Comparing The Battle With Love In Elizabeth Bowen's Demon Lover

The Demon Lover is a story of a woman, Kathleen, who after coming home, finds a ghostly letter on her table. This letter gave her a ghastly reminder of a man she had promised to marry before he tragically died in World War I. The couple had agreed to meet again after all these years and, the letter promises that the meeting they had agreed to all those years ago, was still on. Suddenly she got a horrendous feeling that a presence was with her and began to recollect the life she had lived; she remembered marrying her new husband and having two children children with him. After this visit to her house, Kathleen finally left. After checking the time, she noticed it was the time that the mysterious letter had mentioned their

In “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character Janie Crawford experiences many different kinds of love. Throughout her childhood, Janie experienced protective love from her grandmother. When Janie reached the ripe age of 16, her grandmother wanted her to get married. Because of this, she ended up marrying her first husband, Logan Killicks. Just like she did when she was with her grandmother, Janie was the receiver of protective love from her husband. The next type of love she experienced was possessive love from Jody Starks, her second husband. Joe was a possessive man who wanted Janie to keep quiet and just work the store. His possessiveness is especially shown when he makes Janie cover her hair when he notices other men of the town admire it. The last form of love that she experiences was true love with Vergible “Tea Cake” Woods. With Tea Cake, Janie felt like an equal and was truly happy. So yes, while it may have taken longer than she expected, she eventually experienced the true love she was yearning for. And when it ended, she was a changed woman. Janie’s time with Tea Cake gave her something none of her other marriages gave her: true happiness and strength.

In the book The Opposite of Love, by Sarah Sheerger the main character's names were Rose Parsimmon and Chase Smith. Rose was adopted when she was 7 she didn’t remember much about her real mom but, she was a prostitute and was arrested. Rose hated Mr and Mrs Parsimmon her adoptive parents ever since she was adopted. Chases mom Linda worked a lot and he basically raised his little sister Daisy. Linda kicked Chase’s father out of the house when he was little because he was abusive. Rose and Chase met because their best friends were siblings. Rose was a very crazy girl who no one really got to know. Chase kept a lot about him to himself and had never told anyone about his father. The two of them created a bond and were attracted to each other.

In my first poem, “Love and All it’s Flaws” I changed a few words at the start of the poem to make it more clear. Things like a flower slowly blooming, and a mind that’s so hard to embed. By a slow blooming flower I meant that he walked slowly but instead I found a specific flower that actually grows slowly. For the mind that’s so hard to embed, I meant he’s very stubborn, so I ended up changing it to a mind that’s hard to set. I also changed the word vein, because when I first wrote the poem I imagined it had a different meaning. I also changed my last two lines to tie the whole poem together.

I’ve always had mixed feelings when it came to films about love. For me, the idea of love can be presented is such a basic way it becomes obvious to what will happen next. Essentially, I get bored with the same old generic portrayal on what love should look like or be. Spike Jonze’s Her and Arthur Hiller’s Love Story was such a refreshing take on how love can come in all forms and doesn’t need to follow a sort of guideline, like every other love film seems to be. It was interesting to view the contrast in the two films. Though very different, there were many aspects to the plot and the characters Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) and Oliver (Ryan O’Neal) that were notably similar.

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As the night gets longer, the days get shorter. There were cold dark scary times when one girl climbed the tallest mountain and couldn't see the cracked open door waiting for a humble soul. Then there's the other girl who was worn out and torn up into broken pieces. Lastly, the girl who kept to herself, who shared no tears, no mercy, not even for herself, because she felt she had nothing else left. The closed eyes of warm thoughts of a fading small loving imagine kept the mother figure alive and made the other two women feel revived. Something to look forward for, much more. Hit after hit, just to be tricked and teased by the insecure heartless. Until finally a breakthrough. A breath of fresh air out of a suffocating Hell Cell. Their first

Dominic has spent his entire life fighting and hiding. After leaving the Marine Corps, he is embarking on a new chapter in his life, cutting all ties to the man he was before. He’s in a new place, with a new name. But some ugly truths from his past, truths he thought were long buried will come back, and these truths are refusing to be

The Demon Lover, explains a love story from the past that comes back to the protagonist, Mrs. Drover, which happens to be a fictional character based on the author, Elizabeth Bowen's own life experience. As the piece describes in detail parts leading up until the shift, when the letter is found, the reader is left predicting the anonymous person who left it. It is unknown from the shift as to what will occur, but the reader can assume something may not be good based on the title and the letter itself that was on the table of her abandoned house. In The Demon Lover, Bowen wrote about a woman who is haunted by her ex-fiancé, who is a demon that wants revenge for the woman's forgotten love for him, which uses modern language rather than conventional

The play, Romeo & Juliet, originally written by Shakespeare, allowed Desert Hot Springs High School to reenact this infamous piece of literature. In this replica of Romeo and Juliet, those who primarily directed the play were Amber Stella (student director) and Ryan Landman (lead director). The major theme is love. Love can overcome any obstacle obstructing the natural order, even if the solution to that may be mutual death; Love prevails over any hindrance. I had the opportunity to behold the play on its opening night, Thursday October .

Throughout the Elizabethan Era William Shakespeare composed numerous poems, sonnets, and plays. Shakespeare is credited for writing one hundred and fifty-four sonnets. Theses sonnets that he compiled had multiple themes; consisting of love, procreation, greed, selfishness, and even death. During his allotted time as an author he wrote two sonnets titled “Sonnet XXII” and “Sonnet XXIII”.

Throughout the story, Mrs. Drover talks a lot of her ex-fiance not being kind to her. The first time is when she is reminiscing on a flashback of when they were saying their goodbyes to one another. Mrs.Drover explains how “without very much kindness, and painfully” her ex-fiance would press her hand “onto one of the breast buttons of his uniform” (Bowen 1408). Him doing this did not make her want him to stay, but “only wish him already gone” (Bowen 1408). Although Mrs. Drover loved her ex-fiance, she knew that he was not normal and she did not like the way he hurt her. If he really loved her and was not the Devil, why would he do things to hurt her? Mrs. Drover explains that “she imagined spectral glitters in the place of his eyes” after being looked at for so long (Bowen 1408). This also shows that his normal eyes were mean like the Devil’s so she had to imagine something nice in place of them. If Mrs.

My guide, Virgil, and I passed through the gates of Purgatory, straight to perverted love.

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” These words of H.Jackson Brown, Jr. perfectly describe the meaning of love. Love is not just about showing affection towards one another, love is more than that. Love is about caring for one, put others first before themselves, a feeling that motivates one to make the most out of their lives. To point out, the theme of love has been around for ages from movies, to book, and music. Romantic love geners are common, however love songs about best friends are rare. Love does not have to be for someone who one has intimacy with. In particular, the song, “Redial”, by Laura Marano, describes the meaning of loving her best friend by stating the times where she had her best

The Demon Lover is a short story which contained a vast theme. The two main themes: horror and romance mingled together, accompanying with the extraordinary use of descriptive languages to describe the ambiance, thus creating suspense. Through the portrayal of the “steamy, showery sky” and the internal environment of the old and vacant house, the author tried to evoke queerness and eerie to both the readers and the main character, Mrs. Drover. With the uses of pictorial words, Elizabeth successfully created suspense and this suspense kept enlarging like a snow ball as the story goes on. This suspension reached the summit when Mrs. Drover suspected that someone was also in this house, looking at her.