Romance novels

demonstrate physical as well as psychological grotesqueness. Carson McCullers continues her art of grotesque in her other novels too. The Ballad of the Sad Café is one of the most important grotesque characters McCullers created and it is generally agreed that Amelia’s grotesque tragic tale is an indirect presentation of the novelist’s own personal life. In this autobiographical novel, she analysis the strange Amazonian female’s relationship with the two men and traces the cause of her…

Attachment is an emotional relationship that involves an exchange of comfort, care, and pleasure, as well as it is an important part of romantic love, as attachment styles influence relationships. The main focus of this essay is to compare and contrast the following romantic attachments, which includes the Attachment Theory and Interpersonal Theories of attraction. Firstly, this essay will provide a brief description of both theories and apply the theories to interpersonal attraction and…

[Enter ROMEO] Romeo If I can trust my dreams, then some joyful news is coming soon. Love rules my heart, and all day long a strange feeling has been making me cheerful. I had a dream that my lady came and found me dead. It’s a strange dream that lets a dead man think! She came and brought me back to life by kissing my lips. I rose from the dead and was an emperor. Oh my! How sweet it would be to actually have the woman I love, When merely thinking about love makes me so happy. [Enter Romeo’s…

Cate: Lysander and Helena Avery: Demetrius and Hermia Lines 190-345 Lysander: I had to find Helena as quickly as I could because I love her. Why are you looking for me? Do you think I don’t like you anymore? Hermia: What you are saying must be false. Helena: Hermia, you are trying to trick me too! You are all trying to play this trick on me. Hermia, why would you do this to me, we have been friends forever! You are like a sister to me! Why do you want to destroy our friendship to hurt me!…

cultural conundrum that pits desire to unleash, through love, the purest form of life against feigned compliance to societal conditions. In hindsight, upon reading its synopsis, it would be easy to assign it a status as one of the typical sanctimonious romance stories that carry in full force a specific ideological morale throughout them and shove it down the reader’s throat.To the contrary, Chekhov does not posit an objective meaning; he merely puts forward a story, and instead leaves it to…

With Valentine’s Day just behind us, we are reminded of love and when we think of the character that best represents love the first thing that comes to mind is Cupid. You can’t go to a store during the holiday season without seeing the image of Cupid on cards, stuffed toys, candy boxes, and flower vases. Cupid was one of the minor Roman Gods. Although we don’t know his exact birth we do know he was born on Mount Olympus, Cupid is the son of Venus and Mercury. Venus is the goddess of love…

The main love interests in the productions for Kat and Katerina are Patrick and Petruchio. Patrick and Petruchio share many similarities, including being an outsider that no one really knows as well as having to chase after the main character (Kat and Katerina). Patrick and Petruchio have the hardest job in the productions as they must become romantically entangled to Kat and Katerina so that Bianca can date her various suitors. In both, the play and the film Patrick and Petruchio end up taming…

“A mean submissive passion is conveyed” when passionate love usurps Angellica’s pride (Behn, 5.1.279). With this imagery, Angellica expresses her upset at her heart’s betrayal of feeling love towards Wilmore. The word “mean” demonstrates a harsh and relentless perception of how love wrongs her; it forces her to relinquish her independency and pride by making her submit to that passion. Love thus tyrannizes Angellica and creates a sour interpretation of the idiom “Love conquers all.” With this…

her weight of costs and rewards. The possibility of getting caught in a lie was less costly than the reward, or pleasantry, of going out for drinks with her friend, even though her husband would not like it. Similarly, Harry’s decision to begin a romance with his coworker weighed the costs of Sue finding out about Krista against the possibility of a new relationship with her. Earlier in the relationship, however, Sue also weighed her costs and rewards on the…

The Theme of ‘Uncertainty’ in Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot is the English translation of the famous post war French play En Attendant Godot by Samuel Beckett written between 1948 and 1949. The plot of the play revolves around two tramps- Vladimir and Estragon who waits for the arrival of an acquaintance named “Godot”. However, Godot never comes and throughout the play, these two tramps engage themselves in various discussions, activities, and encounters. Being a play that belongs to the…