Theme Essay – Love
Love is complicated, and not always happy. So many different views of love make it unpredictable and rather hard to classify. After examining many stories and poems throughout this unit I have noticed that love is obsessive, optimistic, and many other things. In several of the pieces of writing a lack of love was expressed, or love for the wrong reasons. Many of these stories ended in death, or heartbreak.
A major component of love is capacity of one’s ability to give or receive love. Obsession tends to result either in newfound love, or a restraining order. One specific short story, The Gun portrays obsession by love very well. Written by Craig Boyko, this was a love between a women and a pistol. She described the gun to be “breathtaking (with) such compactness”; as well she often stated “reasons for owning a gun.” Her love was not subjective to the object itself, but to what it could do in general. The main character fantasized of “blood and brains flying in a graceless arc” and killing her own husband while he slept. It was a disturbing love that the women shared with this weapon, and very strong.
Optimistic love : graceful and hopeful. Christopher Marlowe explores the idea of perfect love in his poem “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love”. The speaker writes to his love, asking her to “live with (him) and be (his) love”. It symbolizes romance with it’s caring vocabulary and shows optimism for the speaker and his life. We do not hear from the addressed love, however we can hope that this love blossomed into a long lasting relationship.
The Essay on Twelfth Night Love Orsino Story
Twelfth Night When Shakespeare wrote the story, Twelfth Night, what did his title mean This play is often referred to as a "festival" comedy, which means a comedy that is specially designed to take place on a festival or holiday. In this case of the "twelfth night," the feast of epiphany, or the last day of the Christmastide events, was his way of letting you figure out when this took place. The ...
“Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfish” is a poem of love between a cat and a goldfish. In children’s stories it is expressed that cat may catch fish with their paws and sometimes eat them; but in this excerpt written by Thomas Grey is about a cat protecting a certain goldfish. The cat resisted temptation of the fish’s “scaly armor’s Tyrian hue” and “fair round face (with) snowy beard”. The love required for the cat to resist the thing it was born for is unquestionable, and clearly shown in the words ‘spoken’ by this animal : “Not all that tempts your wand’ring eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize”.
Love isn’t always shared between 2 species, or a person and an object. One form of love shown in “The Masque of the Red Death” is a man’s love for time. Time isn’t something you can hold or measure your interest for, it is simply a subconscious theory. Prince Prospero’s love for order explained the arrangement of rooms in his palace. The curving hallway made it so your “vision embraced but little more than one at a time”, and the colours resembled days of the week. Apart from the weekdays, these colours went from light to dark which to Prince Prospero was a reminder of life. Time is life in the sense that when you no longer have time, your life is over. Perhaps this theory is what he thought of in creating the last room of his palace; with “the panes scarlet- a deep blood colour”. “In none of the seven apartments was there any lamp or candelabrum” because each room, apart from the last, was lit from the windows. This was how the prince lived his life due to his love for order and correctness. This could also be a defense mechanism, a way for him to think he knows what to expect when his life reaches the last room.
With all of this talk of love we have to remember that so many people lack the ability to love; not just one another but themselves as well. “The Silent Generation” is a prime example of how people lack the ability to love anything. This article talks about children in the modern century not having any “apathy (as) they are not easily moved to enthusiasm”. It’s noticeable in everyday life that kids have no love for each other or themselves, and no desire to do anything requiring effort. Thorton Wilder is an extraordinary writer for the fact that he can address the idea in which “young people grew up in the fluctuating tides of indeterminate authority.” Described is the lack of motivation and determination in anything outside of nothing.
The Essay on Writers Life Line Time Death
A Comparison Between Shakespeare? s Sonnet 73 AndA Comparison Between Shakespeare? s Sonnet 73 And William Shakespeare, who lived during the second half of the 16 th century and the early 17 th century, wrote sonnets 73 and 12, both fourteen-line poems written to an anonymous lover. Similarly, the sonnets discuss the themes of time, love, and finally death. Both sonnets use A BAB rhyme, meaning ...
Love is unpredictable in every way but one, and that is a lack of love. With the understanding that one is not ‘capable’ to love, you expect nothing and receive nothing. Some expect too much and take on an obsessive side to love. Others may just be optimistic about love and full of hope for a happy ending. However, not very many happy endings were displayed in the poems and short stories read in this unit. Most endings were of heartbreak or death, yet with so much love. We read of death by love, and divorce because of love for another.
By: Erin Borgford
October 22, 2010
