The Mortal Immortal

“And really, I did understand finally. Not what she had just said. But what had been true all along…I could finally see what was really there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a knitting needle for her sword, getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in” (p.183-84).

In the book, “Song of Solomon”, written by Toni Morrison, there is different kind of love shown by many characters such as family love, friend love, romantic love and racial love. The story shows that love, one of the feeling shows not only the affection toward someone but selfish feeling wishing for someone to be under control. In the story, Morrison shows that excess of love can lead to destruction like violence, loss of mind and self destruction.

The poem begins “having a relationship with you”. It sounds the beginning of a sweet poem, because I imagine love to be a positive thing. Then the dangerous scene happens in the story. At the end, Hauser brings her message “i wasn’t killed, but I wouldn't do it again.” It shows the protagonist’s feelings which he or she gets hurt by love and regrets it. In brief, Hauser shows a great theme by applying a sad side of love and tells readers that love is

The speaker uses words such as “louring” (line 2), “deep deceit” (line 8), “grievous” (line 11) and “bale” (line 140. All of these words have sorrowful and despairing meanings to them which gives the whole poem an unhappy tone. The third and fourth lines discus that the speaker cannot even look at the beautiful face, which appears to grow more attractive daily, of the woman he loves. Moreover, the couplet tells the readers that the sorrow in the speaker’s eyes is there because of the pain he has felt due to his faulty relationship. The mouse that “lies aloof for fear of more mishap” (line 7) shows the misery felt by the speaker by using the words “aloof” and “mishap”. “Aloof” means to be stand-offish or reserved, which the speaker is because if he gets too close, he will be hurt again. “Mishap” means disaster or unfortune which altogether sounds miserable. Had the speaker used diction that was lighter or less depressed, the reader truly would not understand the misery the speaker has went through. The miserable diction depicts the deep wounds the speaker received from his love, shedding light to how much he really loved her and how bad she really hurt

she could marry her young man..., it was like cutting my own heart into little pieces,”(264).

When the readers meet the young, subordinated wife of a physician, who remains nameless throughout the entire story, perhaps hinting at the commonness of such situations where all those women are the same: faceless and nameless, this woman’s dilemma becomes obvious. She has been stripped off the only function a woman in those times had, the domestic one, due to the fact that she suffers from a mysterious illness which requires the infamous bed cure. Gradually, she is treated more and more as a child, unable and even forbidden to express herself in a creative way, namely to write, being persuaded that it cannot do any good to someone in her condition. This is why the protagonist (who is simultaneously the narrator), takes it upon herself to write a journal about her experiences and the mysterious woman that haunts her from the

When the narrator first encounters the girl, his friend's older sister, he can only see her silhouette in the “light from the half-opened door”. This is the beginning of his infatuation with the girl. After his discovery, he is plagued by thoughts of the girl which make his daily obligations seem like “ugly, monotonous, child's play”. He has become blinded by the light. The narrator not only fails to learn the name of his “girl”, he does not realize that his infatuation with a woman considerably older than himself is not appropriate. He relishes in his infatuation, feeling “thankful [he] could see so little” while he thinks of the distant “lamp or lighted window” that represents his girl. The narrator is engulfed by the false light that is his futile love.

The author carefully crafts the story so that every detail contributes to a certain unique or single effect, whether it is as complex as irony or as simple as depiction of feelings. The Husband describes his absolute love for Ann as he reminisces about the years he spent with her and how deeply he "knows"

The idea of lack of humanisation and identity is woven in throughout the novel as Bertha is often described in an animal like manner which under normal circumstances would not be associated with a Lady of great wealth like

Every person falls in love which is why it is such a prevalent theme in literature and art. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, love is the driving force for the tragic ending. The play begins with Claudius murdering his brother, which in part is done out of love for Gertrude. Throughout, the audience watches Hamlet struggle with his morals, unsure whether to do what is right, or to enact revenge out of love for his father. At the end, Laertes sets all the plans in motion because of his own family love, which is what creates the tragedy. Not only is Hamlet a tragedy due to a desire of revenge, but also it is the misplaced love the characters hold that truly binds the tragedy.

The use of character, style, and point of view that Atwood uses to write this story gives you a real feeling of pity for these characters, only having horrible lows or average highs in their relationships. It appears that there is no great place to be in her story. Reading this story for the first time, the reader could assume Atwood has an obsession with bad relationships, boring average marriages, and death. The key to understanding what the author is trying to convey is realizing how the stories all link together and how they all lack the essence of excitement and desire. The author brings the idea that without focusing on the “how and why” of life and only focusing on the “what, what, what” will leave you with an average

We are shown only her through a vicious attack on her brother and an attempt made on Mr. Rochester’s life, from this we are expected to form an opinion of Bertha. Without having the backstory which is provided in Wide Sargasso Sea it is easy to call her crazy however after learning about Antoinette and what she has been through it becomes much more complicated. When Bertha attacked Antoinette’s brother it seems vicious because it appears that Antoinette was trying to hurt her brother but in reality Bertha and Richard did not know each other as they have never actually meet which is why Grace told her that “when he came in, he didn’t recognize you” (146). This also explains why Antoinette does not remember attacking Richard as it was not really her. A similar situation happens when Bertha attacks Mr. Rochester during the honeymoon. While trying to stop her from drinking Rochester struggles to take a bottle of rum from her he “managed to hold her wrist with one hand and the rum with the other, but when [he] felt her teeth in [his] arm” (116) he dropped and broke the bottle. The use of “in” instead of “on” shows how violent this bite is and shows that Bertha was not concerned about hurting Mr. Rochester as she doesn’t care about or have feelings for him. Another excellent example of Antoinette’s madness is her dreams or rather nightmares. In the

As the novel progresses, the two major themes of love altering one’s soul and misfortune being

The woman and man caught in their passionate embrace are set above the wartime images. It seems that symbolically the man and woman are above the war, that their love transcends the tragedy and the tumult that surrounds them, if only because they are fighting their own romantic war. Below them is a burning city. The couple on the carriage fleeing the city looks to be the same couple that is staring into each other’s eyes. This further suggests that they were apart of the events in the war, but were still caught in the throws of their own love life. The girl that rushes from her

This weariness with life is a symbol of schizoid suicide, which leads into withdrawal into death, into a ghostly world. In the unconscious, the narrator believes that the corruption of relationships through sexual contact brings nothingness. This again indicates the presence of a schizoid element in his mind. A person with a schizoid mind seeks isolation. Union with a woman will not take him into the path of separateness, so he buries the woman. Now he can be free. He is alone but alive. In the process, he is denouncing the "inferior" half of himself, the woman in him, the part that he fears may corrupt and make him diseased. He expresses the intolerable perplexity of woman as a focus of appearance and reality.