What Is The Theme Of The Ballad Of Sad Cafe

When Lysander falls under the love potion's influence, he abandons Hermia, leaving her alone in the forest. When she wakes, she cries, "Lysander, look how I do quake with fear. Methought a serpent eat my heart away, and you sat smiling at his cruel pray." She is unaware of Lysander's departure, and her former lover is now pursuing another girl. Through the metaphor of a serpent eating her heart, Shakespeare shows the audience that young love can lead to heartbreak. Another example of this idea comes earlier in the story, when the four lovers are still in Athens. Hermia finds herself in a conversation with a distraught Helena, who complains, "O, teach me how you look and with what art you sway the motion of Demetrius' heart." It's clear through this statement and the rest of the scene that Helena is experiencing a lot of emotional pain from Demetrius' rejection. All throughout the play, Shakespeare constantly reminds us of the pain of young

Above all the tensions created by the discussion of marriage, Lysander deliver a quotes to his love Hermia. “The course of true love never did run smooth…” (Act 1, Scene 1, line 134) is a famous quote by Lysander. In the quote he conveys to readers that love is not perfect, it also has its ups and downs and that he and Hermia are going through a tough situation. Hermia and Lysander both love each other and have made a plan to meet in a forest and then escape Athens however the problem arises when Hermia has tells Helena this and she plans to tell Demetrius about this so that he will love her and not Hermia. The King of fairies− Oberon hears all this and decides to settle the dispute between all of them. He instructs his assistant Robin Goodfellow to search for Demetrius and put the love juice on his eyelids so that he is compelled to love Helena, he informs him about the dressing style of Demetrius in "thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on" (Act 2, Scene 1, line 263-264). However there is a problem, in the forest there are two Athenian men dressed in Athenian garments and their identities were mistaken; instead of putting the love juice on Demetrius's eyelids Robin Goodfellow put it on Lysander's eyelids. Now Lysander "loves" Helena and wants to get away from Hermia. After discovering Robin Goodfellow's mistake, Oberon tries to correct this mistake by putting the same love juice in Demetrius's so that he loves Helena eyes however

Hermia and Lysander behave irrationally throughout the whole play because they’re head over heels for each other; however, their love is oppressed by both her father Egeus and the strict Athenian law. In Act 1, Scene 1 when Egeus is at court with Hermia he uses a demanding and dominating tone to state, ‘as she is mine i may dispose of her’ This causes them to act spontaneously and irrationally and as a consequence, they run away from Athens to get married. This entertains the audience by adding more conflict and complication to the story. After they elope to the forest, magic becomes the force that turns love to a dramatic and conflict filled experience that is also entertaining. Lysander acts in irrational ways when he is put under the spell of ‘Love in Idleness’ where he states how madly he loves on Helena, and how much he hates Hermia. ‘Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose, / or I will shake thee from me like a serpent.’ Derogatory language and repetition is used to emphasise his hate toward Hermia and orders her to leave him alone. For example, in Act 3, Scene 2, Lysander has fallen in love with Helena and tells Hermia how he hates her. ‘Out, loathed medicine! O hated potion, hence!’ Conflict between characters create comedy in the play which entertains the audience because of the dramatic irony. Lysander’s insults in the statement are repetition as it is the same meaning but in different words. This language technique emphasises that Lysander wants Hermia to leave him alone.

With these features she Helena says that she would attract Demetrius and except him, unlike Hermia who wishes him away. She asks Hermia to teach her the art of her beauty and win the affection of Demetrius heart. The last character that shows jealousy is Hermia. She shows Jealousy when Lysander is spelled, and falls for Helena. While under a spell, Lysander tells Hermia:

Lysander on the other hand was not able to hold on to his love for Hermia during the time in the woods. In the beginning he started out madly in love with Hermia and unable to hide his true feelings for her. He was forced by the spell to forget about Hermia and instead he wanted her friend Helena, because of the nectar in his eyes, which made him fall in love with the first person he sees (intervention of supernatural, to change destiny). Lysander chased Helena and begged for her love. The spell from the nectar caused Lysander to take a totally different view on his life. Now, he wanted Helena and he could not even stand to look at

The book is filled with many different stories involving the men Mitch meets in the Valois Cafe, which is what the cafeteria was known as, as well as many commentative

Lysander can be seen as a victim of love, though the fact that he is forced to love Helena, because of the flower juice placed in his eyes, even though he loves Hermia. One example of this can be seen through the line “And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake. Transparent Helena! Nature shows, art, That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.” (Shakespeare 2.2 103-105) This line is from when he is first affected by the love potion, and it makes

Millie thinks her ‘family’ is real love when they are just TV screens. People in the town are hiding there emotions through screens, and new inventions. Society has took them that feeling are bad. When Montag reads Dover Beach, Mrs. Phelps starts sobbing. You can feel the anger rise in Mrs. Bowels as she gets mad and tells Montag to get rid of the poetry.

When the love potion was put on Lysander he had no feelings for Hermia but she still stayed true to him. Oberon wants to get involved in everybody's love life and Puck his sidekick puts the love potion on the wrong Athenian man and the love quadrilateral get confusing. Lysander said “ She doesn’t see Hermia- Hermia keep sleeping and do not come near me ever again! Eating too many sweets make people sick to their stomachs and people always hates mistakes they made in the past worse than anyone else hates those mistakes. Hermia, you're the sweet I’ve had too much of and the mistake I used to make so I hate you more than anyone else does.-I’ll use all my talents and efforts to serve Helena and bring her honor.” (Shakespeare.2.2.59-61.) Hermia

She knows the Mrs. McGrath will try to scam the people, but Nora catches her in the act and makes her feel guilty by telling her that with her “little accident there the way your hip pressed against the paper and you didn’t even know the paper was pulled down a bit.” (67) Nora through her sincerity helps out Angela who is currently struggling with getting over the grief of losing a child. The Italian grocer was also a stranger who took pity on the McCourts and did an act of good deed by giving them “bag o’ fruit. I don't give it to you I trow id out” (32). The grocer does this act of kindness just for the sake of helping them out. He even gave them credit so that they don’t go to sleep on a hungry stomach. Altruism is also developed into the theme: altruism causes the strengthening of family bonds. When Malachy Sr. brings home the box of chocolate, the piece of chocolate Frank got had a nut in it. Although his younger brothers were originally complaining about not having a nut, when Angela told them the nut will help his eyes, they say that “If I had another nut I’d give it to him for his eyes.” (271). The concern Frank’s brother have for Frank further develops altruism causes the strengthening of family bonds

The theme of this novel is solitude, and how it’s dealt with. The first example is Candy. Candy, an old handyworker, sacrifices his brittle, foul-smelling, and toothless dog.

It is this air of isolation that brings him together with his far-elder cousin, Miss Sook. “…neither of us had an ordinary outlook or background, and so it was inevitable, in our separate loneliness, that we should come to share a friendship apart” (243). This friendship with a woman fifty years his senior livens Buddy’s world as they spend all their time together, working in the garden, going fishing, and cooking up gigantic breakfasts. “…she was a child herself…she understood children, and understood me absolutely” (242). Buddy relates to her as an equal, creating a much needed friend that serves as an anchor in his childhood. As the primary figure in Buddy’s life, Miss Sook is able to teach him lessons about envy, vengeance, and empathy. She knows that Odd bullies Buddy, so she invites him to join their Thanksgiving dinner. Buddy is outraged and feels betrayed by his friend’s welcoming of an enemy. Immediately he views Odd in contempt as he watches him eye up one of his relatives while grabbing all the attention with his talented singing voice. “Odd was good, he could sing for sure, and the jealousy charging through me had enough power to electrocute a murderer.” (259). Overcome by this jealousy, Buddy immediately finds a way to find vengeance on Odd by accusing him of stealing a brooch from Miss Sook, which he was in fact guilty of. In the process of

Doctor Benedict Mady Copeland is another character lost in this book. He is a black doctor whose desire is to motivate people to demand their rightful place in American Society. He has ideas that no one seems to understand regardless of how hard he tries to explain him or her. Jake Blount is another pathetic character. He shows up at this cafe drunk and constantly acting foolish. He searches for someone to listen to him and finds that in Singer. He actually believes Singer understands him when Singer really doesn’t fully understand him. Mick Kelly is another character in the book. She has poor living ways and desires to write symphonies. She cannot express her love for music. She is also forced to quit school and take on a job to help the family out.

Wycherley shows how jealousy can make people lose their moral standards and commit acts with little regard for others. Harcourt’s jealousy causes him to go to extremes. He disguises himself as a parson with the intent to deceive Sparkish into believing he has been married to Alethea. Wycherley reveals Harcourt’s real plan to marry himself to Alethea to the audience through the use of irony: “nobody else / shall marry you, by heavens; I’ll die first, for I’m I should die / after it” (IV.i.148-150). Harcourt is propelled by jealousy, resorting to deceit and manipulation while holding little regard for others. Through Harcourt we witness jealousy’s corruption of society, making people superficial and selfish.

He reacted as if he wanted to avenge himself for the hard childhood he had to endure. In of short story “The Ballad of Sad Cafe”,the antagonist Marvin Macy, is the most damaged character.Also,because he came from a family who mistreated him, he was a troublemaker, he also wanted revenge on Miss Amelia for not loving him back and taking his fortune away from him.