Unrequited love

aving to experience the rejection of love can be very painful and devastating for one who has had a deep desire towards their beloved. In the Play Twelfth Night by Williams Shakespeare we experienced first hand the effect of unrequited love and the impact it has on characters, such as Orsino. A theme portrayed in the play is the affects of love as the cause of suffering. While Orsino is characterized as a hopeless romantic we are quick to see how he transforms and develops as a character in the…

What is Love? Shannon L. Alder (author of 300 Questions novels) being the sage she is, has her own concept on unrequited love itself: “Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: "Why can 't you see who I truly am?". Her idea of the mindset belonging to those suffering a desire-filled heart, which connects to the theme of love in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. His depiction of affection takes place in the 1600’s, centering around siblings Viola and Sebastian crash near…

disguised identity. Taking place in Illyria, the comedy centers around the protagonist Viola who disguises herself as a male for her safety, but to also win the affections of Duke Orsino who is hopelessly in love with Countess Olivia. Various love triangles form, resulting in unrequited love throughout the band of characters. The play ends with an unfortunate group of characters each a tragically unsatisfactory lover. The characters of Orsino, Olivia, and Caesario are presented as characters who…

Ballads are narrative poems that are meant to be sung. Traditionally, ballads follow common characteristic and themes that identify them as ballads. Some themes found in ballads are unrequited love, heroic deeds, and humorous arguments. These themes differ from one another, showcasing that ballads are very diverse but can be identified. Alternatively, common characteristics found in traditional ballads are the rhythmic schemes, repetition, and narrative. Modern-day ballads still follow these…

The diction William Yeats uses in The Song of Wandering Aengus helps communicate the melancholic lust of an unrequited love. The first stanza Yeats begins with a fast paced, positive. In his he depicts the flying of moths, but then next he goes on to compare moths to stars "moth-like stars were flickering", he states. Stars are considered to light the dark sky, and to be beautiful or create beautiful shapes. Moths are bugs however, bugs which come and swarm sources of light and can usually be…

Joe. Pip comes from a common household, but has always been satisfied with his normal life. However, that all changes when Pip finds himself stealing food for a convict and falling for Estella, the adopted daughter of a wealthy woman. From his unrequited love and act of thievery, he strays of the path of his humble beginnings to a wealthy and sophisticated life in London provided by a secret benefactor. As years pass by, Pip learns that his desire for Estella has made his life progressed to…

Hamlet be so cruel to Ophelia? Ophelia told Laertes that Hamlet was touching her waist and kissing her. Later on Hamlet told Ophelia that he no longer loved her. Throughout the play Shakespeare uses irony, mood, and tone to develop the themes of unrequited love and betrayal. In Act 3 scene 1 Shakespeare uses situational irony to show how Hamlet no longer loved Ophelia. Hamlet tells Ophelia “If you marry, I’ll give you this curse as your wedding present—be as clean as ice, as pure as the driven…

- That's just crazy. - You don't get to choose who your muse is. - The connection just happens. - But Angela? Come on! Sometimes the most inappropriate relationships... are the ones that inspire us the most. You know what they say about unrequited love. Stop right there! You're totally getting carried away. Deny it all you want, but from what I've seen, that girl brings out the best in you. Deny it all you want, but from what I've seen, that girl brings out the best in you. Look how empty…

Sylvia Plath has written poetry that fully explores the profound depth of the human psyche. Through her use of confessional poetry and psychic landscape, her poetry delves into the multifaceted layers of the human condition. Plath herself came across as a very complicated and perplexing individual, and in her style of writing, she conveys the inner state of her mind. To read her poetry without the context of her mental state, few readers could comprehend the intensity and compelling suffering…

from being human to love, time, war and religion. Still, in other poems, Auden emphasizes the necessity of moving on a difficult position. As a consequence, I will examine to what extent Auden explores the suffering that comes from being human in his poems. Firstly, Auden uses unrequited love to challenge the cliché of perfect love in order to demonstrate how we can suffer when we are not loved back. In “The more loving one”, the reader can see the process of evolution of love presented in a…