Abstract This paper analyzes Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1992 French film "The Lover". It discusses the political implications of fusion of the erotic with the exotic love affair of teenaged French girl with older Chinese man in French-colonized Indochina. The paper explores the racial aspects of the film. The author offers different perspectives on the key characters.
Abstract The following paper argues that it is preferable to be a lover rather than a rapist in debate. The writer also maintains that it is unwise to be a seducer to the extent that seducer invariably means dissembling and obfuscation. As the writer sees it, one should be an empathetic and thoughtful debater and also willing to see the humanity in all people with whom one comes into contact - however disagreeable that person and his or her perspectives may be. In the end, while the writer feels that we may all, on occasion, argue unilaterally, and should all be well-versed in all forms of debate, the writer maintains that arguing as a lover is the most important thing of all.
From the Paper "In my own life, I have occasionally been a "rapist" when debating a point - at least as Brockriede defines aggressive, argumentative debate. However, I bristle at the charge even as I make it against myself. For one thing, to be impassioned about a point of view does not necessarily make one a "rapist" in any sense. Further, if one overwhelms an adversary in debate through strong logic, sharp analysis, clever argumentation, and a shower of statistics, the idea that such constitutes "rape" seems absurd; simply put, to believe in something sufficiently that one is passionate about it in debate (to the point that one even calls into question the veracity and legitimacy of a differing perspective) is simply to be an arguer of conviction - not necessarily an arguer consumed with the thought of intellectually "raping" an opponent."
Abstract This paper discusses the impact of apartheid in two stories by South African writer Nadine Gordimer: "Town Lovers" and "Country Lovers." It looks at the similar theme of both stories relating to the nature of love and the nature of crime and how in each story, a crime is committed by two people who have a relationship with each other that, solely because it crosses racial lines, is a crime.
From the Paper "In her twinned short stories Town Lovers and Country Lovers South African writer Nadine Gordimer asks her readers to consider the nature of love and the nature of crime the two of which can in fact be the same under the apartheid regime of South Africa."
Abstract This paper examines how both Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" and Marguerite Duras' "The Lover" address what happens when a woman searches for a way to leave her present life behind and seek a new one that may, or may not, be any better. It looks at how in "The Awakening", 28-year-old Edna Pontellier struggles for self hood but does not have the strength to accept the ramifications of this possibility. In "The Lover", the 15-year-old female narrator embraces self-awareness and uses her acquired strength to widen life's possibilities.
From the Paper "The Awakening takes place at the end of the 19th century, when the Western world was beginning to undergo major changes due to the Industrial Revolution and increased urbanization. Although women were beginning to envision a less-restrained future, they were still, for the most part, bound by tradition to be subservient to their husbands. Middle- and upper-class women were expected to stay at home as idle, decorative symbols of their husband's wealth--entertaining friends and business associates and caring for children and their spouse's needs. They spent their other hours playing music and singing, visiting friends, or reflecting well on their husbands reputations in other ways. Despite the fact that women often brought a dowry to a marriage, wives were possessions."
Abstract This paper is an analysis of the book "Sons and Lovers" by D.H. Lawrence. It focuses on the character of the mother, Mrs. Morel and discusses whether she was a good mother or not.
From the Paper "In Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence presents the compelling image of a woman who has physically given birth to her sons, but never released their souls from her womb. Mrs. Morel has failed in her own life, and become hopelessly trapped in a mundane working class existence. Yet when her children are born, it is a kind of second birth for her as well. She spends the remainder of her life teaching them to live and guiding their lives, because through them she can finally experience the creative and upwardly mobile existence she has always longed for. Even after her death, Paul will say that ?his soul could not leave her, wherever she was.?"
Tags: Getrude, Clara, Morel, family, value, death, example, maternal
Abstract This paper examines the controversial book "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D.H. Lawrence which is full of social, political and cultural implications. It looks at how, by focusing on the forbidden relationship between Lady Connie Chatterley and Oliver Mellors, Lawrence reveals a great deal about the structure and politics of post-war society. It discusses how although the main theme of the book is love, the unproductiveness, inhumanity and ugliness of life in a local mining community play a large role and how the political elements of the book are clearly demonstrated by Lady Chatterley's life in a society devoted to making money.
From the Paper "The Chatterleys' marriage was main theme in the story, as society unfairly viewed its failure as the fault of Lady Chatterley, who had a difficult time maintaining a relationship with a husband who was half paralyzed and half crazy. She looks to Mellors to make her feel alive again. However, the prosecution fails to realize that the couple is building a strong relationship that has a good chance of leading to a successful marriage. They can only point finders and accuse the couple of immorality."
Tags: oliver, mellors, connie, marriage, love, society
Abstract This paper will examine an analysis of "Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawrence and "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte. By showing character, thematic, and stylistic approaches to novel writing in these works, we can compare and contrast the methods used.
Abstract This ten-page undergraduate paper is about D.H.Lawrence's book "Sons & Lovers" one of the landmark novels of the twentieth century. The paper discusses various aspects of the book but focuses mainly on the theme of sexuality in the book.
Abstract This paper explains that both ?Sons and Lovers? and "Dubliners", significant literary works in their own right, challenged social mores by including discussions of sexuality in their stories. The author points out that these books, which are among the early accounts of the social effects of industrialization, presented a realistic depiction of the social conditions of the poor and working class. This paper argues that these literary works broke from romantic and often contrived fiction, which was popular in the 19th century, ushering in the dawn of a more realistic writing style.
Table of Content
Sexuality and Love
Loneliness, Isolation and Decay
Modern Style
Conclusion
From the Paper "To deal with this unspoken and incestuous tension, Paul Morel employs another Freudian concept -- transference. The recipients of Paul's romantic and sexual attentions are Miriam the chaste neighbor and Clara, the sensual older woman. Even in these relationships, the presence of his mother looms large. Paul wants a woman to forcefully claim him, a task that the wallflower-like Miriam fails to fulfill. Clara, the older woman, is clearly a maternal substitute for Gertrude Morel. However, Clara's husband cuts short any progress this relationship could make."
Abstract This paper is a critical essay of the politics of representation of the characters in Israel in the novel, "Ten Thousand Lovers," by Edeet Ravel. Quotes from the novel and external sources are included ,along with a list of works cited. An analysis of the Hebrew and Arab relationship is also discussed.
From the Paper "This novel uses Israel as a focal point of hybridity. This is a nation where many different cultures, languages, and opinions come together. It is essential to the success of this country that all the parts cooperate together to operate as a whole. Ravel does a beautiful job of illustrating this importance through the stories and actions of her characters. The provided history of linguistics and integration of italicized Middle-eastern culture into the text solidify the efforts of Ravel to represent the diversity of Israel. Everyone can be thought of as a ten thousand-faced dice. Upon one roll, one face will be completely exposed to the naked eye, and will be used to reprsent the dice as a whole."
Tags: arab, hebrew, hybridity, palestinians, israel
Abstract This essay reads Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" from a Freudian and general psychoanalytic perspective, locating signals in the diction and style of the poem to argue for the bipolarity of the narrator's psyche--a quantifiable mental ailment which can account for the monstrosity of the act performed in the poem. Quotations from psychiatric texts provide a scientific context for this reading against which passages from the poem are explicated. Additionally, a brief overview of Freud's theory of "ego" balances further forays into literary psychoanalysis.
From the Paper "In his dramatic monologue "Porphyria's Lover," Robert Browning depicts the murder of a woman, Porphyria, by her lover, the poem's narrator. The first person narration style employed in this work offers a deep insight into the mental processes that guide the narrator's behavior and eventually convince him to commit such a heinous act. These insights, when analyzed from the perspective of modern behavioral sciences such as psychology and Freudian theory, reveal a variety of symptoms that coalesce to depict Porphyria's lover as both a manic depressive and a slave to his baser impulses. Browning's narrator, therefore, functions within a state of mental imbalance that is reflected both in his actions and in the narration itself."
Tags: agricola, barrett, bipolar, ego, id, insanity, johannes
Abstract This paper reviews, discusses and compares the books 'A Perfect Peace' by Amos Oz and 'The Lover', by Abraham Yehoshua. According to the paper, Israelis and Palestinians are locked in a fierce, historical culture of loathing for one another. The paper goes on to say that there is little if anything a community and its individuals can do about the big picture of war, albeit people in homes and neighborhoods theoretically could create a peaceful existence removed from suffering. But in the two novels reviewed in this paper, even at the family and married couple level, there is no way to remove suffering from caring lives.
From the Paper "In Abraham Yehoshua's The Lover, war is again an ongoing theme - which is predictable and understandable coming from Israeli authors - and along with war are numerous kinds of suffering. On page 3, there are "so many missing, so many mysteries" as to what happened to soldiers who cannot be accounted for. And compounding the fact of soldiers missing in battle, is the sense of deep suffering the loved ones endure as they gather the "last remnants - scraps of clothing, bits of charred documents, twisted pens," and, brutally painful is certainly would be for any family member to discover "bullet-ridden wallets" and "melted wedding rings."
Tags: protagonist, kibbutz, war, hero, miscarriage, bullet, arab
Abstract This paper discusses Marguerite Duras' (born Marguerite Donnadieu) novel "The Lover." The paper shows how the novel mirrors part of Duras' own life. It discusses her knowledge of the landscape of Indochina, the people, the mode of life and the tensions of that part of the world during the era that she wrote about and discusses how she brings that out in the book.
From the Paper "The novel evokes a time and place that has experienced a great deal of history since and that passed through a long war and its aftermath. Duras lived there before much of the trouble started in earnest, though some of the sources of the tension between different groups in this society can be seen in this novel. She creates an image of often contradictory and overly dramatic human action surrounded by a sea that is more timeless and continuous. Duras draws on her own story for the details and her memory for the setting and the society of that time, creating a book that is always interesting if somewhat depressing about human nature and human relations."
Abstract This paper provides an overview of D.H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" citing different psychoanalytic theories. The author explains that although there is a likeness between the life of D. H .Lawrence and the experiences of Paul Morel, the main character in the story, this essay examines Paul without commenting on any psychoanalytic symptoms regarding the creator.
From the Paper "Critics like Alfred Kuttner have started a trend which study on the close relationship between Paul and his mother and interpret this within the Freudian Psychoanalysis as the Oedipal Complex. When examined trough the views of Freud, the mother-son relationship in "Sons and Lovers" is really the type of relationship which Freud names as "oedipal crisis" but it works differently in this novel. Naturally, the mother is the first love object for all boys. They want her attention and her love. Similarly, the two boys of Morels, Paul and his eldest brother William, see their mother as a divine creature and live as her worshippers. Paul imagines that he and his mother will live together when he is old enough to earn money by himself and when his father has died. Paul loves his mother so much that he wants to be with her and spend all of his time with her. To live with his mother by himself is his greatest desire. When Paul gets ill, he sleeps with his mother and for him this is more healing than the medicine.
"Paul loved to sleep with his mother. Sleep is still most perfect in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.(Lawrence 67)
"The quotation above is important in that it shows how much Paul likes being with his mother. He feels secure and relaxed. Not only physically but also spiritually he feels himself healed.
"Of course, each of us loves our mothers too much and our mothers, less or more, are effective in our relationships with others, especially with women. In fact, loving mother too much or her dominance in the relations can not be assessed as an oedipal crisis. There should be a rival for the mother's affection; the father. The father is stronger and superior in many ways to the boy so at the beginning, they are jealous of their father and the father is seen as an enemy and is hated by the boys. Moreover, as Paul does, they sometimes wish him die."
Abstract This paper discusses how an important theme within D. H. Lawrence's 'Sons and Lovers' is that of relational opposites and how a particularly notable polarity exists in the rivalry between the characters, Miriam and Clara, in their respective sexual relationships with Paul Morel. The paper looks at how clues suggesting the nature of these relationships are imbedded in specific imagery throughout the novel. The paper also analyzes the image of the wren's nest passage in relation to Paul and Miriam, and the River Trent passage in relation to Paul and Clara, to help establish and clarify the tone of these specific relationships.
From the Paper "In the same way that the wren's nest passage reveals insights into the relationship between Paul and Miriam, so too the Trent River passage provides insights into the relationship between Paul and Clara. On one remarkable outing to the river Trent, Paul buys Clara "a bunch of scarlet, brick-red carnations" (Lawrence 350). The couple enter a dark and wet grove, the track of which is sticky with fallen leaves - Lawrence's imagery is clearly sexual. "Laughing, she looked down into his eyes. Then she leaped, her breast came against his, he held her and covered her face with kisses" (352). From the very beginning of this scene we see a marked difference in the relationship between Paul and Clara versus that of Paul and Miriam. While Paul buys Clara flowers, she does not seek to absorb them into her soul, and they are not part of a religious experience."
