In contrast, Fyodor Dostoevesky's modern novel, Notes from the Underground, portrays the feeling of every man being on his own. ... This is illustrated throughout the works of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich, and Dostoevesky's Notes From the Underground. ... Finally Dostoevesky illustrates modernism through his novel, Notes From the Underground. ...
But although we are not left with a happy ending, we are left with a little bit of hope, that one day he will return and waiting there will be a note. A note of love and of opportunity. A note that will lead him to his love, and ultimately his universe. ...
While each of these influences are separate and distinct, it also important to note that each of them are intertwined and always manipulating each other. ... It is important to note that this train of thought directly influenced the very characters telling the stories. ... Early in The Decameron, as the seven women discuss matters in the church, one of them enviously notes that the people who pursue this "free-spirited" outlook "draw no distinction, as I have frequently heard and seen for myself, between what is honest and dishonest; and provided only that they are prompted by their appetite...
On a last note, Theseus and Hippolyta are regarded throughout the play as being a loving couple, never really displeasing one another. ... On this note, besides the point that Theseus and Hippolyta have conflicting views on the time period between four days the two seem to be joining in a happy courtship. ... On another note, Titania seems to attempt to show her true love for Oberon more frequently. ...
It is important to note that Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author, writes from a 2 Puritan frame of reference. ... It is important to note that even though Dimmesdale is not Hester's husband she views him as the father of her child. ... One interesting note here is that Hester would never share with anyone who had fathered her child. ...
Romance Tradition and the Frame Narrative in The Princess Bride William Goldman's The Princess Bride is a metafictional story that both celebrates and questions various aspects of the romance tradition. The romance tradition is celebrated in The Princess Bride through a heroic tale of fantas...
This implies the existence of conceptual children as well as physical ones, and Diotima gives an example of the former by noting man's love for honor, his desire that his name ring down through the ages "it is immortality they are in love with." (208c-e) Just as the pregnancy of a man's body is released through impregnating the body of a fertile woman (208e), the pregnancy of a man's mind is released through teaching the mind of another intelligent man (209b). ...
As in many restoration comedy plays, class and elitism play a key role in the plot and development of the play, especially when it comes to the treatment of women. In Sir George Etherege's play, "The Man of Mode," the main characters portray a social system in which power is everything. All of the p...
Hitchcock's movie, Vertigo, is a twisted story about a police detective dealing with a deep fear of falling (Acrophobia) while being played like a pawn. Retired police detective, John "Scottie" Ferguson, meets up with an old college friend, Gavin Elster, who influences him to take on another assign...
Chretien de Troyes' romance, Yvain: The Knight of the Lion, gives readers great insight into the concept of Love in King Arthur's time. Love is initiallyrevered as the greatest and most pure of all achievements, and the lady's reciprocation the ultimate prize. As the story progresses, however, a l...
I grew up as a normal little girl embarking on her life journey. It all began in Ohio where I was born. My sister watched attentively waiting for her baby sister and future best friend to be born. When the doctor handed me over to my sister, she held me tight in her arms telling me that she loved me...
As a little girl growing up, I spent a lot of time with a Hispanic lady because my mother worked all the time. She was like a grandmother to me. I loved to hear her speak of her late husband and how much she loved him. Her voice would change when she spoke of him. She described how she would sit and...
It is interesting to note the way Chaucer manipulates with the mode of medieval romance in characterization of his heroines: while the Prioress physically resembles a romance heroine, the Wife of Bath uses a romantic setting in her story of the magical hag and the rapist. ...
Growing up during the time of an uprising war in Sri Lanka, Arjie finds himself on an unexpected and memorable journey towards discovering his inner person. In this novel, Selvadurai writes through the main character's eyes as he describes the struggles that he goes through growing with the violence...
After months and months of suspense, love has finally been discovered. Love was not discovered by anyone in the classroom. Two characters in Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog- fell in love. It is such a romantic way to end the semester. Well, enough about school and on to the facts. In every sh...
When speaking seriously on the topic of love as a young girl, a teen, one tends to lose creditability. There is a generalized and common idea that love that is young is not as laudable nor as beautiful as love that is old. It is said that young love burns like brushfire and old love like oak; a simp...
William Shakespeare's Othello is a tragic play regarding jealousy and its decomposing effects on the human psychology. The title character is a noble, highly ranked idealistic general. Due to jealousy, Othello transforms into a raging, uncontrollable murderer, in the desperate search for revenge. In...
The book starts out by describing Oceania under a dictator. Winston Smith is the main character in the novel and he lives in Oceania formerly London. It becomes clear that he against the government. He tries to write in his journal about an event that had happened earlier in the day, but it is ...
"The Importance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde, is a comedic play that is set in London, England during Victorian times. Wilde uses many literary devices to create comedy in this play one of the most promentent of these devices is the unexpected and backward logic frequently used by the ch...
"Carmen" is an opera in four acts. It was written in 1873-1874 and debuted in 1875 (Oxford Dictionary). It portrays the dangers of the Romantic ideal. The ultimate climax - Carmen's murder - was seen as too controversial for audiences of the time and was nearly omitted. Fortunately, Bizet was suppor...
Romantic Love In Dante's Inferno and The Lais of Marie De France It is fascinating to take the time out to examine in similarities and differences in the way authors Dante Aligheri and Marie De France impart to their readers their views on romantic love. It can almost be said that the tw...
