Erotic desire

Question 1

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(TGG + TS)

Answer 1

Erotic desire in patriarchal men is used as an excuse to have power over women.
TGG-
1) “I want you to meet my girl”
2) “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchannan broke her nose with his open hand”
3) “He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick.”
TS-
1) “For treasure in un-plowed-up ground”
2) “I must all other Beauties wrong”
3) “Could I still dote upon thee face” (Modal verb)

Question 2

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(TGG + S116)

Answer 2

In TGG, erotic desire is used by those less fortunate in society to try to gain more status or wealth and acheive the American Dream. BUT in S116 love is presented as something that transcends earth and the tangibility of the human world.
TGG-
1) “She carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can”
2) “The green light”
3) “It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy - it increased her value in his eyes”
S116-
1) “Lov’s not Times foole”
2) “Let me not to the marriage of true mindes”
3) “to the edge of doome”

Question 3

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(TGG + TS)

Answer 3

Finally, both of the authors present how relationships built on erotic desire are not meant to last forever, but rather to be a short lived thing.
TGG-
1) “before he could move from his door the business was over”
2) “Once in a while I’ll go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I will always come back”
3) “the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door.”
TS-
1) “That fond impossibility” (suggesting the monogamy is naieve)
2) “Why should you swear I am foresworn, Since thine I vowed to be?” (Semantic field of a promise IRONIC)
3) “But I must search the black and fair”