The Demon Lover And The Disturbing Lover

Marriage is an important part of life of many modern societies. The institution of marriage was formed many centuries ago. While some of its aspects vary based on specific country or community, but the core is often the same – by contracting a marriage, both sides undertake specific commitments. Specifically, they promise to care about children that already exist or will appear in the family; or to be faithful to the partner. There is a serious problem with the second issue. Adultery is an event that was often mentioned by popular literature sources including the Bible. The poetry is not an exception. James Dickey and Anne Sexton focused on the topic in their poems “Adultery” and “For My Lover, Returning to His Wife” respectively. Authors described the theme from different points of view. Dickey highlights the considerable age of the practice and treats it as an inevitable evil. The adultery existed, exist and will continue to exist in the community. Sexton looks at the problem from the female point of view; her poem is written from the

Marriage is supposed to be the unity of two people as partners in an equal relationship. Yet, in the Wife of Bath’s Tale and the Clerk’s Tale, they demonstrate that marriage is an inevitable battle for power and dominance. The Wife of Bath expresses the pain of marriage and that women are the leaders. Whereas, the Clerk believes that women should be obedient to men in a relationship. Despite the two contrasting opinions, both tales are an epitome of the respective points of view.

In The Demon Lover, Bowen uses modern and feminist ideas to draw the reader into a deeper understanding of the piece adding detail, such as imagery and descriptions of the Blitz and the flashback which lets the reader understand her past romance. Shifts in the story occur as she narrows down possibilities as to how the letter arrived inside her home. Mrs. Drover remembers her ex-fiancé's promise, "I shall be with you,” he said, “sooner or later. You won’t forget that," which leads to her, later on, talking to herself after his death saying that, "he was never kind to me, not really. I don’t remember him kind at all" (Bowen, 1332-1335). At the end of the short story, Mrs. Drover was completely in awe of what she had saw in the cab, being that it was K., "Mrs. Drover’s mouth hung open for some seconds before she could issue her first scream," which explains that she did not expect the driver to be her ex-fiancé and from that point she was stuck with him. As the short story ends, the reader can only imagine the outcome that Mrs. Drover will have since it is not stated, perhaps her death or a life of terror, but it is simply

However, they are similar in the way of both women ending with the ex-lovers in their face. “The driver braked to what was almost a stop, turned round, and slid the glass panel back: The jolt of this flung Mrs. Drover forward till her face was almost into the glass. Mrs. Drover’s mouth hung open for some seconds before she could issue her first scream. After that she continued to scream freely and to beat with her gloved hands on the glass all round as the taxi, accelerating without mercy, made off with her into the hinterland of deserted streets.” (Bowen 1023). This scene by Mrs. Drover exhibits her side of shock that was also shown to the unnamed women in a different way. In both stories the ex lovers are away for enough time that the women moved on. However in the Demon Lover Ballad the wait was seven plus years. "Oh, do not speak of your former vows, for they will breed sad strife; oh, do not speak of your former vows, for I have become a wife"(Ballad 1025). The unknown lady’s shock was portrayed in this quote proving her wait. In conclusion both stories plot twists are significantly different leading to the decisions of both

Pollit expounds on the true meaning of marriage; by looking at the history of marriage. For a period of time, “polygyny was the rule;”

The theme of matrimony in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue as well as in the Miller’s Tale does not fit in with traditional fourteenth-century culture. The characters in these two texts turn what is suppose to be a sacred unity into a promiscuous and taboo fantasy for pilgrims. The characters narrating these two tales promote the idea of what fourteenth-century canon law would define as adultery—to have had a third lover while married is the new societal trend for the characters in these tales. And so, marriage becomes a component to the larger fantasy of having a relationship with a character who is already in a marital bond, i.e., cuckolding is a fetish for Alisoun in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue as well as for Nicholas and Absolom in the Miller’s Tale. That is, Alisoun’s pursuit of her lover Jankin while being married, promotes the idea that having a third partner amplifies one’s sexual life, meanwhile, Nicholas’s and Absalom’s quarrel over (a different) Alison encourages the idea that engaging with a married someone enhances the gratification of adultery. In other words, marriage is not portrayed as a scared bond, but as a device to fulfill a pilgrim’s sexual fantasy; and, this new fantasy is what the pilgrims try to make a trend throughout England. Note that I will be using the name, “Alisoun,” to represent the wife from Bath, and I will be using the name, “Alison,” to portray the wife in the Miller’s Tale.

Marriage has been a heated controversy for the past few years because people often marry for the wrong reasons. Anyone who thinks of an ideal marriage would think of two people loving each other and sharing a personal bond or goals together. Marriage is regularly defined as the legally or formally recognized union of two lovers as partners in a personal relationship. This definition remarks there is an actual connection between two people in marriage, but do people actually consider this when committing to “love” and “support” their partners forever? As research and studies have shown, people ultimately get married for many reasons, except love. This philosophy can be easily applied to the short poem, “Marriage” by Gregory Corso. In this emotional poem, the author argues marriage is more effectively understood or known for culture and convenience rather than through the abstract considerations of love. Here, we can identify people generally decide to marry for the incorrect reasons, for instance the story of the author himself. Corso finds himself confused multiple times, wondering if he should marry to not be lonely, for tradition and for his physical and mental health. He disregards love, a relationship or a connection with his future wife. General ways of convenience like loneliness, health and economic status between cultural stereotypes and religion are usually the true reasons of why people chose to have the commitment of marriage with another person.

Butler explains to her readers the ample reasons why wives of the medieval time period would decide to leave their husbands. In fact, on page 338 of her article, Butler writes, “The goal of this paper is to provide a more comprehensive perspective of husband desertion, including the risks involved in deserting one’s husband, the wife’s motivations, and the logistics of desertion” (Butler 338). She begins her article with some background information in hopes to enlighten her readers that at this point in history, men had all the power in any marriage. Following the brief history of the misogyny found in medieval marriages, Butler uses the rest of her article to explain to her readers the trials and tribulations these wives had to go through, the risk of others knowing she wanted to leave, and what made the wives want to leave at all.

Adultery in today’s society is more common than it was during a time when there were knights, kings, queens, and crusades because adultery was looked as a sin due to the fact that in the mid-1400s there was no law higher than the church. In the passage The Wife of Bath’s Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer characterizes the Wife of Bath as a woman who uses men for her needs and pleasure. For example, the wife explains she has many husbands but desires to lust and love other men she acknowledges. In the second passage La Morte D’ Arthur, Thomas Malory explains how people use each other for their own personal gains, such as Queen Guinevere and her second partner do, as she commit’s adultery behind her spouse’s back. Therefore, both the wife’s are guilty

But now, even with some freedom, men were still marrying for the wrong reasons, this time for lust(Alchin). Also, love could not be found at all for those considered ugly, but only for those “worth lusting for(Chaucer, 67).” Unfortunately, love was rarely even a factor at all because it was replaced by lust, which is still a relevant issue that people in modern times have trouble with. It is very important to marry for love and love only. In that time, it also was not uncommon to

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The discussion of the Wife’s five husbands describes her evolving role as a woman and how she overcame the most ridiculous obstacles to maintain this idea or illusion of marriage. The Wife’s depiction of her marriages was that three were good and two were bad. The initial marriages were to older rich men where she kept up this idea of marriage in order to receive money, but was not faithful by

England has always had a rich history of interesting cultural traditions but arguably none as prevalent as marriage. Marriage, the union of two people with emotional ideals and expectations, are brought on by many different factors that include: for love, for money, for climbing social status, escapism, survival, etc. In Jane Austen’s novels, she focuses on the importance of marriage in her world because she wanted to emphasize how marriage is the most important life event of a woman as this would determine her place in society. Persuasion shows readers good and bad examples of marriage: the amiable Crofts and other couples such as Sir Walter & Lady Elliot and the Smiths. Jane Austen uses the Crofts to support the importance of marriage

In modern-day society, marriage is considered to be a capstone event in people’s lives, the culmination of their romantic endeavors in a lifelong, legally recognized partnership. In Paradise Lost, Milton’s characterization of the first union of human beings—the marriage of Adam and Eve—strips marriage down to its most basic, primal form, and uses Adam and Eve to explore the relationship between obedience and autonomy. The obedience expected of Adam and Eve from God is mirrored in the obedience Adam expects from Eve, and her desire for greater independence is met with confusion and concern. However, Milton’s characterization of Eve as both a sinner and a victim implies that God and Adam

Western society today has evolved to romanticise the idea of love, and along with it, the idea of a marriage based upon love. This has therefore pushed a negative stigma onto the concept of arranged marriages. A classic example of literature that pits these two clashing ideas against each other is William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Even today, many debate over the two, love or arranged marriages.