Summing up theme 'Relationships' by Katrine Liv Grundtvig

Shakespeare in Love

2018-04-26 08:44:00 UTC

Summary:
William Shakespeare is a young, famous playwright. He is writing a play which was originally about a pirate's daughter, but after he met Viola De Lesseps, he changes the play so it's about two lovers from rival families. Their affair goes on for the entire time they practise the show. The play reflects their own romance. They eventually break it off, and Viola is going to marry lord Wessex. At the premiere, Viola plays the role of Juliet, and Shakespeare plays Romeo. Even though Viola leaves, Will continues to write plays about her.

Characters:
Will is very ambitious and selfsatisfied with his projects and plays, but he lacks empathy to put himself in other’s situation. He’s very frank and honest about what he wants, and doesn’t let himself be intimidated by other’s expectations.
Viola is passionate about theatre, and hopelessly romantic. She believes that love will not truly bloom on the stage unless a woman and a man play together. Underneath the innocent facade, she rebels against the discrimination of women by dressing up as a man and joining the play.

Themes:
Forbidden romance, eternal love, society norms, personal development, a woman's place in the beginning of the 17th century, the true nature of love, gender roles, love at first sight.

Connection to our theme, Relationships:
It's related to our theme, because it represents a relationship based on forbidden love. This also displays a relationship that doesn't last, because of the norms of society. It also plays with how a play can show the true nature of love.

Brokeback Mountain

2018-04-26 08:44:30 UTC

Ennis is the main character. he meets jack twist at a job they both have at brokeback mountain, the gay into some gay stuff and they enjoy it;), anyway the job ends and they part ways. they both marry other girls and can only meet each other very scaresly, jack is killed for " unkown" reason tihi, ennis is sad=( buhu.
ennis is very traumatised from the cultural view on homosexuality and an event in his childhood. Therefore he is also having a though time realising and accepting that he is gay himself. so he never jumps out and pursues the life he wants with jack.

themes incoming:

homosexuality
homophobia in the western society
unachiavable love

Call if you need me

2018-04-26 08:44:32 UTC

Presentation: “Call if you need me” is the story about Dan and Nancy, who is married. They both have other affairs, and they also both know about.

One summer their son is sent to his grandparents, so they see the opportunity to spend some time alone in a cabin. First everything is going fine, and plane to go fishing and other stuff like that. But one afternoon Nancy gets a breakdown and breaks up. Later that night Dan spots some houses outside their cabin, which they both get excited about it, so they have a great night and have sex. The day after Nancy takes the fight to her lover, and even though Dan came to say goodbye, he calls his own lover as the first thing when he comes back to the cabin.

The text is mostly chronological but it has some ashbacks. One ashback can be seen on page 24, 2/3 down the page. Dan talks about his trip with Susan three weeks before he went on a trip with Nancy.

Dan: Dan is married to Nancy. They have a son, Ricard. He doesn't seem concerned about his marriage and has an affair with Susan. They are both middle-aged.
Nancy: She is very despairingly, she mostly wants to go back to Richard. She is tall, long-legged woman with brown hair and eyes and a generous spirit (page 24 at the bottom). She is very organized (page 24 middle). She made a list of the tenants.

Connection to the main theme:

The text connects with the theme realtionship because the text's theme spins around maintaining love in a marriage. In the story, we see how love's passionate ame has burned out in Nancy and Dan's marriage, and they try x it for the son, who is the main reason why they stay together. They try xing it by creating some sort of perfect idealized illusion, but it does not work out for them, and they eventually realize that they are happier being apart

Sex and The City

2018-04-26 08:45:13 UTC

The Valentines Day Tale is a short story from the Tv-Show "Sex and the City"
In Sex and the City, the column writer Carrie Bradshaw writes about love and the dating life in New York. She uses the example of a british woman who moves to New York, starts dating a guy and even goes and looks at apartments together. All of a sudden the guy disappears and is out of her life for good. Bradshaw uses this example to describe how love works in New York, and how you can't rely on the guys that you are dating. She concludes, that if you want to find love, move away from New York. The english woman expects something different than the typical New Yorker, because she was raised in a different setting and society, so she has different values and expectations.
The text also discusses the age of "innocence" or the age where one has sex.

The moral of the valentines day tale is that you are responsible for your own misery or happiness.

Romeo and Juliet (act 2, scene 2)

2018-04-26 08:46:02 UTC

Romeo is in Juliets garden, while Juliet is on her balcony.
He speaks to himself about how stunning, wonderful and beautiful she is and how much he wants to be with her.

The text relates to the theme "Relationships" because it is about the greatest love story and deals with a relationship between two lovers how by society can not have each other. <3

Story of an hour - Kate Chopin

2018-04-26 08:46:35 UTC

Story of an hour is a story about a woman who gets told that her husband has died and than proceeds to lock herself in her room and isolate herself. At first she feels sad but than she realizes that she is a "Strong independent woman" but than as she exits the room, but than her husband is back and she gets tricked(AF).

The text handles the "single woman" issues that come with the passing away of ones husband, and the problems that it brings.
This story talks about a negative or a bad relationship.

A Red, Red Rose

jonx1033 — 2018-04-26 08:49:19 UTC

A poem to a loved one, telling (her) that the writer will love her till the end of time even though he has to travel away, possibly to war.

The theme of the poem is definitely love. The writer is using a lot of metaphors, like "while the sands o' life shall run" meaning while time passes.

Sonnet 18

2018-04-26 08:50:36 UTC

A sonnet is a small rhyme or poem which usually consists of 14 lines that all rhymes in a stricht scheme.

Sonnet 18 is a kind of description or a declaration of love to a special someone, or maybe even a something.
Shakespear/The speaker describes his beloved and compares her to a summer day. He then goes on to describe how everything fades away with time, except the beauty of the summer(his beloved). He explains this by saying that death won't be able to remove her existencee in the way of the lines(The poetry).

It connects to the relationsship theme because it shows how love can exist in the words and not just in the physical.

Alpha women beta men

2018-04-26 08:54:12 UTC

Alpha women beta men

Summary

The story is about two women talking about their relationships. Both women makes the most money in their relationship but one of them is divorced and the other one is fortunate with her relationship. The text discusses different views on the subject.

Characterization

Anna: Gets a higher salary than her husband and feels like her relationship is collapsing, so she’s thinking about getting divorced.

Betsy: Earns more than her husband and is okay with that, but she kind of makes excuses for her husband saying things like ‘he could do her job with his eyes closed’ and that he is much smarter than her.

Themes:

Gender roles and status in a modern day relationship, and how it’s affecting the relationship
Questions what true love is

Relation to the theme “Relationships”:

It is a story about a modern days relationships.