The Sufferings Of Young Werther

     Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a dark tale of sin and redemption,centers around the small Puritan community of Boston during the 17th century. In the midst of this small community is Hester Prynne. She is a woman that has defied the Puritans, taken the consequences and in the end conformed with the Puritans. It did,

In Hillenbrand’s novel Unbroken, Louie is put through many different challenges, including nearly being eaten by a shark, having to survive on a deteriorating raft in the middle of the ocean, and being imprisoned by the Japanese. As a boy, Louie was rebellious, resourceful, a skilled thief, nearly impossible to discourage, and a troublemaker. As a boy, these were undesirable traits, but it was also these traits that would keep him alive in the trials he would face. This article will demonstrate the agency and resilience of Louie, as well as how they helped him in the war.

This essay will focus on the theme of death in this story. There are lot

The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

William Shakespeare once wrote, “the course of true love never did run smooth.” Shakespeare’s philosophy, extracted from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, appropriately pertains to the storylines of Edgar Allen Poe’s “Annabel Lee” and Alfred Noyes “The Highwayman”. Within Poe’s “Annabel Lee”, the narrator depicts of the true love that he and his “Annabel Lee” harbored but it evokes resentful angels to pursue and murder his lover. As within Noyes’ “The Highwayman”, the narrator portrays of a love so pure between the highwayman and Bess, the landlord’s daughter, in which Bess willingly sacrifices her life in hopes of saving the highwayman from being killed but unfortunately, leaves both lovers dead. Both Poe and Noyes managed to exercise certain

William Shakespeare once wrote, “the course of true love never did run smooth.” Shakespeare’s philosophy, extracted from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, appropriately pertains to the storylines of Edgar Allen Poe’s “Annabel Lee” and Alfred Noyes “The Highwayman”. Within Poe’s “Annabel Lee”, the narrator depicts of the true love that he and his “Annabel Lee” harbored but it evokes resentful angels to pursue and murder his lover. As within Noyes’ “The Highwayman”, the narrator portrays of a love so pure between the highwayman and Bess, the landlord’s daughter, in which Bess willingly sacrifices her life in hopes of saving the highwayman from being killed but

Love is an essential part of life. Every individual wants to be loved, and needs someone to love. It is an element that is fundamental to the well-being of all human kind; it is that magic that can heal wounds. However love also has the capacity to traumatize a person if it is extracted from their life. While we all wish to experience love, many of us tend to find the often inevitable detachment to be quite painful. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby's longing for Daisy Buchanan leads him to his own downfall. Similarly in the novel Hamlet, Hamlet's extreme love for his father and his hatred towards his mother play a major role in his tragedy. In these works, there are a number of motivating factors that contribute to the downfall

Love always seems to find a place in someone’s heart not by choice but by admiration. One who admires another appears to feel something towards the person they are admiring and that feeling they have can lead into the feeling of love. Despite all of Love’s joy and excitement, Gottfried Von Strassburg’s Tristan and Thomas’ Tristan, reveals the way love overwhelms a person and the outcomes that happen when two lovers cannot be near or without each other. Love’s overwhelming feeling often associates with death, in that those in love are so consumed with emotion and the desire to be with their beloved that it can lead to their downfall. Even though the loves of Rivalin and Blancheflor and Tristan and Isolde/Ysolt are similar in ways, they also are different.

"Dey gointuh make ‘miration ‘cause mah love didn’t work lak they love, if dey ever had any. Then you must tell ‘em dat love ain’t somethin’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore." Love is different for everyone; sometimes you have to work for the one you love, and sometimes it just comes naturally. Love is not a fixed thing. It is as the ocean waters tide changing, and the way the shores have shape. Society has a certain outlook on what love is, but in actuality there is no one set way to love. “It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding. If they made a verdict that she didn’t want Tea Cake and wanted him dead, then that was a real sin and a shame. It was worse than murder.” Janie’s falsehood is her worse sin, not the actual murder. Murder, death, are things that relate to the morality theme that is throughout this essay, and the book.

Ethan Frome is a story of sorrow and regret. The author Edith Wharton spins a tale of misery, where fate and freewill are unrecognisable. Ethan is seemingly introverted and shy which makes him sympathetic, but also selfish and impulsive which are very negative traits. His story is gossip in the village he is resident to, and when the unknown narrator visits the town; similarly to the reader, he hopes the story is one that will be unforgettable. It isn’t though, it is not exactly normal, but it is very anti-climactic and symbolic of life for most people. Ethan is like most men and desires excitement, and his dear Mattie is the source of that. Young, energetic, and charming; she’s a dream to him. He makes decisions in hopes of at least a grand suicide, but can't even achieve that. Even after the symbolic sled, he can’t achieve satisfaction, because he is trapped with his always grouchy wife and a now frustrated and older Mattie in a small cabin. The novel is a dramatic recreation of disappointment in life and the reality of events.

Edmund Kemper developed an attraction to his female teacher, of which his sister would tease him asking why he didn’t kiss her, his reply was he would first have to kill her the first evident signs of him being a necrophile (strange attraction to corpses). Furthermore, he enjoyed pretending he was being executed in a gas chamber at school, and began decapitating the dolls belonging to his sisters’.

Love is such an abstract and intangible thing, yet it is something that everyone longs for. In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the difficulty of love is explored through the obstacles that characters have to face while pursuing their loved ones. Those characters that are in love in the play were conflicted with troubles; however, the obstacles of love do not seem to stop them from being infatuated with each other. The concept of true love is examined throughout this play. By creating obstacles using authority and a higher power, Shakespeare examines the power of love. Through Hermia and Lysander’s loving words, it is reasonable to conclude that love conquers all if you believe in it.

“The course of true love never did run smooth,” comments Lysander of love’s complications in an exchange with Hermia (Shakespeare I.i.136). Although the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream certainly deals with the difficulty of romance, it is not considered a true love story like Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare, as he unfolds the story, intentionally distances the audience from the emotions of the characters so he can caricature the anguish and burdens endured by the lovers. Through his masterful use of figurative language, Shakespeare examines the theme of the capricious and irrational nature of love.

In one of AMND’s most enduring passages, Lysander states (Act one scene one, line 134) ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ The conflict that is inevitably born out of love is a central theme at the heart of Midsummer’s Night’s Dream and Hamlet, but is extended by Shakespeare not only to romantic relationships, but to familial bonds as well. The conflict is ultimately resolved in diametrically opposing ways in each play, according to the conventions of their respective genres. Hamlet is a tragedy, and therefore can result only in death, but AMND, as a comedy, uses the traditional method of marriage to resolve its conflict.

In The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Lotte has been seen as responsible for Werther’s fate. There are many ways through which Lotte’s behavior around Werther fuels his romantic obsession with her. Lotte continuously shows inappropriate affections towards Werther throughout the novel. Examples which show her affection for him are dancing the Waltz, the gift of the pink ribbon, and the bird beak kissing incident. Lotte leads Werther to believe she loves him by touching his hands, gazing at him, calling him “dear,” she entices him as well by requesting that he come to visit with her daily. Readers can also see Lotte’s improper affections towards him when she does not respond to Albert’s request that she stop seeing