Idealised/obsessive love Flashcards
P1: Gatsby’s love for Daisy is built on years of fantasy and memories of the past when they were young and their love for each other was innocent
C5: ‘Daisy tumbled short of his dreams…because of the colossal vitality of his illusions’
C6: ‘And forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath’
C6: ‘At his lips touch she blossomed for him like a flower’
P2: Myrtle sees her relationship with Tom as what she wanted with Wilson - when she feels like Tom is more committed to Daisy she becomes obsessed and jealous which consequently leads to her death
C2: ‘I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe’
C2: ‘Her artificial laugh’
C7: ‘Her eyes wide with jealous terror’
She walks in beauty - The speaker is fixated on the subjects beauty which is both inside and out - she is pure and tender which the idealised version of a woman
‘All that’s best of dark and light’
‘Where thoughts serenely sweet express how pure, how dear this dwelling place’
‘A heart whose love is innocent’
Sonnet 116 - Love is idealised to be a fixed entity and will outlast the constraints of the physical world
‘It is an ever fixed marke that looks on tempests and is never shaken’
‘But beares it out even to the edge of doome’
Love is the purest form of emotion
‘The marriage of true mindes’
La Belle Dame - Initially the speaker is infatuated by the woman and sees her as a pure and joyful being/ The speaker is so obsessed with her appearance he fails to see the danger behind her appearance - superficiality of live
Initially the speaker is infatuated by the woman and sees her as a pure and joyful being
‘Full beautiful - a faery’s child’
‘Her hair was long, her foot was light and her eyes were wild’
