Ideas about marriage Flashcards
Paragraph 1
(TGG + S116)
Shakespeare
Marriage is presented to be an idealized, almost utopian thing, and yet the reality is that no marriage can be perfect.
TGG-
1) “He felt married to her”
2) “Took her because he had no real right to touch her hand”.(puts her on a pedestal)
3) “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
S116-
1) “Let me not the marriage of true mindes”
2) “That looks on tempests and is never shaken”
3) “To the edge of doome”
Paragraph 2
(TGG + TF)
John Donne
The concept of marriage is used as an object of transaction people must make in order to carry on with their lives.
TGG-
1) “The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I had made a mistake. He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in.
2) “‘They’re beautiful shirts’ she sobbed”
3) “She wanted her life shaped now, immediately—and the decision must be made by some force—of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality—that was close at hand.”
TF-
1) “Three lives in one flear spare.
2) “More than married are”.
3) “A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead, Yet this enjoys before it woo”
(She can’t lose her innocence because they’re already connected).
Paragraph 3
(TGG + S116)
Shakespeare
In ‘TGG’ Marriages are not based on loyalty and are presented as the guide on selfishness. However, in S116 the concept of marriage is used as a guide on how to love.
TGG-
1) “Tom’s got some woman up in New York”.
2) “She smiled slowly and, walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom”.
3) “No intention of being rumored into marriage” (Nick)
S116-
1) “Which alters when it alteration findes”.
2) “Remover to remove”
3) “It is the start to every wandering barke”