Banishing Love.
To reject someone you love, because you feel you are not good enough for them, is a very heart-rending situation for all parties involved. Trivial things such as money and education should not be a factor in a relationship when two people really love each other. Trusting someone to give guidance during such difficult thoughts is a great benefit. Not everyone can be born with money, but education is obtainable. In the novel, "Where the Heart Is", by Billie Lettes, two of the main characters Novalee and Forney experience these differences.
When Novalee and Forney met they became the closest of friends, but Novalee was afraid for their relationship to go any farther. She felt she was not worthy of Forney. The fact that he came from a family with money and education was intimidating to Novalee. It kept her from forming a more significant relationship with him. Novalee said, ""Lexie, Forney's not like us"" (247). ""Well, he's different. His people were educated. They had money. Lexie, Forney lived in a house with a parlor. I've never even known anyone who said parlor"" (247). Novalee being a high school dropout, and from a family of losers added to her insecurity. Overcoming feeling such as these can be very difficult. Not believing in yourself will only leave you "left out in the cold". As Novalee said, ""Well, Lexie you said it yourself. Girls like us don't get the pick of the litter"" (248). Encouragement from friends, family, clergy, or professional counseling can help overcome these feeling of shortcomings. Realizing that material things and money are not what is important in life will help bring about inner peace.
When Novalee spurned Forney, she thought she was doing the right thing for him. After the death of his sister, remarks that some had made to her about Forney going to college began to interfere with the feeling she was having. The very day Novalee met Forney, Sister Husband made mention, ""Oh, he's a brilliant man.
Love? Orin Moyer Many say that love is a wonderful thing. ... In this essay I will attempt the difficult task of defining love by looking at the history, explaining what love is not, and examining the uses of love and the results of that usage. ... Love is cold, wet sand between bare toes. ... Houses have been built, burned, and banished because of love....
Goneril and Regan take advantage of him and do not love him. ... On the other hand, Cordelia is the one who actually loves Lear. ... Banishing Cordelia is the sin which Lear commits. ... She is the one who actually loves him: "I cannot heave / My heart into my mouth, I love your Majesty / According to my bond, no more nor less... By banishing Kent, banishing Cordelia and dividing his land too quickly, Lear unknowingly sins against himself. ...
Romeo and Juliet~ A Torn Love "My only love sprung from my only hate! ... Yes, Friar is a kind man that loves Romeo and Juliet. ... Friar was very secretive in Romeo and Juliet's love affair. ... When the Prince founded out he banished Romeo from Verona. Because of this banishment, Romeo and Juliet could no longer sneak around. ...
Having a heart blinded by love Hester choose to stay in the town and wear the scarlet letter "A" instead of revealing the other adulterer. She faced society only to protect and be close to the man she still loved. ... It seemed to her as though "every gesture, every word, and even the silence of those whom she came in contact, implied, and often expressed, that she was banished" (37) from the town. ... Hester's sin was that she fell in love with another man and committed adultery with him. If Hester could have let the love for Dimmesdale free and named him as th...
The families" hatred towards one another turns into a fight and results in the banishment of Romeo. ... Their families fight, and this is how Romeo is banished. ... The fearful passage of their death-marked love." (prologue p.673) The quote contains phrases about the lovers taking their lives, and the fearful passage of death marked love. ... Romeo was banished for killing Tybalt. ...
He shows his rashness again when he banishes his once favorite daughter Cordelia and his loyal man, Kent. When Cordelia had refused to flatter him and express her love with fancy words, King Lear immediately banishes her thinking that she did not love him enough to prove it. ... Kent, realizing his blindness tries to get Lear to change his decision of banishing Cordelia and he too is also banished with another rash decision from Lear. ... He is greatly pleased with the profuseness of their expressions of love. Afterwards, Cordelia refuses to express her love and simply says nothing. ...
King Lear banishes Cordelia when she gives an honest answer about her love to him. ... Therefore be gone without our grace, our love, our benison." (Act I, Scene I, Lines 265-267) His blindness forced him to banish his daughter that truly loved him. ... Both characters lost loved ones and lost their own lives. King Lear banished his only daughter that truly loved him and Gloucester wanted to kill his son that was true to him. ...
We can study different aspects of his character through looking at theses three incidents, the dividing of the kingdom, the reach for the sword and Cordelia's banishment. ... He allows her plenty of opportunities to talk of her love but she cannot say how she truly feels for him because love is physical and should not be used as a tool to impress. ... Shakespeare wrote 'when she was dear to us' this has a dual meaning, he is not only referring to a term of endearment but also to the physical worth she would have had if she had not been banished. ... Lear is exposed with a rash...
When Cain killed Able, God "banished him far from mankind" (29). ... Grendel is a descendant of Cain, so he shares Cain's banishment. ... Since he cannot "approach the throne" (28) like other people, he chooses to try to destroy the throne, because he has "no love for him (God)" (28). ... Grendel is not only banished from God's light, but from the light in general. ... Grendel, like other displaced peoples, did not accept his banishment without a fight. ...
