The story of The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas, follows the epic tale of D’Artagnan, a young and noble man who is incredibly skilled with a sword, and his quest to become a member of the the Musketeers. He later meets three other musketeers who aid him in his journey, one of which is far more mysterious and saddened than the rest named Athos who later reveals that he was hurt by a woman who used love to blind him of her true intention to steal from his family. Through D'artagnan's journey, he uses similar tactics on several women to gather information on the whereabouts of his kidnapped mistress and quickly neglects them and their feelings. When he finally finds her, she is laying on the floor poisoned by one of the women he …show more content…
This idea of the main character being so close to achieving love but falling short causes the theme of love being rare to illuminate. Alexandre Dumas’ conjured characters, D’Artagnan and Athos, help depict his vision of love being something that hurts the lover through the use of character personality. Athos, the mysterious musketeer, drinks solemnly while his companions laugh and make jokes, and despite his age being much younger than his companions, he acts much older and mature. For the longest time there was no explanation for his troubles until he finally spills his past about his one and only lover. After explaining that the woman he loved deceived him for his riches he explains, “I tied her hands behind her back and hung her from a tree. I murdered her. That cured me me of beautiful, poetic and amorous women” (253). From upon initial confrontation to Athos, the reader finally understands the reasons for Athos’ contrasting personalities with his friends. He poured his love out for another women who used it to blind him of her true intentions. He kills his love and is permanently scarred in terms of his character being forever changed to the dark and saddened man the reader sees today. Not only do we see that love is a force that hurts but also the character again see’s how rare love truly is. D'Artagnan is not invulnerable to love’s ability to hurt either. Though throughout the novel, D’Artagnan’s composure is a headstrong,
The fight for justice is not always unequivocal or favorable, sometimes justice is given by means that do not seem fair at all. William Styron says in a novel that life “is a search for justice.” It is blatant that throughout Khaled Hosseini's novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, female characters are continuously battered with injustices. Hosseini hones into the oppression of women and the fight for women empowerment through the life of one of his main characters, Mariam. Her journey is shown throughout the novel where she struggles to search for and understand justice.
Judy garland who is purportedly named Dorothy dale in the move the wizard of Oz is the main protagonist in most of the Oz novels. Frank Baum created the fictional character who has been idolized in the American movie culture because of the character she has played in most movies, books, animations, games and on TV. At first she appeared in the novel the wonderful wizard of Oz which was created in 1900 and thereafter, she was able to reappear in most of the sequels showing her importance in various adaptations, notably, in the 1939 film named the wizard of Oz (Pfefferman, 2013). in the movie, the wizard of Oz, she acts as a young orphaned girl from one of the farms in Kansas which was owned by uncle henry and aunt Em. Life in the farm is considered to be composed of hard work and it provided little opportunity for Dorothy to have excitement in the farm. She is able to express her desires of exploring what was beyond Kansas through the use of a wishful song of what might be lying at the other end of the rainbow. One of the richest people in the town gets a permit of obtaining her dog, Toto, and she tries to save her life by running away. She changes her mind and decided to go back home when a tornado drops from the sky and everything changes radically in the movie.
Lord of the Flies is a novel written in 1954 by William Golding. A plane carrying a group of British citizens trying to escape the nuclear war gets shot down and lands on a deserted tropical island. The only survivors are children ranging from the age of six to twelve-year-olds. The younger children are nick named “littluns” and the older children are nick named “biguns”. At first, they celebrate their freedom from the war but then they begin to realize there aren't any adults to supervise them, they don't have food, they don't have shelter, and they are stranded on a deserted tropical island. One of the characters Piggy is classified as smart but is fat chubby and has asthma so he isn't capable of much things. “ “My auntie told me not to
In Anne Stevenson’s “Eros,” the god of love is shown to be broken and abused. Many negative words are used to emphasize Eros’ brokenness. He is described as a “bully boy,” a “brute” that “offends,” and is given “blows” delivered by “lust.” These words are not pleasant, as they illustrate an offensive, hurtful figure. As a “slave” to immortality, Eros is doomed to a “bruised” and “battered visage” for eternity. It is destined for him to endure such a future because of the nature of his job. These strong words of hate and hurt show the pain that love had to endure. The caller of love asks, “Can this be you, with boxer lips and patchy wings askew?” Eros answers with, what “you see is what long overuse has made
It is a common experience: a woman dates a man who is rude to everyone except for her. He makes her feel special, but a few months later, he becomes an abusive, controlling boyfriend. Walter Younger from the play “A Raisin In The Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, while not an abusive person is a milder example of this phenomenon. He is the father in a large African American family, and lives with his mother, sister, wife, and young son. His father has recently died, and his mother, Lena, receives an enormous check from their life insurance. They need this money, as they live in a small house and need to move to a larger one, but Walter wants to invest the money into opening a liquor store instead. Although the play seems to revolve around him, Walter
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.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, and the impossible love of Ethan Frome and Mattie Silver. These two stories have more in common than you think. They both end sourly, as each resists a “happy ever after” ending. Both romances also seem to convey that love isn’t always what it seems. And both their characters set unrealistic expectations for the others. As these stories unfold side by side, they seemed unlikely qualifiers of similarities, at first. But as one reads more and more, each tale exists to try to give a message to all who read. In reality, life and love don’t often end happily ever after.
Ever wondered how love can bring you happiness and pain and make you sane and crazy at the same time. How this emotion can change you and make you accept things you are not used to. How this emotion can overpower you in many ways in which you did not know existed. In Lancelot by Chretien de Troyes, the power of love is a commanding driving force that can dominate a person’s mind, body, and soul and one who is courageous enough to love sometimes undergoes serious consequences. Consequences that are driven from the power of love that harm and cause hardship to the one who is determined to seek love.
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events of the story add to the theme. Even then, the character’s reactions to these events are what strengthen the theme of loneliness.
Many young characters in literature go through a maturity process in which he or she starts to comprehend the world around them. Maturity comes with living through different experiences and learning along the way. In The Once and Future King by T.H. White, the protagonist, Arthur, commonly called Wart, goes through a series of teachings by his tutor, Merlyn. As he is turned into different creatures, Wart learns about life through these different perspectives. As the novel goes on, Arthur matures both physically and mentally through Merlyn’s lessons, allowing him to evolve into a wise and powerful King.
Alexandre Dumas shows us through characters and plot just how powerful love can be. It can take the place of hatred and anger. It can place happiness in the hearts of the most morose. Love is the most powerful thing in the universe, whether it be familial, romantic, or platonic. It was like this in 1844, when the novel was published, and it is still like this in 2017. One moral in The Count of Monte Cristo is that love is the strongest force in the world because it can take the place of hatred and
Consequently, this picturesque poetic device helped communicate the theme of lost love by helping the reader associate the personas’ thoughts and beliefs with their own.
The term “Eros,” referring to passionate love in English, has long been the mainstream of themes in drama, literature, arts, and cinematic media. The fascinating power of love has been exhaustively publicized, and the pursuit of love is diffused in streets and lanes. Conversely, in ancient times, many poets, especially Virgil, Ovid and Apuleius, described eros as such an evil spirit that it will destroy the female soul thoroughly, except for the one in Apuleius’ story of Cupid and Psyche. Even if taking into account the historical background of a patriarchal community and therefore the esteemed male dominance, the particular case of Psyche’s surviving and even thriving her encounter with eros
Throughout Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, the character Jean Valjean, the Patron-Minette, and Gavroche have a lot in common. What defines them as people, though, are their actions in life and the actions of others. Hugo emphasizes how the lack of those things (education and kindness) leads to criminal ways and an ungratified way of life. No one has shown them affection or kindness which leads them to believe society is mean and they develop hatred towards it. Not one of them were educated, which leads to ignorance and a lack of opportunities in life, which leads to crime in the long run.