Using literary techniques, style, diction, and tone in those two poems, he helps his audience understand the views of these two specific poems to buttress his notion that love should not be desired and if you are trying to claim love, then you are going to accept pain as well. Overall, both poems address different audiences and that their respective speakers make different arguments to those audiences with these differences in mind, Donne constructs gender dynamics between femininity and masculinity. For “The Apparition”, the narrator is enraged how his lover, a woman, hurt him and now he is scorned about the decision of her to reject his love.
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Marriage does not mean the end of romance and love.įor instance, John Donne’s poems, “Song: Go and catch a falling star” and “The Apparition” both illustrate love as a bad idea to attain in fact, he forces the reader to understand why love is a bad idea because in “Song”, love is not unattainable because women are not honest or beautiful. Personally, I believe in the institution of marriage. I agree with Wilde’s opinion of marriage in the Victorian society, but I do not believe that his opinion is accurate today.
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On the other hand, his opinion would be disregarded now, as people do not tend to marry for social status or financial gain, but for love and companionship. Oscar Wilde’s assessment of marriage can be considered cynical, but it was a relatively accurate assessment considering the time period. Whether it’s the upbringing or culture, divorce is not an option. But those marriages are more successful than love marriages.
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The marriages I have experienced are arranged marriage. Divorce is not a solution when a bump comes along the road. At the quick sign of trouble, couples easily tend to look at divorce for a solution. For example, Lane insinuates that marriage is boring by stating that the wine is better in the hous. Wilde’s view on marriage is known through the characters. He also viewed that with marriage, comes stress and unhappiness. Wilde also expressed through the characters that romance and happiness is hindered within the bonds of matrimony. In The Importance of Being Earnest, the characters make witty jibes against the institution and concept of marriage by poking fun at the monotony of marriage, the social misuse of marriage, and the reasons to marriage. Wilde’s view of marriage is that it is blight, which could be because of his own marriage or his homosexuality. Marriages, among the aristocrats, were viewed as a financial contract. One it is a traditionally sacred ceremony, and two, he can emphasize the importance of wealth and status among the upper class. Wilde poked fun at the aristocrats by using marriage for mainly two reasons.
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Marriage is the plot’s main core, where the two young men desire to marry two young women, who in return desire to marry men named Ernest. The hypocritical custom and traditions were also mocked. In many lines, Wilde made a mockery of the most sacred tradition marriage. Throughout the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, there is a pessimistic view on marriage. Oscar Wilde ridiculed the institution of marriage. In a cynical way, marriage was considered as a means to an end. These three criteria were considered to be the nature and purpose of marriage of that time. In the play, marriage is reflected as the conventional Victorian society respectability, which is character, income, and status. Marriage is of paramount importance in The Importance of Being Earnest.