends her friend…