The poems Havisham and The Laboratory teach us that love and hatred are two of the most powerful yet contrasting emotions in this world. In both the poems they are 'loving to hate' and 'hating to love'. This means that when love is given it leaves us vulnerable , and if the love is not returned then it can turn to hate as quick as boiling water to steam. For both women in the poem have been rejected from their men mentally and physically, leaving them nothing but pain and the overwhelming desire of revengence. Both poems are written in the first person giving it a dramatic monologue.
The poem; The Laboratory is about a woman who has found out that her husband has been cheating on her with another woman. She goes to the apothecary to get a potion, which will poison the the woman who her husband is cheating with. After all this buying the potion, she discretely gives it to the woman who is cheating on her with her husband. She then goes to dance with the kings to celebrate that the 'cheat' is dead. Finally there is irony here, that she is now dancing with other men making it seem tha...
Many hearts are drawn to history's greatest love stories, such as Romeo and Juliet, Bonnie and Clyde, and Helen and Paris to name a few. One could argue that humanity’s way of finding happiness is to seek love. Pure, unadulterated love is one of the hardest feelings to acquire, but when one does, they’d do anything to keep it. Through Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and his characters, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, readers discover that this innate desire to be accepted and loved is both our most fatal flaw and our greatest virtue.
Blinding hate is more destructive to an individual than the act of being apathetic to their actions. A relationship is not affected by one's apathy unless you choose it to be, yet one that is bound by sheer hatred is oppressive. It is vital to not let mutual hate stem off hatred projected upon one, which in the end is more destructive. Markus Zusak sees a world revolves around the fact that outright dislike is more dangerous than one being indifferent to the unfortunate as shown in his book The Book Thief. Through the character Liesel, Zusak shows this through her relationship with her mum. Zusak also shows how being disliked is destructive through Max’s obsessive hatred towards his oppressed; the nazis. Zusak uses WW2 as the setting for his
..., shows what happens to the psyche of the individual who is shown no love in
It is said that Millay's later work is more of a mirror image of her life. This particular poem was written 1931, when she was thirty-nine. Unlike some of her earlier work this is not a humorous poem. It is very deep and meaningful.
An important element that is displayed in both love and hate is motivation. An example of this is portrayed in “A Note on My Son’s Face,” as the author states, “I wanted that face to die, to be reborn in the face of a white child” (35,36). This line displays a level of prejudice towards what is hers. Derricotte battles intense feelings of wanting a white looking child amongst a world where not being grateful for what she has is seen as hatred towards her son. She looks at the face of her black child and is filled with animosity for what he looks like and what he will become. This is where the motivational factor comes into play, and where the lines of love and hate really become blurred. Does she hate her child because of how he looks? or Does she love her child because she wants him to become better than what he is destined for? She is motivated by love to want him to become better than what she believes is possible for him, yet she displays hate in the sense that she is hurting the child for what he is, and also for what he has no control over. According to Rempel this grandmother is displaying both intense feelings of love and hate. Loving what is hers, but hating what it will become. Therefore, this poem supports the theory that love and hate are
9 Louise’s figurative elixir of life is the foreshadowing [?] that Chopin uses in the story to express Louise’s freedom through eternal life. In regards to past readings, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, [Title] the elixir is both literally and symbolically a recipe for immortality or eternal life.
‘Havisham’ is a poem about a woman (based on the character from Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’ of the same name) who lives alone, often confining herself to one room and wallowing in self-pity because she was apparently jilted at the alter by her scheming fiancé. ‘Havisham’ has been unable to move on from this trauma and is trapped in the past. Her isolation has caused her to become slightly mad.
Miss Havisham “was dressed in rich material- satins, and lace, and silks,” which “had been white long ago, and had lost [its] luster, and [is] faded and yellow” (57,58). Miss Havisham’s “once white dress, all yellow and withered” drapes over her “ghastly waxwork” of “yellow skin and bone” (89,58,86). She is “a skeleton in the ashes of” “the frillings and trimmings on her bridal dress, [which] look like earthy paper” (58,60). Miss Havisham’s bridal dress swallows her withered figure, and she “[has] no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes” (58). In agreement with Bert Hornbeck, a world class literary critic, the “white at first represented innocence and purity” just as a white wedding dress should, but the transition of the dress from white to yellow alludes to the “decay of innocence and purity” (216). Withered and worn like her clothes, Miss Havisham is burying herself alive by stopping time and hiding away in her house. Her yellow and tarnished bridal dress is like her burial outfit, her veil is like the shroud, and her house is like the dark casket. She has frozen time and is no longer living in her stagnant state. In her place of stagnation, she is eaten alive by the pain inflicted upon her by a man just as the mice have gnawed on the house and gnawed at her (Dickens 89). As portrayed through her
Love and hate are two of the most compelling emotions human beings are capable of. Normally contrasted, these emotions are used to scale how much we like or dislike a certain object. However, recent studies show a different relation between the two that could significantly alter the way average people in society would view them. It’s common knowledge that a person in love may be capable of the most selfless acts of beauty or terrifying horrors, but people do not generally admit that this is due to the ever-thinning line drawn between love and hate in our world. The cause could stem from a diminutive detail in our pasts, stuck in our subconscious or a chance meeting that altered the balance in our lives. Either way, it’s hard to believe that love could become more complicated than it already seems, but Melanie Klein and Robert Sternberg prove just that. These psychologist’s analytical studies truly opened my world to love and all of its intricacies.
"Come live with be my love" was said by the shepherd trying to proclaim his love to the nymph. Both poems shows much figurative language, and much lines that tells about love. However in both poems there was many difference, and much of it could be emphasized to show a different point of view.
Many puritan authors are inspired by the guiding of their religion and the belief in ¨heaven rewards¨(Bradstreet 10). Nevertheless, there is an author that was inspired by the restraints of it and her need to (express) certain feeling. In the poem ¨To My Dear and Loving Husband¨, Anne Bradstreet expresses the romantic love that, due to her religion, is impermissible to manifest in certain ways. Not that religion forbids the expression of romantic love, but rather it constraints the author's raw expression of it. As a result, Bradstreet satisfies her desire to express her love through the poem using anaphora to emphasize her certainty about such love and (introducing) a hyperbolic metaphor to convey the amount of love she keeps for her husband. The use of literary devices, like hyperbolic metaphor, give intensity to the poem, fulfilling the reader's understanding of the extent of the author's love.
...ing in love with the little things people do. The first poem that was talked about explains that the woman had respect for herself. She didn’t let the things he said or did pursue her in any way. The next poem summarizes that love is powerful and can harm any man or woman in its path. These poems were chosen to endure that fact what we go through now has been around for the longest.
I see eye to eye on how the story portrays a theme of love and hate towards the readers. I would also like to point out on how this story expresses that you cannot trust anyone. Fortunato constantly insults Montresor, yet he never complains until, Fortunato took it to far by disrespecting his holy family name.Thus making this, the final straw causing Montresor to seek revenge for his actions, along with his desires to make it permanent. He doesn’t want Fortunato to ever get a chance to hurt him back after his retribution (so he plans to kill him). Montresor finds his weakness (alcohol) and uses it towards his advantage, luring him with the Amontillado; he claims that he bought some but isn't sure if it is the real deal. As they make their way
Attitudes Towards Love in Pre-1900 and 1990's Poetry “The Despairing Lover” written by William Walsh was written pre 1900 whilst the second poem “I Wouldn’t Thank you for a Valentine” by Liz Lockhead was written in the 1990’s. These poems are almost a century apart. Attitude towards love changes over time and these poems represent this. I Wouldn’t Thank you for a Valentine is about how people think about Valentine’s Day in the 1990’s, while The Despairing Lover is showing what people think and how important they see love in the 1990’s.
For one Bendrix begins the book as a “Record of Hate” (1951, 1.I.1) for he “hated Henry – Hated his wife Sarah too” (1951, 1.I.1) yet he questions whether his “hatred is really as deficient as my love” (1951, 2.II.44) and later acknowledges that his “hate got mislaid” (1951, 4.I.107). For him it is merely the loss of love that creates what he perceives as hate, yet even this dissipates and is realised to merely be anger and unhappiness. For Sarah it leads her to hate herself as “a bitch and a fake” (1951, 3.II.75), who leads others to unhappiness and cannot herself face her true emotions. Love within the end of the affair seems to destroy the everyday Façade and leaves behind the worst parts of our personality’s for Bendrix it’s his jealous possessiveness for Sarah it is her lies. Yet one cannot hate without love as “hatred seems to operate the same glands as love” (1951, 1.III.19) an idea that explains Bendrix so well, as even in his hatred he is still