Motherly love

Even though Jane and Antoinette find alternative sources of motherly love, they both attempt to reconcile with Mrs. Reed and Annette as they are willing to forgive them. In Jane Eyre, Jane wishes to care for Mrs. Reed on her deathbed despite how she was treated in childhood. Jane describes that her reasons to meet her aunt is due to a “strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries – to be reconciled and clasp hands in unity” (Brontë 798). Jane even breaks her childhood vow to never call Mrs

The poetess realistically depicts the burdens of domestic life, sickness, her ageing and decaying of body, and the anticipation of death in the final passage: I shall be the fat-kneed hag in the long queue The one from whose shopping bag the mean potato must Roll across the road. I shall be the patient On the hospital bed, lying in drugged slum And dreaming of home. I shall be the grandmother Willing away her belongings, those scraps and trinkets More lasting than her bones. Perhaps

Love through its many obstacles in A Midsummer Night's Dream Love comes with many complications and faces many obstacles. Shakespeare clearly portrays illustrates these difficulties this them through various relationships in his play, ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’. The characters face different obstacles which affect their relationships negatively. In the play, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ the main obstacles that cause negative effects on love are the use of magic, the law, and misunderstandings

from the waters of the sea and prepares to step onto the shore. Through linear techinques and artistic symbolism, the painting not only depicts the story and narrative of the goddess Venus’s birth but also seeks to exhibit the many different types of love and adoration which surround the creation of life. The painting was a commissioned work for the Medici Family of Florence, a powerful political and financial family which would later go on to become an influential royal house for centuries. Throughout

The Truth of Compassion Love does not consist of pure joy, but rather, it comes with pain to those who love; to love is to sacrifice. In C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, a version of Cupid and Psyche from the point of view of Psyche’s affectionate sister,Orual,the true meaning of love is brought about. Orual adores the young Psyche and cares for her like a mother. However, when the faultless Psyche is sacrificed to the Shadow Brute, son of the goddess, Ungit (Aphrodite), Orual is dumbfounded and

The first sentence makes the room sound wonderful, open for her to explore and enjoy her time in. However the barred windows and “rings and things” is a red flag. This can mean her husband would want her in a safe environment and is treating her as a child, keeping her from getting hurt with bars, and locking her up in a child’s room, or a room made for the insane. === Her fixation on the wallpaper is a bit disturbing. She seems to be very affected by the aesthetic of the wallpaper. She starts

focuses on the theme of forbidden love, The God of Small Things written by Arundhati Roy. This novel explores love and how love can’t be ignored when confronted with social boundaries. The novel examines how conventional society seeks to destroy true love as this novel is constantly connected to loss, death and sadness. This essay will explore the theme of forbidden love, by discussing and analysing Ammu and Velutha's love that is forbidden because of the ‘Love Laws’ in relation to the caste system

In the eighteen hundreds, women were expected to love their husbands, clean and cook, and take care of the children. Most women had to listen to what their husbands said and follow it, so there were not much equal rights in the time. However, in the book The Awakening, the main character Edna is not the typical nineteenth century women. Edna cares about her children, but she is not the motherly figure. Furthermore, she does not worship her husband like many other women do, and she becomes rebellious

mothers. Tessie Hutchinson (The Lottery) and Hester (The Rocking-Horse Winner) were both from very average families. Both were married and had children. The difference was that Hester felt that children were forced upon her and felt that she could not love them, even though everyone that knew her thought she was a great mother. "Nevertheless, when her children were present, she always felt the center of her heart go hard." (Kennedy & Gioia 2013, 235). Tessie Hutchinson, on the other hand seemed to be

longs for Brett’s love. However, she, already engaged to another man, dismisses his romantic attempts, more focused on the physical parts of relationships, which seem vital to a traditional relationship. Although it feels like conventional intimacy is largely absent in the novel, a close look at marriage and Brett and Jake’s unusually deep affection reinvents the definition of love. Utilizing dysfunctional, discontented marriage, Hemingway illustrates that marriage does not equate love. For instance