Comparison of Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, and the impossible love of Ethan Frome and Mattie Silver. These two stories have more in common than you think. They both end sourly, as each resists a “happy ever after” ending. Both romances also seem to convey that love isn’t always what it seems. And both their characters set unrealistic expectations for the others. As these stories unfold side by side, they seemed unlikely qualifiers of similarities, at first. But as one reads more and more, each tale exists to try to give a message to all who read. In reality, life and love don’t often end happily ever after.

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While reading Roxanne Gay's essay “The trouble with Prince Charming or he who trespassed against us”; I learned that she had her own definition of the common fairy tale or at least what she thinks as one. “There is a man and a woman – who must overcome some obstacle to reach happily ever after.” Which is true in some cases, nevertheless depending on what side of the story you're reading you can make it out, happily ever after or not. They’re plenty of real tales that don’t end sure-enough happy. You probably know Disney’s The Little Mermaid, which side do you know? Not to ruin your childhood, however the original tale wasn’t remarkably happy after all. In Hans Christian Anderson's original story the prince marries someone else and the little mermaid throws herself into the water and turn to sea-foam. Not Disney’s tale of Ariel beats the wicked sea witch and swimming off to marry the wonderful prince. Instead of using a fairy tale that doesn’t end happy or an original she uses “fairytales”, twilight and 50 Shades of Grey that fall under her definition of a common fairy tale.

Cinderella is a childhood fairytale that we all love and remember. It is a tragedy that turns into love and happily ever after in the end. In contrast to this popular story, Anne Sexton's version of Cinderella is a dark and twisted version of the classic fairy tale. It takes on a whole new perspective and is fairly different from the childhood fairytale that most of society knows. The poem takes less of a focus on the happy ever after in Cinderella and makes it into vivid bloody and violent images. She retreats more toward the pain and neglect. The poem is not based off the Disney version of Cinderella, but rather original dark version by Brothers Grimm. Sexton uses a very sarcastic and

In the familiar more traditional version, Cinderella is a poor maid girl that, with the help of fairy godmother, gets a chance to meet prince charming. They fall in love, get married, and live happily ever after, and then what? What is a happily ever after? Is this even a realistic thought? In the dark comedic poem Cinderella, Anne Sexton forces the reader to examine this question. Utilizing literary devices such as tone, imagery, and style, Sexton encourages the reader to think about how silly and unlikely a fairy tale ending actually is.

The poems are inspired by the love that a man has for a woman and in many instances how the scenery reminds him of his love. The thirteenth tale depicts a man who was torn between whether or not he should write to his lover. The first poem shows the woman’s feelings when he did not hear from the man for a long time and shows her in a heartbroken tone (78-9). It also shows that the woman too has conflicting emotions about her partner as she strongly dislikes not hearing from him, yet she it would not be very appealing for him to write her either. The man writes a poem in response to her, and as it says he is distraught and rushed the poem. He says to her that her requests are difficult for him to take and that it would be hard for him to heal his wounds of love lost (79). This tale and the poems from it show that there is much more that can be incited than if it were just the narrative. Without the poems, the emotional impact in the tale would not be as strong since there would not be the voice of the woman and her feelings towards the man and the man’s response to her. There easily could be a description of their interaction, but it would not be as powerful since it would not display the voices of the lovers and their views of their relationship.

Cinderella is a fairy tale that has been around for a long time. Having made it through generations with Disney’s help, it became a prominent figure in literature, inspiring authors to follow in the story’s footsteps. Alice Munro’s Hateship, Friendship, Loveship, Courtship, Marriage is one of those stories. As a result, the motifs found in Cinderella are also easily found in Alice Munro’s short story. By taking using similar motifs as used in the story Cinderella, Alice Munro implemented the theme of luck in the story, which can also be found in the fairy tale. Throughout the narrative, the theme is proven using various motifs; the persecuted heroine, a magical helper, meeting and marrying the prince, the proof of identity and the moral of

Ideologies are meant to be shared and learned throughout a society to encourage the spread as well as competition of ideas. Through Anthem, Ayn Rand warned of the dangers of blindly and unquestionably following an ideology; the dangers to society that unexamined loyalty to a belief system cause to society are upholding oppressive and dehumanizing morals, decreased quality of life and the government taking advantage of their citizens

As a little kid, fairy tales were my favorite types of stories and movies. Stories that ended with a “happily ever after” always made me very happy. On the other hand, they have come to make me very upset, because most of the time they gave me unrealistic expectations for life at such a young age. In “Ashputtle” and “Cupid and Psyche” like many short stories, is a fairy tale that the end will reward good and punish evil in different ways.

Love conquers all, or at the very least, that’s what many romance novels want people to believe. A Secret Sorrow by Karen van der Zee, which tells the tale of Faye and her struggle to commit to Kai after an accident leaves her unable to reproduce, is a perfect example of this. “The Sorrowful Woman” by Gail Godwin, on the other hand, is a dark fairy tale about a woman whose life is only made worse by marriage and motherhood. At first glance, these stories may seem completely different. On further examination, A Secret Sorrow and “A Sorrowful Woman” share both similarities and differences in tone, theme, and gender roles that lead to the latter story being a much better piece of literature.

Siegfried Sassoon’s “They” and Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” depict disillusionment with religion justifying or romanticizing World War I. Both these poems express the authors’ frustrations that religion cannot justify the tragedies and consequences of the war. These frustrations are conveyed through tones of mocking and sarcasm, in addition to other methods. In “They” Sassoon creates a conversation between a Bishop and soldiers to express his frustration, while Owen uses sarcastic questions about rituals to express his. It is clear that both poems are disillusioned by religion justifying the war, however, they focus on the two different aspects of the church’s ignorance of incompetent clergy and empty rituals rather than commenting on religion and faith as a whole.

It starts with a fairy tale story, where all magical things happen and ends happily. The goodness is rewarded but the evil ones are punish. The closing of the story always ends with “and they live happily ever after,” and the main character becomes unhappy but eventually gains happiness at the end. The traditional Cinderella story figure is from “rags to riches.” It begins with a poor maid girl named Cinderella whose stepmother and stepsisters treated her unkindly, but because of the help of her fairy godmother, Cinderella found her Prince Charming. In Anne Sexton’s Cinderella story, the author made changes to the traditional fairy tale by adding her own tale. Throughout the poem, Sexton uses sarcasm to finish the tale initiating the

Fairytales are always black and white. The knight in shining armour is clear to spot, and the story always displays the villain in ways that invariably point to evil, however; this is not the case in reality. Loved ones can cause torment and misery, yet as dark and twisted as it is, letting go may not be an option because sometimes, pain manifests itself as butterflies in the stomach. In Jenna Blum’s Those Who Save Us, Anna Schlemmer is in a state of hopelessness, when Horst, a Nazi officer, comes into her life. Despite his violent and bestial nature, Horst saves Anna in her time of desperation, which prevents her from letting him go, and mentally destroys her. Similarly, In Scott F. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Daisy involuntarily marries

It shows how the girl is going to miss important parts of her childhood. Another poem concerned with sexual attraction is Andrew Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress

In the second poem, written in 1794, the story is a bit like the first and a bit not like it at all. It talks about a boy, maybe the same as the past poem, who cries for his parents. He then goes on to explain how because his life seems happy and jolly, they all think he’s fine, but he isn't.