Usually traditional love stories are positive,a dream come true, with an ending of happily ever after! Both stories portray the dark and ugly side of love that people often brush under the rugged and overlook like the pink elephant in the room. Divorce, adultery, rejection, pain, rape, abuse of all kinds, neglect, heartbreak, jealousy, and other bad conclusions are sometimes a resort of,"love" too. "love" is a subjective chemically reduced action that is not always innocent, positive or happy. Love could be such a beautiful thing only when its a devotedly mutual. When its not mutual it could be very hurtful, antagonistic, lonely, and heartbreak. I truly feel its better to love and be loved than never love at all. Love always had these cons attached to it but usually the pros always supersedes them, if the live is true enough. There is so many different types of love because it has such a wide spectrum, the most traditional kind of love is true love which is more rare than we want to believe.
Doris Lessing’s story, “How I Finally Lost My Heart”
The story has an awful dark .lonely, and depressing side of love and all it entails, bad and good. This narrator talks about her loves of her life first, the three lovers, father, brother and the one, not to mention two marriages a few loves affairs. She questions if love is still possible after that same love failed her. In her case she had looked for love in all the wrong places. It reminds me of Marilyn Monroe and her quest for love. Rumors had it, Joe DiMaggio, the famous baseball player, was the closest to true love as she got. The narrator has bad luck, upon her quest of love she seemed like she ran into allot dead ends. This is clearly a woman who has given up on love and don’t want to feel anymore. Her notion was if she got rid of her heart, she won’t feel anymore pain. Hopelessly given up on love, she didn’t live with her broken heart anymore.
Symbolism- "A,B,C," & "Woman in the Train" are symbolizes present in the story. Taking away the names from her loves and labeling her "three loves as A, B, & C" ; symbolizes her numbness of love, almost forgetting her three conquests by labeling them as an equation justifying why she doesn't need her heart anymore; rather pull it out over not wanting to even use it at all. The women on the train was symbolic for a mirror towards the narrator's life; they both suffered with a broken heart. The narrator feeling sorry for the woman on the train as she watched her and her partner fight and related with moments she had with her past lovers.
Extended metaphor- The heart she doesn't want anymore, being heartless, and her numerous conquests, or what she calls love, in her life. She doesn't want to feel and it doesn't want to love, she doesn't want her heart anymore. Sometimes you have to first accept your own heart and be in love with yourself in order to find true love and give your heart away to the right person.
Allegory- Heartless, Lust/Infatuation, Love and Heartbreak are definitely expressed through allegories throughout the whole story. The most main allegory was of love and the harsh reality I would love could be, of which both stories relate too. It takes loving yourself and being responsible for your own heart is the first steps of a foundation for true love. Unfortunately the narrator seemed like she skipped that learning lesson in her life.
Octavio Paz’s story, “My Life with the Wave”
The author uses symbolism to describe his version of what love and marriage; using a wave as the main symbol for the live of the character's life. In the story the character falls head of heels in love with each other, so he brings her home, and marries her. The infatuation stage had them smitten for each other with no fussing, arguing , and fighting. The wave suddenly get struck by sadness and depression and falls under this style for quite a while, anything the character tried to do couldn't make it up for any didn't know what to do to make her happy you love her so much. So last desperate attempts at making her happy, he brings a bunch of fishes to the wave, which lights her face up and makes her very happy. After a while the wave spends all her attention on these fishes and not on the main character; of which gets really jealous of the whole situation. Eventually, the wave gets very dissatisfied and antagonistic towards him leading to the character having no choice but to rid himself of the wave. So he eliminated the wave from his life unburdening himself from the emotional baggage he wasn't strong enough to deal with leaving him with a lesser burden of a broken heart (which, I’m sure, hurt worst when the wave was present in his life). "The Wave" is a great symbol for the love that occurred through this story. Waves come in intervals and increments but never really represents stability. A wave is the best object to tie down and expect to be yours forever; they are a constantly changing, so it makes sense the narrator labeled his ex wife as a wave.
Symbolism- "Fishes" and "The Wave" are the loudest symbols apparent throughout the story. The, "Fishes" symbolizes the other inch love interest or people in your life that are outside of the character’s and her’s circle/environment. "The Wave" which is his wife and symbolizes a enigma of emotion and possibly a mental illness like bipolar where a person suffers from highs of mania and lows of serious depression. The wave keeps moving, never settling down, always changing moods filled with heavy emotion, and living life in mood intervals.
Extended metaphor- The Wave, the character fell in love with. The relationship between the wave and character is like a surfer riding a wave; you can’t ride that one forever its not possible. It goes to show that sometimes love isn’t enough to survive through the waves of a relationship, just end up drowning with a secure life boat too.
Allegory- Love, Jealousy, and Divorce/Separation are definitely expressed through allegories throughout the whole story. The most consistent and main allegory was of love and the harsh reality that isn’t enough to hold a relationship up its just one of many supplement necessary to keep a relationship alive.
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
This Thing Called Love
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