Lover

Natural or supernatural? “The Demon Lover”, by Elizabeth Bowen, is a short story that tells of the protagonist, Mrs. Drover, and her frightful experience with a ghost. After returning to *her horrifying home in London succeeding World War 2, her guilt and anxiety of breaking her promise to her dead fiancé creates a situation of devilish illusions, leading to a suspenseful ending. It is believed that these experiences could have been either natural, in the thought that these events were made up in

Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” he talks about Porphyria and the man she was seeing. Browning doesn’t give the male character a name but the poem was being told from the male character’s point of view. When reading from his point of view at first the reader would think that this poem would be the typical love poem because of the narrator’s tone. But that suddenly changes as the reader continues to read on and find out that he ends up killing her toward the end of the poem. Also, by reading

across the margins of decorative paper. In the short story, “The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen, the main character endures the hardships of retaining mental sanity when facing a past lover returning home years later. In the same way, the poem “Answers to Letters” by Tomas Tranströmer explains in first person point of view the overbearing weight of anxious thoughts arising from time elapsing. Using comparable symbols, “The Demon Lover” and “Answers to Letters” characters illustrate how unstable weather

“The Demon Lover” is a short story in which the author, Elizabeth Bowen, creates a story about a women whose worst nightmare lives within her own mind. The protagonist, Mrs. Drover, returns home to a desolate scene that is indicative of the state of mind that she is in. Upon entering and checking on the house, she observes a mysterious letter whose origin is unknown. This ultimately sends Mrs. Drover into a state of panic and causes her to become increasingly mentally unstable. As a result, Mrs

them, some even show major public display of affection. But the two men who narrate Porphyria's Lover and The Last Duchess show their love by murdering their significant others. The two stories can be compared to each other, and contrasted from each other, and finally, the men in this time period are believed to have had totally different attitudes towards women as men tend to today. Porphyria's Lover and the Last Duchess are very easily comparable to each other. “looking as if she were alive...”

the “Demon Lover”, Elizabeth Bowen uses foreshadowing, flashback, and point of view to convey a story of a young woman haunted by her pass. In the short story The Demon Lover, Mrs. Drover returns to her home to collect some personal belongings during the aftermath of a recent bombing, while gathering things she finds a letter and thinks of her long-dead fiancé. This causes for questions to rise. Imagery, flashback, and point of view are all used to convey the story of The Demon Lover by Elizabeth

text. In this deconstructive interpretation of D.H. Lawrence’s “Sons and Lovers”, a biographical context has been created in an attempt to analyse the text by outlining and matching up incidents and/or events, and characters in the novel which are projections of real life events and people in the life of the author himself. Indeed, there are so many things in “Sons and Lovers” that bear resemblances to

In "The Demon Lover," by Elizabeth Bowen, Kathleen Drover returns to London from her house in the country in order to gather some things that she and her husband had abandoned during the bombings of the war. It is a humid, rainy day in late August and her once familiar street is now mostly deserted. The caretaker of her house is supposed to be out of town for a week and her arrival is assumed unknown. Mrs. Drover enters the old musty house and discovers a letter addressed to herself and it is

from Nazi planes, going hungry or without as U-boats prevent food from getting into people's’ bellies, separating families, loved ones dying in the war, the mental strain on the human mind was much more than it should ever have to bear. The “Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen is a short story revolving around a woman and her disastrous trip to gather her mementos from her home in London. Set in 1941 London, life at the time was hell. The events that unfold through the brief story leave many critics battling

In the book of The Demon lover, there’s a character named Mrs. Drover, she’s a widow. Mrs. Drover is affected by both of the World Wars which caused her to develop bereavement. Mrs. Drover lost her ex-fiance during the first world war and during the second world war, London was being bombed during world war II which caused it not to be safe to live in the city. Mrs. Drover was forced to desert her house and move to the country. However, Mrs. Drover went back to visit her abandoned home to pick up