Tainted Love Essays

by the lies told by Iago. He went from being the Hero to being the Fool. Now, how was such a good man tainted? It’s simple really. Othello listened to each and every lie Iago poured into his mind and didn’t doubt him all but once, as Iago was ‘’honest’ and one of his oldest friends. In the novel Othello by William Shakespeare, the star character: Othello, a man of a pristine reputation, was tainted. He became pitiful, ruthless, and cowardly by the time the play script had ended. All because of a few

Shakespeare’s classic love story Romeo and Juliet provides a glimpse into a world that is filled with family rivalry, death and the short-lived relationship between the two protagonists. At the begging of the play, the audience is introduced to the family rivalry between the Montagues and Capulets. Shakespeare creates this imperfect world that is filled with hatred as there is a civil strife between the two families. It is in this imperfect world that Shakespeare introduces Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other

about how much he loves her and how she is “the most exotic flower” to him because Daisy reciprocated the same feelings and agreed to wait for his return from war. The lines “I don’t know how you convince them and get them, but I don’t know what you do, it’s unbelievable,” refers to how no one is certain of how Gatsby obtained his wealth due to his business dealings being illegitimate, yet he continues to fool everyone into overlooking the truth.

Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Hamlet struggles to continue loving Ophelia the way he did once his trust is gone. With the recent death of his father and the marriage of his mother Hamlet attempts to understand the significance between trust and love through his conversation with Ophelia. Hamlet questions Ophelia’s truthfulness by asking: “Ha,ha! Are you honest? [...] Are you fair? [...] That is you be honest and fair, your honesty should submit to no discourse to your beauty” (3.1.103–8). He

In the short story ‘Popular Mechanics’, Raymond Carver implicitly uses lighting, and weather conditions to provide foreshadowing. Carver opens the story by alerting the reader of the somber and grim mood through the dreariness outdoors. The caliginous lighting acts as a foreshadowing within the story because the darkness outside mirrors far more than the physical darkness in the house. The author uses metaphors like ‘windows that faced the backyard’ and ‘cars slush[ing] by on the street outside’

reader the equation of love and hate entwined together with the tainted sense of reality. House descriptively writes a story about the passion of a mother’s love whose heart has been taken away by her child’s father, who through suspicious friends got Evona’s custody stripped away from her. On the other hand, Spera creates her poem in her perspective of being married to a man that betrayed her and played his cards of deceit. Both stories were passionately written after love had partaken, but the fairy

those around them. Both composers explore the themes of love and memories from the past through the lens of their social, historical and cultural contexts, shaping their values.  EBB’s poems caution against relationships built on changing things such as appearances, whereas in TGG, relationships are based on materialism. Both texts deal with the complex nature of relationships and how this complexity is further

Carol Oates, the protagonist Connie’s misperceptions about the adult world results in her rapid jolt from adolescence into the horrific realities of adulthood. Connie romanticizes the idea of romance, leading her to a great shock when her fantasizes of love come true in a perverted way through the character Arnold Friend. Additionally, her misperceptions about physical beauty as her determining factor of a person’s persona leads her to obsess over physical image highlighting her flaw of vanity. Connie’s

and himself killed in the battle. He caused himself and his friends unnecessary grief. As he pretends to be Christian in the letters that he sends, he is yet again deceiving the one he loves. By speaking for Christian, he isn’t helping him woo Roxanne at all. She isn’t falling in love with either of them. She is in love with a collaboration, a pure fantasy. If she had married Christian, how could she live with him, knowing that he could never be the one that she had loved before? While Cyrano has

how her friends perceive her but negatively by a single biased opinion, as a result Helena is overly critical of herself and sees herself disgusting and ugly. Helena’s perception of herself is directly influenced by the fact that she is blindly in love with Demetrius, Helena lusts after him so passionately that she endures the pain of seeing him run after Hermia; thinking that spending a few moments with him filled by “sweet pain” is better than not being around him at all. Demetrius chases Hermia

hair and Jim’s watch both represent Della and Jim’s love for each other and that they are willing to go to any extent for each other. They would make any sacrifice for each other and as Della even says in the story, “Maybe the hair on my head are numbered… but nobody could ever count my love for you” (O. Henry 206). The author expresses that Della loves Jim to the moon and back. The color gold symbolizes love

Reverend wishes only to feel the relief and freedom that washes over Hester by shedding the facade of holiness that holds Dimmesdale in such Hugh regard. Without this veil of lies, he is able to create his identity anew, even if it is a stained and tainted identity, at least it is not a web of lies that even Dimmesdale himself can no longer

Bracknell’s unempathetic wealth-driven persona makes her disapprove of Gwendolen and Jack’s love because Jack is not of inherent status. As an archetypal aristocrat and ruthless social climber, Lady Bracknell behaves in a way that socially discriminates others and excludes anyone who is not fit into her high class. Her disapproval of her daughter’s unsuitable marriage is a perfect example of how she disregards love for money. In the scene where the protagonist, Jack Worthing, allows himself to be interviewed

longer deemed worthy of marriage. This proves Kaskla’s (2003) statement about how women’s most important role in society is reproduction. Although Cemal found Meryem attractive, he didn’t act on his feelings for her at first because he saw her as “tainted” and as a “sinner.” As Professor Thompson states in her Powerpoint, how we think and behave “is contingent upon culture’s ideas about gender and the roles, rights, and responsibilities.” Cemal wanted to protect Meryem and maybe start a new life with

heretofore, her "wish fulfillment" overcomes her morality and sets the standard. She longs for beauty to develop a purpose for her, believing that beauty will fuel her fame and meaning, even though this is not so. Her determination to achieve this goal is tainted with the greed of cursing the baker and his wife, so that they may assist her in reaching her wish. Without thinking beforehand, her loss of power dictates that some wishes don 't

named with magnificent pure wings. The angel had been captured by humans and tortured. She kept him company when she could but one day they took him away, sadness began to taint the girl's soul when she realized that he was gone. The sadness that tainted the girl's soul opened a door to limbo. She was frightened and tried running, but before she could get away she was dragged through the door. She spent years there, in hell, suffering until she was forced the become like her tormentors. She became

find ourselves in our own relationships. In Romeo and Juliet, we see at first the tainted image of love that we find ourselves pining after, they immediately fell in love and they were willing to ignore every resisting variable plagued on their relationship. However, we begin to see

truth prevails in the end. He sets the scene in the mansion of the Messinan Governor Leonato. Don Pedro has just won a huge battle and has decided to pass through Messina. As he arrives, accompanied by Claudio and Benedick, Claudio quickly falls in love with Leonato’s daughter Hero, and Beatrice engages Benedick in a battle of wit and insults. As the play unfolds, the audience learns that Don Pedro’s brother, Don John the Bastard, will try to destroy Don Pedro’s plans no matter the cost or consequence

openingly has an affair. His mistress, Myrtle is also stuck in a loveless marriage, thus leading her to act upon her sexual desires with Tom The fact that people of this era, an example being Tom and Daisy, only marry for status and riches and not for love, leads spouses

man in love with a woman. The man must go far away from his love but he will always be with her in spirit. Love can transcend time and space so let it not be bogged down by humanity’s limits. He tells her that they are experiencing an expansion of love not a loss of it (line 4). The author utilizes many poetic devices like romantic diction, for example no matter where any lover goes their counter part is a hairs breath away. The author structure the poem this way to express that speaker love is no