For instance, Lady Bertilak (the lords wife) plays a major role in this story testing chivalry but does not stand as the most honorable character. ... "Her chin is pale,/ her cheeks are ruddy red with health;/ her smile is sweet, she speaks with lips that love to laugh" (1200). The wife is sent to Gawain to test his honor and chivalry. ... "She guided me in this guise/ to your great hall/ to put pride on trial/, and to test with this trick/ what distinction and trust the Round Table deserves./ She imagined this mischief would muddle your minds/ and that grieving Guinevere would...

• Word Count: 586
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

I'd love to waltz with you. I'd love to have my tonsils out. I'd love to be in a midnight fire at sea", (Parker, 490-91). ... He was set on me, that is what it was-not love. Not love, not meaning a person well. ...

• Word Count: 723
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The fact that the gift from her father was from Hink's, a women's clothing store, not a girls clothing store, made her feel as if her father was treating her as a woman creating a sense of love and acknowledgment in her life. ... These two actions, both very large acts of love, added to the illusion that her father was a caring and loving man. The illusion of love created by the speaker's father gains even more bulk when the speaker opens the gift and finds that the big box contains a perfectly fitting "blue shirtwaist dress blue as the side of a blue teal disguised to go ...

• Word Count: 807
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Others see her as a woman ambitious for her husband whom she loves. ... To Macbeth, in his letter to her, she is his "dearest partner of greatness", an indication of love and trust. ... Is she alloy by exploiting his love for her when she makes his consent to murder a test of his love? ...

• Word Count: 885
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Yes I still love you." ... Marriage has clearly not changed her perception of love, as she continues to "go alone", without clearly stating when she will return. ... She loved her work, and would not give it up, even for love. ... She certainly has a deeply rooted need for love, although she knows that it either cannot or will not last for long. ... But her curiosty had peaked, and she wanted to "test her powers" to determine if she could be desirable by men and women alike (Milford 111). ...

• Word Count: 1063
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the play it becomes apparent that Desdemona is truly and faithfully, in love with Othello. Her nave conception of love is apparent in Act 4, scene 3 in her conversation with Emilia regarding adultery. ... These feelings would have been tested when Othello came to her room to "sacrifice- her. ... As Desdemona becomes increasingly aware that her love has turned sour with jealousy, she falls into a state of hopelessness. ... Also, as she loved Othello, her future outlook (life without her love) would have been negative at best. ...

• Word Count: 1219
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

She explains that a woman's love and passion is needed for the world to experience happiness by concluding, "(the angel) showing how sacred love should make us happy, by truest test of a life successful to such an end!" ...

• Word Count: 904
• Approx Pages: 4