Presentation of males in ARWAV, The Flea and To His Coy Mistress

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  • Authors presentation of males
    • A Room with a View
      • George Emerson presented as honest and believes in sexual equality
        • Mr Emerson "I taught him" he quavered, "to trust in love"
        • "Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand"
          • Shows that he was taught to respect women and believe in the power of love
            • Mr Emerson "I taught him" he quavered, "to trust in love"
            • Contrasts how society and initially Lucy believed that propriety and traditional customs was most important
              • "I do love you - surely in a better way than he does"
            • "I cannot live without you"
              • Shows George's thought resemble the modern man, he believes he'll go back into the 'dark' without her
                • The 'dark' is a metaphor for his depression, he may be suicidal
          • "I don't apologise...you may have noticed that i love you"
            • Unlike Lucy George is completely honest about his feelings towards her.
              • Shows little concern for social conventions
                • "That's why i'll speak out through all this muddle even now"
          • "This desire to govern a woman - it lies very deep, and men and woman must fight it together"
      • The Flea
        • Male presented as hopeless
          • "This cannot be said A sin, nor shame"
            • Sibilance creates a sinister effect, creates a sense of foreboding within the reader.
          • "Yet this enjoys before it woo"
            • Bites without courting
              • He wants to have sex with her, without being romantically involved
          • "Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence
            • Killed the flea and his hope of them sleeping together
        • Metaphor for a baby (mixing the blood of two people along with its own)
          • Male presented as hopeless
            • "This cannot be said A sin, nor shame"
              • Sibilance creates a sinister effect, creates a sense of foreboding within the reader.
            • "Yet this enjoys before it woo"
              • Bites without courting
                • He wants to have sex with her, without being romantically involved
            • "Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence
              • Killed the flea and his hope of them sleeping together
        • "Tis tru; then learn how false, fears be;Just so much honour, when thou yield'st to me, Will waste, as this flea's death took from thee."
          • Rhyming triplet is symbolic of the three involved throughout the poem
          • By killing the flea she's killed part of herself
          • She'll lose just as much honour by sleeping with him as she did when she killed the flea, therefore she should sleep with him
            • Even after having his hopes crushed, he's still trying to convince her to sleep with him
      • To His Coy Mistress
        • Shy or reluctant
        • Courtly lover
          • "Love you ten years before the Flood"
            • Implies that he loved her before time, they're destined to be together
          • "You Should if you please refuse Till the conversion of the Jews"
            • Never going to occur, she's never going to refuse him
          • "My Vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow."
            • Phallic imagery reinforces idea of them being courtly lovers
          • Change in tone
            • "Times winged Charriot hurrying near"
              • Link to Phaethon, time is catching up with them
            • "Thy Beauty shall no more be found"
              • Contrasts imagery in the last stanza, her beauty is temporary
            • "Worms shall try That long preserv'd Virginity"
              • Worms will crawl into her and will try to take her virginity
                • Possibly a hyperbole, saying that the worms will try to take her virginity but she's so coy even when she's dead they can't
                  • "Worms shall try That long preserv'd Virginity"
                    • Worms will crawl into her and will try to take her virginity
                      • Possibly a hyperbole, saying that the worms will try to take her virginity but she's so coy even when she's dead they can't
              • "Now let us sport us while we may"
                • Describes sex as a sport
                  • They should have sex whilst they're young and able
                    • "Now let us sport us while we may"
                      • Describes sex as a sport
                        • They should have sex whilst they're young and able

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