Romance

Before I started engaging in Hawthorne’s novel, The Blithedale Romance I had no concept of what utopian communities were. What is the purpose of utopian communities? What are they exactly? What would my utopian community look like? Utopian communities intend to be an idealistic society. The central objective of utopian communities tends to be contrasting, depending on the members of the community and what they want to accomplish. Roughly around the 1840’s the working class struggled because of…

When they are disappointed with their parents as they mature, they construct family romances - fantasizing about their “real” parents who are exceptional than their parents before they learn about sexuality or fantasizing about their mother’s affair and his “real” father after they gain some sexual knowledge. However, Freudian family romance turns nightmarish in an adopted child’s case like Joe’s. The child’s fantasy goes beyond the “family” and links up all potential…

Sundiata Graham The Blithedale Romance “The Blithedale Romance” is one of many of Nathaniel Hawthorne's grand works. It speaks the story of a group of utopians who travel out to change their failing, empty existence. They set off to live amongst the Blithedale community that was overseen by the famed Zenobia. They began with moral targets but the story ended in disaster. Careful study of the novel would display that really happened and that what Miles was saying might be two different things.…

How could one of the most notorious crime-couples be the example of true love? Contradictions aside, Bonnie and Clyde is a well-known biographical-romance story that depicts the lives of Bonnie and Clyde and their various robberies and outrageous adoration for one another. At a young age, Bonnie and Clyde met and fell in love instantly. Fascinated with delinquency, they proceeded to live out a life of crime, committing robberies and numerous acts of murder. Alas, their crime-spree and romantics…

2. How does medieval literature present the experience of romantic love? The romances of medieval literature are often very different from what a modern audience would expect from a ‘romance’ in the twenty first century. However, our modern conception of romance, and indeed ‘chivalry’, owe a lot to their medieval precursors. From the middle ages, the concept of courtly love, described by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as a “highly conventionalised code the prescribed the behaviour of ladies…

a U.S Navy sailor kissing a woman in a white dress affects the audience by conveying different emotions depending on the perspective of the audience. Logically, the image primarily portrays a feeling of romance, relief, and celebration; however some people argue that rather than an act of romance, it was actually in fact sexual assault, and the man kissed the woman without her consent. The simplicity of the image evokes an emotional response in the audience due to the dullness, seriousness,…

associated with many different things, but not all love has to be in regard with a physical person or thing. One type of love is Romance. Romance is more often than not paired with the idea of showing one’s feelings for another in a thoughtful, and sometimes sexual, manner. A man may prepare a romantic, fancy dinner for his wife after her long day at work. A woman may show romance by being affectionate or by wearing that skimpy little dress she knows her husband goes crazy over. Romantic love…

surprise that the director of Hellboy, Pan’s Labrynth, and the Devil’s Backbone, was able to create a romance film set in a haunted castle? Del Toro sets out to create a gothic romance complimented with shades of horror. Therefore, when you judge it as a gothic romance, you have one hell of a film. Many of the elements in this film will prove to you that this movie is in fact a member of the gothic romance genre. To get a sense of the story, after Edith’s father is brutally murdered, Edith and…

with studying. The only thing both Amory and Fitzgerald excelled at while in school was the Triangle Club, or the school newspaper. Amory Blaine’s first major romance is with the debutante Isabelle Borge who he “falls” in love with. To keep the romance blossoming Amory writes her multiple love letters with poetry, and talks of romance. Eventually Isabelle and Amory meet at his Prom where the Studs on his jacket bruised Isabelle’s’ neck. After the argument that ensued due to Amory finding humor…

the familiarity in pleasure for the water. His job is to safely transport cargo and people and he respects the hidden dangers of the lovely, meandering Mississippi River. To summarize, (transition to connect the analogy of the river with a romance) when a romance ends “all the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out…”(Twain) can be compared to Twain’s view of the river. Moments of sadness are highlighted by memories of laughter, whispered conversations, and soaring emotions to soften the…