Essay On Dysfunctional Relationships

No relationship is the same as the next. Each one has something different to offer than the others because not everyone is alike. There are functional and dysfunctional types of relationships. Some relationships display unconditional love, happiness, and passion such as the poem “How Do I Love Thee?” This relationship would be considered functional because both partners understand a variable changes systematically according to the variable of one another. However, there are some relationships that are dysfunctional. Meaning one or both partners often feel little conflict about controlling the other’s private life without permission. They often believe what belongs to their partner is also theirs without concerning their partner’s feelings.

If Damon’s, all my hopes are crossed; Or that of my Alexis, I am lost.” (713). Although this poem talks about love, it is not meant to be deep and romantic. It is simply about a narrator who likes flirting and attention rather than a deep serious romance. This love triangle would be labeled as dysfunctional because the narrator believes both men should show her affection; however, she fails to realize the men’s feelings could be involved and she is using them for her own selfish reasons. "Behn is one whose writings both embody the contradictions of society and, at the same time, offer a critique of it"

He wanted her joy, smiles, and laughter to be directed toward him only. The wife of Duke of Ferrara, Duchess, was a simple woman. She respected everyone in the same manner and treated all human beings with equality. The words the Duke used to describe her made her seem as she was a classy woman. Her personality made the Duke jealous and he orders her to be killed. Browning writes, “I gave commands: Then all smiles stopped together, There she stands As if alive” (45-47). The Duke wants Duchess’s portrait to be hung on the wall in his palace to show his artistic taste and to ascertain so-called moral values in the Victorian