The Willing Mistress Essay

interchanged—women are men and men are women. In “Lanval,” Queen Guinevere, King Arthur’s wife, is depicted as an authoritative woman—specifically over Lanval, the knight. Queen Guinevere wants Lanval to take part in an adulterous relationship—she wants to be his mistress: “Lanval, I’ve honored you sincerely, / Have cherished you and loved you dearly/All my love is at your disposal/ What do you say to my proposal? /Your

Medea, Cruel Monster or Heart-Broken Mistress? Euripides’ Medea is a play that focuses on Medea, first wife of Jason, and her path to vengeance when he abandons her for another woman. We can sympathize with some of Medea’s actions and feelings while others we despise. For, deserting his own children and my mistress, Jason has taken a royal wife to his bed, ... She lies without food and gives herself up to suffering, Wasting away every moment of the day in tears. (17-18, 24-25) Jason has abandoned

make Italy. This allowed him to gain the public’s trust, leading to him becoming Prime Minister and later the dictator of Italy (UXL Biographies 1). In April 1945, Mussolini and his mistress were fleeing anti-fascist partisans disguised as German soldiers. When they were crossing the Swiss border, him and his mistress were captured by partisans and the next day were shot and killed. (Klein 1). The assassination of Benito Mussolini was justified because of he adopted Nazi ideals about Jews and he ultimately

independence and control. Therefore, with the mother gone, similar to Emma in temperament and talent, Emma lost the sole person who had a position of control over her. As demonstrated by Mr. Knightley’s observation: “ever since she was twelve, Emma has been mistress of the house and of you all. In her mother she lost the only person able to cope with her. She inherits her mother’s talents, and must have been under subjection to her” (48). Therefore, Emma is not under subjection to Mr. Woodhouse, as we are

be together is hindered by Daisy’s husband, Tom Buchanan. Tom is a man of inherited wealth (old money). As part of that class, he appears to be more sophisticated than Gatsby. He has never been faithful to Daisy and cheats on her with his current mistress, Myrtle. Although they keep their relationship hidden, they disclose their relationship through a small dinner party at their apartment. In the novel, these vastly different

his problem is that he doesn't know how to get daisy back. My advice to Gatsby would be to not rush into a relationship with daisy before making sure she is 100% not interested in Tom Buchanan anymore. My reasoning for this is that daisy was not willing to say that she didn't love Tom when Gatsby was forcing her to say so. Once he is completely sure that daisy would rather be with him, then he should let Tom and daisy go about their breakup on their own. Tom would most likely react to this way better

She is a prime example of greed, but there are two other exceptional examples, Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby. While Daisy was greedy to have both love and money, Gatsby was greedy to reclaim Daisy and keep her to himself. And finally, Myrtle, Tom’s mistress, was greedy for wealth and material items. Together, they showcase Fitzgerald's final

The story of The Stranger by Albert Camus is quite simple. Monsieur Meursault is a simple man, leading a simple, useless life until he makes some new friends and finds himself with someone else’s blood on his hands and his life on the line. Through Meursault’s reaction to his own impending death, Camus portrays the meaninglessness of human life. We meet Meursault when he has just learned of his mother’s death. His employer is silently annoyed, “but he wasn’t too happy about it” (Camus part 1; 3)

Mr. Knightley says to Mrs. Weston: “ever since she was twelve, Emma has been mistress of the house and of you all. In her mother she lost the only person able to cope with her. She inherits her mother’s talents, and must have been under subjection to her” (48). Emma then is linked to her mother as similar in temperament and talent

and books and willing to risk his potential freedoms for the pursuit of knowledge.