Comparison of Character and Voice

Considering the importance of the literature work, in the following writing. Two literary attempts will be made to make a comparison and to highlight

In the poems, “To Helen” and “Helen”, both Edgar Allan Poe and H.D. emphasize the beauty of the infamous Helen of Troy; however, the speakers’ attitudes differ as one praises and worships Helen while the other condemns her for her treachery and remains unmoved by her beauty.

An outsider has different social, emotional, and moral views to the outside world, and this influences the outsider’s sense of self, and opinions of their world. The protagonists from both The Catcher in the Rye and The Year my Voice Broke take pride in their quirks and nonconformity, without becoming downtrodden or antisocial; making them motivational, inspiring characters for readers to relate to. Holden Caulfield is the misguided storyteller, the wandering young man from The Catcher in the Rye, a man who’s been through great trauma and despite his pain and swiftly deteriorating mental health, is trying to find his place in a world he feels is at odds with him. Similarly, Danny from The Year My Voice Broke is trapped in the typical teenage love triangle despite being anything but typical himself, struggling to be with the girl he cares so deeply about, without losing who he really is, or who he cares about.

“The Sound of a Voice” by David Henry Hwang is a one act play telling the story of two characters, Man and Woman. These characters both live alone and isolated. Woman is rumored to be a witch, and Man is a soldier without a purpose who comes in hope of killing Woman. They both have a fear of silence and love. These unusual fears result in their fatal downfall. This play explores deep emotions, such as the fear of silence that Man and Woman share which pushes Woman to commit suicide. A fear of intimacy, felt exceptionally strong by Man, results in unfortunate timing leading to Woman’s death. Loneliness displayed by both characters is the underlying cause of the outcome. These feelings play together to contribute to Man and Woman’s tragic love.

The poem’s structure as a sonnet allows the speaker’s feelings of distrust and heartache to gradually manifest themselves as the poem’s plot progresses. Each quatrain develops and intensifies the speaker’s misery, giving the reader a deeper insight into his convoluted emotions. In the first quatrain, the speaker advises his former partner to not be surprised when she “see[s] him holding [his] louring head so low” (2). His refusal to look at her not only highlights his unhappiness but also establishes the gloomy tone of the poem. The speaker then uses the second and third quatrains to justify his remoteness; he explains how he feels betrayed by her and reveals how his distrust has led him

Both the poems have the theme of love, written from a man’s point of view, and explores the way men treat woman in relationships. The former does this by a male narrator writing a poem to a female, using imagery to entice her. The latter by using a duke, explaining the story of what happened to his previous wife whilst looking at her picture. Both the poems use imagery and other poetic devices but in different ways. The first uses them more often to impress her. The second uses them in a

In this, one could see that the speaker might be talking about death: “And when at Night –“; and how the speaker prefers the comfort of his/her faith over the comforts of the world: “I guard My Master’s Head - / ‘Tis better than the Eider-Duck’s / Deep Pillow – to have shared-” (13-16). The tone of this poem ranges from emptiness, to fullness, to joy, to complete satisfaction, and one can follow this progression through the stanzas. In the beginning, the subject, or character, was flat

Lisa Baxter has been encountering sexual harassment issues in the business and she thought she was the only one, until she found out that also other women in the organization are getting sexually harassed and so she decides to speak up

Blanche Du Boise is a character in Tennesse‘s fictional plain by the title a street car named desire while Willy Loman is a fictional character in Arthurs miller play; death of a sales man. Blanche in the play street car named desire is an extremely complicated character who appears to have internal conflicts throughout the play. She appears to be from the upper class society as her name suggests and upon meeting her she appears cultured and sophisticated. Her dressing suggests purity and innocence but it doesn’t take long to realize she is pretending. Her attempt to cover up her drinking problem and promiscuous behavior all foreshadow her eventual destruction of her character.

There is a similar theme running through both of the poems, in which both mistresses are refusing to partake in sexual intercourse with both of the poets. The way in which both poets present their argument is quite

In each of the poems, both Medusa and the Duke of Ferrara represent the fickleness of power and how it fluctuates in daily life. Duffy’s manipulation of a paradox within ‘Medusa’ displays the extent to which power plays a part in the Greek myth of Medusa. The extended metaphor of Medusa with “filthy snakes” that “hissed and

The story Medusa’s head explains the adventure of Perseus. On the other hand the Poem just talks about how Medusa is feeling and what she’s been doing while being a monster. The story walks the reader through the challenges Perseus goes through along the journey and about how another character named Danae was treated unfairly by her father and the reason for him to treat her unfairly was because he was told that she would have a child kill the father King Acrisios . Now to get on to the Poem. The Poem is different mainly cause of the theme and by the characters point of view just by the Poem talking about Medusa and her wicked powers.

The two women also have different melodic motifs: Clara has songs written in a major key in contrast to Fosca whose songs contain “melancholy minor key” (Secrest, 1384). But the optimum difference between the two women lies on how the society viewed them to be: Clara represents the perfect woman whose love is to be celebrated, while Fosca is the conundrum (Secrest,

The poem “Medusa” by Carol Ann Duffy is connected to the Greek story of Medusa who was killed by Perseus, a Greek hero, by using the a reflecting surface. Carol Ann Duffy poem is written in the perspective of Medusa. The question answered in this essay will be; How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers? The interpretation of the poem might vary depending on the age social status, gender, culture and the time period in which the text was read in. The variation of the interpretation will be based on the different interpretation of the literary devices such as metaphors, the effect of repetition and structure of the poem.

Sigh No More, Ladies by William Shakespeare and Les Grands Seigneurs by Dorothy Molloy are poems that represent the imbalance of gender roles in romantic affairs, and by doing so undermines the idealistic and sentimental desires of a relationship. Sigh No More, Ladies focuses on how to cope with romantic disappointment from men, and how their actions may hurt women, whereas Les Grands Seigneurs demonstrates, through an ironic tone and black humour, that the power a woman may once hold, can be lost through marriage. With a common theme of love, both poems show the subversion of