Category: Desire

The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter is a criticism of moralistic and pious ideologies surrounding sexuality and its repression expressed through the liminality of Little Red Ridding Hood, who, throughout the story, shifts from being the innocent, naïve girl to becoming the woman society fears the most- a powerful, enchanting, she-devil, witch. At the…

Tennessee Williams was a profound author of the play, A Streetcar Named Desire. He portrayed a realistic outlook on the standard New Orleans life, in which both gender roles and social expectations defined the way world functions. With the everchanging roles that one has, the position one is in will never be the same as…

Desire simply means a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment. Desire simply means want. A strong feeling to possess something or having the yearning for some event to happen is desire. Our desires show our priorities which shape up the choices we make. Our actions should be based on the…

Understanding the distinction between affection versus desire can be very dubious. Particularly on the grounds that desire is the normal and first period of most sentimental connections and can last as long as two years (at any rate that is the thing that the specialists need to state). It’s the principal period of ‘affection’ however…

Introduction to Desire in ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Great Expectations’ The obsessive nature of desire is explored within both The Great Gatsby and Great Expectations with Fitzgerald and Dickens portraying this desire through: wealth, love and also self-advancement, within their novels. These concepts are devised throughout both novels in different ways. In The Great Gatsby,…

In Molly Peacocks poem Desire she talks about the desire the human body has. She mentions many aspects of desire by using metaphors and personification. Desire is one of those things that ends up getting everyone into trouble at one point. This poem explains the reason why, it is uncontrollable and instinctual. It comes and…

He appears to me, that one, equal to the gods the man who, facing you, is seated and, up close, that sweet voice of yours he listens to Lacking the firm consensus present in the poem, Sapphos Fragment 31 is one of the most complex poems to interpret. The narrator watches a man, seated across…

As we move through our daily lives, we experience a range of emotions. Emotions are often labelled as feelings, they represent a subjective, affective state that is comparatively strong and that happens in response to what we encounter. Motivation is viewed as something that stimulates an individual to perform and act in a certain way…