Appearance versus reality (Idealized love) Flashcards
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(TGG + AAI)
Thomas Hardy
In both texts, the relationship is made to seem as if they were ‘perfect’ for eachother, however that is not the reality as the people who are supposed to be in the relationship only end in disappointment.
TGG-
1) “It increased her value in his eyes”
2) “He felt married to her”
3) “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams–not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (‘dreams’
is romantic but ‘tumbled’
and ‘illusion’ suggests that it’s forced)
AAI-
1) “Ah, God, that bliss like theirs would flush our day!”
2) “The spheres above made them our ministers”
3) “The kiss their zeal foretold, and now deemed come, came not: within his hold love lingered numb”
Paragraph 2
(TGG + S(AFK))
Robert Burns
The inability to tell the difference between appearance (idealized love) and reality causes destruction and hurt.
1) “He couldn’t possibly leave Daisy until he knew what she was going to do’”
2) “They smashed things up and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they made”.
3) “A red thin circle in the water”
S(AFK)
1) “Ae fond kiss and then we sever”
2) “Had we never lov’d sae kindly, Had we never lov’d so blindly!”
3) “While the star of hope she leaves him”
4) Cyclical structure + refrain
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(TGG + AAI)
Thomas Hardy
The identity of how someone wants to appear is lost in both the texts due to the loss of love, which leaves the reality of who the person truly is behind.
TGG-
1) “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay”. (his personality is based on her).
2) “‘Jay Gatsby’ had broken against Tom’s hard malice”
3) “a yellow trolley raced”, “the track curved and now it was going away from the sun”
AAI-
1) “when we as strangers sought their catering care” (people treat him well and he’s idealized)
2) “And palsied unto death the pane-fly’s tune” (showing
3) “Why cast he on our port a bloom not ours?” (without this love he doesn’t know who he is)
