Desire and lust Flashcards
P1: All the characters are driven by the desire to grow their wealth which can be done through marriage - desire is linked to ambition which is what characterises most of the characters
C6: ‘The yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world’
C7: ‘Her voice is full of money’/’high in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl’
P2: Lust however is what draws people to infidelity and dishonesty as it gives an exhilaration for people to pursue something outside of marriage
C2: ‘Tom’s the first sweetie she’s had’
C7: ‘Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself but I always come back to Daisy’
C7: ‘As he left the room again she got up and went over to Gatsby and pulled his face down kissing him on the mouth’
P3: Nick doesn’t feel any lust or desire/ Yet it could be argued that he does desire Jordan but does not want to admit this
C3: ‘Full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires’
C1: ‘She was a slender, small breasted girl with an erect carriage’
C8: ‘I want to see you’
The Flea - The speaker is trying to pressure his lover to have sex with him by trivialising the idea of sex
‘In this flea our two bloods mingled be’
‘This flea is you and I and this our marriage bed and marriage temple’
The Flea - There is also a sense of male power over women however the woman in the poem tries to combat this
‘Just so much honour when thou yield’st to me will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee’
To His Coy Mistress - The idea of carpe diem is used as a persuasive device for a virginal woman to lose her virginity due to a males desire
‘Worms shall try that long perserv’d virginity’
‘And into ashes all my lust’
‘Tear our pleasures with rough strife’
Nom Sum - The speaker is longing for a past love that is no longer there - he desires to go back to this time
‘Flung roses, roses riotously’
‘Hungry for the lips of my desire’
