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
- Shows George's thought resemble the modern man, he believes he'll go back into the 'dark' without her
- Shows that he was taught to respect women and believe in the power of love
- "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"
- Shows little concern for social conventions
- Unlike Lucy George is completely honest about his feelings towards her.
- "This desire to govern a woman - it lies very deep, and men and woman must fight it together"
- George Emerson presented as honest and believes in sexual equality
- 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
- Bites without courting
- "Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence
- Killed the flea and his hope of them sleeping together
- "This cannot be said A sin, nor shame"
- 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
- Bites without courting
- "Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence
- Killed the flea and his hope of them sleeping together
- "This cannot be said A sin, nor shame"
- Male presented as hopeless
- "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
- Male presented as hopeless
- 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
- 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 will crawl into her and will try to take her virginity
- "Worms shall try That long preserv'd 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 will crawl into her and will try to take her virginity
- "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
- They should have sex whilst they're young and able
- Describes sex as a sport
- "Now let us sport us while we may"
- They should have sex whilst they're young and able
- Describes sex as a sport
- "Times winged Charriot hurrying near"
- "Love you ten years before the Flood"
- A Room with a View
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