Attention Getter/Hook: “Pygmalion gazed in amazement, burning with love for what was in likeness a body” (1104). Those were the words of Ovid, a man with the ability to represent a poem with meaning.
Background Information: The captivating tone and style of Ovid illustrates the struggle between two different relationships. Pygmalion struggles with the obsession of his ivory statue that was created to personify his perfect women. In the progress of sculpting the women an attraction begins to grow toward the statue. Myrrha also struggles with her feelings which she has developed for her father. After attempts to ignore these immoral feelings her deep love for her father overrules and ends up sleeping with her father.
Thesis statement: Ovid’s
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Supporting Paragraph 1:
Topic Sentence: Love is the principal theme in Ovid’s Book X [Pygmalion].
Supporting information (comprehensive notes, not entire paragraph): The story of “Pygmalion”, illustrates an obsessed artist yearning for an ideal love. Expressing unreal expectations of love is shown through Pygmalion’s admiration for his ivory statue. Unnatural love is found within Myrrha’s fondness for her father. The attempt to vanish the immoral feelings were not resolved as the desire for her father expands.
Quotes you think you will want to use (do not forget page number so you can find them later):
“Gave it a figure better than any living women could boast of” (1104)
“Wretched am I, who hadn’t the luck to be born there, injured by nothing more than mischance of location!”
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Transition sentence: As for the next theme, imagination vs reality is represented. Supporting Paragraph 3:
Topic Sentence: In addition, imagination vs reality is seen as a reoccurring theme.
Supporting information (comprehensive notes, not entire paragraph): In the beginning of the story, Pygmalion illustrates a piece of art through his imagination. His growing love for the statue ultimately brings it to life. The transforming relationship between imaginations to reality is portrayed through the sculpture that Pygmalion created. At this point, his ideal love of a women became real. Myrrha, in the other hand, was seen as deceiving her father in order to gain his love.
Quotes you think you will want to use (do not forget page number so you can find them later):
“He seeks to win its affections with words and with presents”. (1104)
“In a crime against nature which she repeated the following night and thereafter.” (1009) Conclusion should be a synopsis of the information given above. Closing
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Some interesting quotes and passages that I found were: on page 3 it said that the Earl of Essex, Elizabeth’s lover, was once her first cousin twice removed. Another one I read was on page 91. It was a quote that was quoted by Portia to Bassano, “but I fear you speak upon the rack, where men enforced do speak anything.
Miner, Margaret, and Hugh Rawson. The New International Dictionary of Quotations . 3 rd ed. New York: Signet, 2000.
Below you will find a good example of a pull quote from Glamour magazine. This one sentence can cause a reader to stop and read it. If the pull quote interests the person enough, he or she may read the balance of the article. The following are some guidelines for doing pull quotes: need to be thought provoking, need to be quick bites of information, and need to include only a single thought.
As the great Philosopher Nietzsche proclaims boys always resembles their father. Thus I have analyzed the similarities and the traces of parents on their off-springs. And literary creations of them seem to me that they are the mirrors of their real selves. As Oscar Wilde reveals in De Profundis: "Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol." (93) so art symbolizes man. And his art is the symbol of his personality just as Marius the Epicurian is the symbol of Walter Pater's. Consequently, art harbours not only readers and life but also the creators of them. In fiction, Words speak two times; one reveals plot, the other reveals author; whatever a literary men writes, he writes himself but nothing else...
Even if you change some of the words of the quote, it is still considered the words of the author. A paraphrase must be cited as well as a quote. All quotes must have the name of the author and the page number of the quote in parentheses after the quotation marks.
Psychoanalysis can be used in many ways to critique literature and other texts. Any text can be psychoanalysed as a linguistic whole, or subdivided into smaller segments, such as the genre, the authorial psychoanalysis, or used to interpret the psyche of the characters. The “unwritten text” can be psychoanalysed as well, by using a more Structuralist approach and reading between the lines, while noticing the text’s patterns, dyads, and symbols. Psychoanalysis of themes in fairy tales can lead to surprising and often not child appropriate interpretations of children’s literature. Although, Freudian psychoanalysis is a helpful tool in obtaining an added perspective, it is dubitable, as there is no way of proving or disproving the unconscious. It should not be considered as the only mode for reading texts, but rather as one of many critical theory approaches, because psychoanalysis is an interpretation, a subjective plethora of meanings. However, psychoanalysis can help critics to broaden their viewpoint, and deduce grains of “Truth” from the analysis. Author, themes, and characters will be analyzed through the Freudian lens, to illustrate that texts can have many meanings, and can be viewed as a subconscious representation of societal values, repressed desires, and displacements.
Hippolytus is secretly in love with his father’s political prisoner, Aricia, and is almost at the point of losing all of the unloving pride that he is so proud to have maintained all his life. At the same time, his step-mother, Phaedra, is almost at her breaking point of revealing her overwhelming love for her step-son. Just like any normal teenager, Hippolytus craves the relationship with the pretty young girl and is appalled at the thought of the relationship that his step-mother is attempting to pursue. Likewise, in Tartuffe there is a young man, Damise, who longs to marry the sister of his sister’s future husband. Damise’s father, Orgon, calls of the wedding between Damise’s sister and her fiancé, Voliere, and instead tells her she will marry his deceitful guest, Tartuffe. Thus, it becomes impossible for Damise to marry Voliere’s sister and Damise is appalled by the relationship of his sister and Tartuffe. Tartuffe, the hypocrite praised by Orgon, tries to warm up to Orgon’s wife when he is not around, making another forbidden relationship that Damise does not want to
The fantastic tale “Was It a Dream?” by Guy de Maupassant is a story narrated from the first point of view, in which the main character, who remains anonymous, describes his desperation and overwhelming grief since the loss of his loved one. He also relates a supernatural event he experienced, while in the cemetery, in which he finds out the truth about his significant other’s feelings but refuses to accept it, or at least tries to ignore it. Maupassant’s readers may feel sympathy towards the narrator as they perceive throughout the story his tone of desperation, and are able to get to the conclusion that he was living a one-sided relationship. Maupassant achieves these effects in the readers through the use of figures of speech, like anonymity, symbolism and imagery, and the structured he employed in the story.
The first quotation of my quotation diary is by the narrator, Nick Carraway during the beginning of the novel, “I participated in that delayed Teutonic Migration known as the Great War... so I decided to go East and learn the bond business”(3). This particular quote outlines one of the main themes of the entire work, the American Dream. This is showcased by Nick moving away from his comfortable home and moving east in order to make a life of success for himself to in his way pursue happiness. The second quote can be explained when paired with another quote later in the novel, “a colossal affair by any standard-
(lines 47-50). These four lines contain Ovid’s discussion on the implications of achieving one’s desires yet finding oneself unable to benefit from and/or appreciate them, and Ovid applies this theme to his own experience of impotence, wherein he casts his masculinity as the inaccessible, unusable possession. “What good does it do for Phemius to sing to deaf ears? / What good’s a painting to Thamyras?” (lines 61-62).
The hilarious play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, tells the twisted love story of four Athenians who are caught between love and lust. The main characters: Hermia, Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius are in a ‘love square’. Hermia and Lysander are true love enthusiasts, and love each other greatly. Demetrius is in love with Hermia, and Helena, Hermia’s best friend, is deeply and madly in love with Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander try to elope in the woods because Egeus, Hermia’s father, disapproves of Lysander. Helena, hearing about their plans, tells Demetrius, and all four of them end up in the woods where Lysander’s quotation, “The course of true love never did run smooth”(28), becomes extremely evident due to several supernatural mix-ups, authority, and jealousy.
The relationship between Demetrius and Hermia is problematic, in that Demetrius is seeking the affections of Hermia, while she is in love with Lysander. However, Hermia’s father approves of Demetrius and tries to force her to marry him, but Hermia refuses because of her love for Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1.1.22-82). Lysander points out the flaw in the situation through this comment, “You have her father 's love, Demetrius –/Let me have Hermia 's. Do you marry him,” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1.1.93-94). The second flawed relationship is between Lysander and Helena, as a result of an enchantment put on Lysander that made him fall in love with Helena. Helena does not want the affections of Lysander, but rather the love of Demetrius, and believes that Lysander is taunting her. In addition, this relationship creates tensions because Hermia is in love with Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2.2.109-140). Both relationships are not desirable due to a lack of mutual admiration and the creation of non-peaceful and unsatisfying
The poets integrated ?metaphysical conceits? as focal parts of these poems. Along with these, they used effective language as a basis for their convincing arguments, they included subjects of periodical importance (e.g. ?courtship? and ?religion?), and use very clever structures that are manipulated in order to make the poem read in the desired way. The very clear indication of the theme in question was strongly aided by the way in which the personas portrayed the emotions they felt and the way they showed their attitudes towards the subject. Considering all these factors, the poets made critical arguments to the mistresses in order to alter their views, thus changing their minds, on denying the poets the sex that they desired so strongly.
The first question that arises in this play is the order and the disorder of society. For instance, the social order of this society emphasizes that the father must pick his daughter’s husband and that he should enforce this for the benefit of his family. However, in the beginning of this play, I was able to observe how a family 's reputation is threatened when a young woman wishes to marry her one true love against her dad 's will. Yet, all of this changes when the four lovers find themselves lost in the woods far away from the ordered and the hierarchical society. Once in the woods Lysander and Demetrius find themselves to be in love with Helena instead of Hermia. This confusion now causes Hermia to feel unwanted by both Lysander and Demetrius and jealous of Helena, as she is the one that has the attention of both men. This disorder of relationships also happens within the fairies when the queen of the fairies falls in love with a human who is mistakenly being transformed into an