Analysis Of Goodbye By Friar Lawrence

Romeo and Juliet, a Shakespeare play written about two star crossed lovers. The forbidden love between Romeo and Juliet resulted in a great tragedy. There is one question that is asked now; who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Friar Laurence is to blame Romeo and Juliet’s death. The Friar had good intentions, but sometimes the right decision is not always the best.

Contrast is the brick and mortar of this piece. Vowell utilizes this technique to draw on the vast political, ideological, differences that lie between her and her father. He is a gun-toting, NRA-subscribing, Reagan-loving Republican, while she is an art-focused, peace-admiring, music-loving Democrat. The vast expanse that separates the two could not be more jarring, as she describes the home as “a house divided”, with the area between their two bastions of influence, the kitchen and the living room, as a “DMZ” (7). She emphasizes the stark difference between the two with ironic humor when speaking about their one “ agreement”, the constitution, while emphasizing a continued disconnect in values, “I’m partial to the First Amendment, while

With the stranger dead, the people of the community help themselves to his cheques. Money begins to exchange hands as goods are bought and deals are made. The progress of economic development comes to the village. No one is afraid to dig up the money that they have saved because as soon as the cheques are cashed there will be no worries, and the town can continue to "prosper." But as every man meditates on their "two of these excellent billets," they begin to feel that "they were too rich to speak to each other" (71, 72). Conflict grows between one-time friends as they argue over what is to be bought and sold. Greed has come to town with the artist and his witch's money.

Many believe that Friar Lawrence is innocent because he had good intentions and did what he deemed necessary when helping Romeo and Juliet, however, good intentions do not always correspond to appropriate actions. Friar assists the lovers on numerous occasions and even marries them. Friar states after agreeing to marry Romeo and Juliet, “For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households’ rancor to pure love” (Shakespeare.II.iii.91-92). The phrase “alliance may so happy prove” means this marriage could have a good outcome. Friar hopes that the marriage will be a happy one and will be a beneficial union. The phrase “turn your households’ rancor to pure love” implies that Friar wants to convert the two families’ hatred of each other into a loving relationship.

We start out in Lake Windsor, the housing development where Paul and his family live. Their neighborhood is nestled in among a bunch of other ritzy developments with fancy-sounding names, like the Manors of Coventry, and the Villas at Versailles. Lake Windsor even has its own middle and high school, so, for the first part of the book, the Fisher family's lives revolve around that one area of town. Mrs. Fisher heads up their Home Owner Association Architectural Committee, Erik joins his school's football team, and even Paul makes friends in their neighborhood.

In “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence, an immense amount of attention is poured towards the focus of money. Today, who someone is depends drastically upon the amount of money they have. Sadly, money determines who you are before you even realize it. The same idea is developed into this story. An essay says, “While his father is a hard worker, he does not bring in enough money to satisfy the expensive tastes of the latter’s wife. Because of this, Paul’s mother resents her husband and makes it clear that she wants more monetary benefits out of life” (Pierce). Although she may not realize it, Paul’s mother is beginning to demand so much of her husband that it not only wears out her husband, but continually rubs off onto Paul. Paul becomes so bothered by the thought that his family has little to none money, and his only desire is to change that feeling for his family. He begins to realize that he wants nothing but money for his family so they can experience life in such a way that they are able to enjoy what they have and obtain more. As Paul is growing up amid such an issue, he begins to realize that no matter what he is doing, he is constantly being reminded that his family is destitute. “He was looking so extraordinarily foolish for no other reason but that he heard the secret whisper all over the house: “There must be more money” (Page 1248). Given the circumstances, everything that Paul did reminded him subtly about the family issue. Because of

Part II) The writer's aim is to inform the unknowing of how her old town, full of history and memories, was torn down for a golf course. I think she's trying to say that people are becoming too obsessed with material things. The writer is trying to get across that may be destroying a place with so many memories of so many individuals and families is not a good

The author depicts a common demon the human race faces that is greed and society's need for more possessions and money. This is projected throughout the story showing that Paul's family enjoyed living in style yet always lived beyond their means. There is never enough money, causing a great deal of anxiety in the house (Lawrence 221). The family believes that they are

To begin, I will be discussing money, one of the many themes in “The Living is Easy” by Dorothy West. This book is about a woman named Cleo, who grew up in an upper-class African American family. Cleo was always into the business world ever since she was a little girl. She moved to Boston and married Bart Judson also known as “The black banana king.” They have one daughter named Judy. Bart owned business that he transported bananas. He was a very productive and wealthy man, but when things took a turn for the worst, he had lost all his money leaving Cleo with the remains of it. Their marriage was solely based on money, while Cleo sisters, Charity, Lily, and Serena had it differently. They loved their husbands, so much that money was not a necessary object, and no money was involved. The sisters had visited Cleo without their spouses for most of the book making their mindsets change as well as their attitudes towards their husbands. This mindset has shown the many problems with Bart Judson’s money and revealed how careless the characters can be.

In the novella the most important tone is disappointment. In August the author introduces the Miller’s Robert, Elizabeth, and their young son Thomas. They live on their 60 beautiful Pennsylvania acres. They grow their own food, spin their own wool, and make their own cloth. Robert is an excellent craftsman, he make all their furniture with old tools. They live on a mere $348.67 a year and barter for anything else they may need. The Miller’s live very modestly with no electricity and, of course, no phone or television; they have no car and walk everywhere. When Robert left the army he purchased the farm and had a very specific way of life in mind. Liz and Tommy seem to be full partners in Bob’s endeavors but this quickly changes. When the time comes to slaughter the lambs seven year old Tommy decides he wants no part of it. Bob becomes impatient and gets angry with Tommy. This has always been a normal way of life for Tommy and his father doesn 't

Lawrence demonstrates his stubborn view of a fading society through Hester’s selective choosing of detrimental responsibilities with loving and fostering her children. Everybody stated that “she was such a good mother”, yet her superficial and materialistic love is seen by everybody (Lawrence 436). During Christmas rather than being a stereotypical mother, singing carols, baking cookies, and having Christmas dinner. Lawrence resonates to the reader that her love is only skin-deep. She forced her object-oriented views onto her children by only giving them “expensive and splendid toys [that] filled the nursery” (Lawrence 436). She ignorantly decided to give her children toys to try fulfil them with materialistic love rather than what love truly is. Similarly, Paul senselessly learned that love should be this way from his mother. This signifies the lack of guidance and parenting during Paul’s childhood. Hester expressed to Paul that “luck causes you to have money”, and forced Paul to continue her own unsuccessful search for luck (Lawrence 437). In other words, rather than teaching Paul that luck comes naturally and not forcefully, she allowed him to ride himself to ‘insanity’ in search for a solution to her careless love. Once again the shortage of Hester’s parental guidance caused Paul to be mislead by her own actions. After he won his first race, Paul wanted to try to gain her love, because his first try did not fill her heart with materialistic money. The

Clybourne Park, a neighborhood full of all whites. That was until the Younger family changed that. The Youngers always lived in a two bedroom apartment, which is small being that there are 5 members of the family. They have always thought that all life held for them was that apartment and the crappy jobs they have, they never expected to own their own house. That was until papa died and mama (Lena) received his life insurance check, a check that was worth 10,000. Lena then made the decision to buy them a house located in Clybourne Park. Moving into this house is going to be a good thing, especially for Travis, because it will give the family more space, they will receive happiness, and it will help them make their dreams come true.

“All history and all mythology put into service of gluttony”(Baudelaire 2). When you look at the flip side, the poor family doesn’t see the greed or the selfishness because they are the ones looking from the outside in. From the outside point of view all you see is the light, which to them is the ideal community. The poor family thinks it is wonderful and perfect inside the cafe- they think life as a rich man or woman is the path to happiness, but they cannot see through the luster. Physically they see all the lights and extravaganzas, but they don’t actually know them. They are left with an observation, and individually they make an analysis on how great their lives must be. The problem is that they do not know those in the cafe personally, they only know what they see. The Father and two sons can observe the cafe and those inside, and vice versa but they can only see one’s luster and cannot understand each other’s deeper meanings.

In the story, the mother is described as poor, and in search of wealth. “Is luck money, mother?" he asked, rather fearfully. “No, Paul. Not quite. It's what causes you to have money." (2) Paul does not understand that money is not luck, so he asks his mother what it is. His mother then explains to him that luck causes you to have money. This is ironic because in reality luck does not cause you to have money all the time, it only occurs some of the time, and in this case luck causes Paul’s death. Another example of wealth leading to greed, "There must be more money! There must be more money!" (1) This quote shows the current situation of the mother’s family. Money is the reason Paul rocks his Rocking Horse for as long as he does. Money is the main reason Paul dies and the mother continues to force the fact that they need money. Paul’s mother believes the main reason her family is not amazing is due to the lack of money, so she stresses the fact that they need more of it. This idea is wrong and D.H Lawrence makes it clear throughout the short story. The final example of wealth leading to problems with greed is when the narrator says, “The house had been “whispering” worse than ever lately, and even in spite of his luck, Paul could not bear up against it. He was very worried about the effect of the birthday letter, telling his mother about the thousand pounds.” (8-9) Even with Pal’s newly

At the story’s unconventional beginning, a seemingly picture-perfect family is living in what seems to be a beautiful house in a rich suburb