Essays on First Wife

True Love Unites: The Final Romantic Word in Carver’s “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love.”

Raymond Carver is one of the authors who have explored one of the perspectives on love. In the short story “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love”, Carver explores the ideas of different people when they talk about love. There is a need to focus on certain elements as they are crucial to the understanding of the short story. One such element is the elusiveness of love. The fact that people have different definitions of love, or will find fault in one other’s definition of love is testament of this characteristic. This is evident in the ...

Love is arguably one of the most discussed topics in the social realms. Love is not just a preserve for the social circles. Scholars in the academic realm have explored various dimensions of the subject. Carver is one of the authors who have explored one of the perspective of love. In the short story, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, Carver explores the ideas of different people when they talk about love. There is a need to focus on certain elements as they are crucial to the understanding of the short story. One such element is ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s fiction used symbols and intense imagery to tap into the dark and unknown parts of human existence. Hit gothic tales sought to redefine the ultimate human experience by showing the prevalence of horror in everyday life. Normal individuals are driven to rage and madness and they get to commit the most heinous crimes without reasonable justification for their actions. In “Legia” and “The Black Cat”, Poe relies on symbolism and imagery to show humanity’s relationship with nature and death. Poe explores man’s attempt at rationalizing the irrational. This paper seeks to compare and ...

Fredegunda was the queen consort of Chilperic I, who was the king of the Soissons. Fredugunda had previously been a servant of Chilperic I’s first wife Audovera. Fredugunda convinced Chilperic to divorce Audovera anf put her in a convent. Soon Chilperic dumped Fredugunda and married Galsuenda. She was upset that the king still loved Fredugunda and felt that her marriage to Chilperic was dishonorable. So she asked to return to her home (4.28). Chilperic persuaded her to stay, her then had Galsuenda strangled in her bed (4.28). Fredugunda became queen and Galsuenda’s sister Brunhilda began a feud ...

Almost all classic songs are about love. Since ancient times, artists have endeavored to write songs of love to stir the heart. Their works have ranged from the saccharine and sappy to the truly moving. In spite of the artists’ varied levels of accomplishment and artistic merits, each of these songs relies on certain tropes and exhibits certain qualities that are endemic to the “love song” genre. In all quintessential love songs, three tenets (common qualities) have stood out; simple lyrics delivered with sincerity, use of a saxophone and they are sung in moderately slow tempos.

Quintessential love songs ...

Women of today are stronger. Their status is changing from the past to the present. Years ago, women are considered responsible only as wives. Simply listened to their husbands, became fulltime wives; they never enjoyed life and focused on how to serve their husbands, and no freedom to express themselves as women. Men believed that women have no right to pursue their career other than being homemakers and mothers; looked down by men. At present, women are more active in their role in the society, conscious about their status and they progress in view of their rights as well. ...

Madame Bovary was a book written in most part about desires, dream worlds, expensive luxuries, adultery and betrayal. Emma Roualt, a convent-educated farm girl with a head full of romantic fantasies and ideals, is willing to do anything to get off her father’s farm. During her time at the convent school she learned from romance novels (novels that were considered blasphemy during this time period) how she dreamed her life should be, she also acquired several talents while attending convent school; she learned how to play the piano beautifully, she learned about different countries and the lifestyle in various countries that ...

On December 15, 37, Nero was born – the future emperor of the Roman Empire. At the beginning of the reign, he reduced the fines and taxes, trying to fight corruption, was fond of poetry. But most of all, Nero became famous for his cruelty and unusual habits. After a fire in 64 in Rome, Emperor Nero put all the blame for what happened on Christians. He made a terrible persecution of the believers, torturing and murdering them. The methods of punishment included the crucifixion and stitching in the skins of animals. Besides all this, Nero loved “natural lighting”. He ordered ...

Riverside Theatre presents an epic illustration of a well and specifically designed arrangement meant to accommodate the diverse activities. The range of events of events from concerts conferences, speaker presentations, ceremonies and graduations clearly highlights the importance attached to the theatre itself. The stage management and the latest lighting effects bring the epic presentation that reveals a dramatic revelation of opportunities. The lighting effects feature an operable wall that perfectly attaches the audience to the centre stage. This helps in the staging techniques that help in the live performance. The artistic paintings on the stage help in the communicating of ...

Overview

The second half of summer, 1982. Five women were found strangled to death at the Green river banks in King County, Washington. During the investigation, the detectives found out that all they were prostitutes. They were working nearby. All the women were announced to be lost for some time already. This was only the beginning. In the next several years, more and more girls have been found along the Green River banks and in the woods nearby. If the first five murders made investigators suspect a serial killer in the King County, now there was no doubt about that. Sometimes ...

“Ode to a Nightingale,” and “Ode to a Grecian Urn”

No writing is truly complete without the use of figurative language; one element of this language is the symbol. In “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner; “Ode to a Nightingale,” and “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” by John Keats the authors use symbol to represent the theme of death. “A Rose for Emily” is Faulkner’s Gothic and most famous short story, Emily’s father died. Miss Emily realizes that everything she has is gone and in a rather uncanny way she reasons that if she could keep her father alive by pretending he is not dead, she could keep ...

Pablo was on born on 25 October 1881 in Spain to a painter who specialized in the painting of birds and other animals. His father was also a professor of arts which allowed Picasso to attend famous painting schools such as the Barcelona School of Fine Arts, his father also trained him early in life with the painting skills that he had. He would grow up to be a famous painter, sculptor, stage designer, ceramist and print designer who pioneered many painting styles such as cubism. He spent most of his life in Paris and Spain. - How women affected his ...

The Nuer women ensure the continuity of the Nuer pastoralists in East Africa. Not only as biological procreators but moreso in sustaining economic activities and social ties. This paper introduces the reader to the Nuer women by describing the Nuer people, discussing the marriage practices of this pastoralist group, and highlighting the role of married women in maintaining the clans’ survival.

The Nuer People

The Nuer is one of tribes referred to as the Pastoralists or cattle people of East Africa. They occupy parts of Sudan and Ethiopia. Cattle is most important to the Nuer as the quantity and quality of their ...

Portrayal of Women in D.T. Niane’s Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali Written by D.T Niane and translated by G. D. Pickett, 'Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali' recounts the epic story of Sundiata who was the founder of the Mali empire. This epic is an example of oral history narrated by griot poets aka djeli who before the invention of manuscript passed down the stories of kings and emperors from one generation to another. Sundiata who has been referred as the son of the Buffalo, the son of the lion, Mari-Djata, Sogolan Djata and by many ...

Picasso Weeping Woman As an Image of Suffering

Pablo Picasso’s remarkable oil on canvas painting Weeping Woman (1937) is both a personally and politically significant painting. It is among the series of weeping women paintings that were painted by Picasso in 1937. Picasso addressed the theme of depicting a woman holding a handkerchief to her teary face in numerous other works of art in different mediums (Léal 396), such as drawings, etchings and paintings, all of which were produced with the intention of standing as voiceless but visual witnesses to an inexpressible modern tragedy. In 1937, after the Spanish Civil War had come to an end, members of ...

Charles Manson was a serial killer who became an icon of crime. He founded a criminal gang known as the ‘family’, which he manipulated to kill the people he disliked. He was born by a single mother who gave him up to her relatives as she could not afford to take care of him. Manson grew up in several homes to become a drunkard and a criminal juvenile. He spent most of his teenage life in prison. He used to steal cars and commit others serious crimes like burglary in order to survive. He married his first wife when he was nineteen years in ...

“Good faith and truthful ignorance”: A case of transatlantic Bigamy

Good faith and truthful ignorance: a case of transatlantic bigamy is a biography of Francisco Noguerol, a Spanish conquistador who was little known during his time. In addition, the book resonates Spain’s attempt at protecting the rights of women in that Era. This is reflected by the Judiciary’s attempt at making sure that the women involved enjoyed their bequeathed rights. Each woman involved in the story had a right of retaining Francisco as their own spouse. This is derived from the fact that each had been legally married to Francesco; despite the incumbent circumstances. Generally, the book revolves around the Spanish ...

Edgar Allan Poe is known for the horror and thriller in his stories. He has got special skills to make readers keyed up by his writing, presentation and special style of arranging incidents of any story. The author in his highly acclaimed story, Liegia has presented a new style of horror and thrill before the readers. The author is somehow very attached to the Ligeia as he addresses the story as the best among rest of his stories. This paper discusses the author’s work and further talks about one of the main themes of the literary work by the ...

Leadership Style

Theodore Roosevelt the 26th US president who served for eight years; one term and a completion of President McKinley’s term. He is considered to be a reformer and one of the best presidents USA ever got. His leadership style is seen to be a blend of transformational and change leadership. According to Northhouse (2010) transformational leadership is that which results in changes in social systems and individuals. Transformational leadership is shown in Roosevelt’s actions when: he managed to rid the New York police department of corruption when he was a commissioner, he defeated the Spanish and drafted a letter called the ‘Round ...

Introduction and Thesis

‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning is a very famous and much-anthologized poem. It is a dramatic monologue written in rhyming iambic pentameters – that is to say the poet adopts the voice of someone else and speaks throughout as that person. It was first published in 1842 and is one of many dramatic monologues that Browning wrote. This poem is based on real historical events. Duke Alfonso II of Modena and Ferrara (1559 – 1597) married Lucrezia de Doctors and she died four years after the wedding in mysterious circumstances. This is the starting point for Browning’s poem. Victorian Britain was ...