The futility of love Flashcards

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The authors portray love as something that goes hand in hand with loss, ultimately making love seem futile and pointless as it only causes harm.
TGG-
1) “you can’t repeat the past? why of course you can!”
2) “but it was all going too fast … he had lost that part of it … forever”
3) “To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size”. (The eggs)
TS-
1) “That fond impossibility”
2) “I must search the black and fair”
3) “And rob thee of a new embrace”

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The pursuit of love can be portrayed as futile due to the difference in social class which makes it an impossible task.
TGG-
1) “Certainly not for a common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he’d put on her finger”
2) “Took her because he had no real right to touch her hand”
3) ‘“They’re such beautiful shirts” she sobbed’
WSLTH-
1) “And graven with Diamondes in letters plain”
2) “Noli me tangere for Ceasars I ame”
“I ame of them that farthest cometh behinde”

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The patriarchal values that are used to control women express the futility of love, and favor short term relationships.
TGG-
1) “Tom’s got some women in New York”
2) “the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door.” (symbolism of her cutting off a potentially happy marriage for Daisy and Tom)
3) “The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I had made a mistake”
TS-
1) “And t’was last night I swore to thee”
2) “Skillful mineralists”
3) “I must all the other beauties wrong”

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