Aspect of Human Experience: Love
Team B:
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Aspect of Human Experience: Love
Introduction
The human experience chosen by this team is the experience of love. There are many forms of love and many different ways literary authors bring readers to experience love through their works of art. To demonstrate this experience of love throughout the different types of literary forms, the team chose to compare Chekhov’s Misery, Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Langston’s Salvation, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Through this comparison, the team will demonstrate how authors bring readers to understand and experience love through their use of literary devices and style of writing.
Misery
Chekhov’s use of literary devices Anton Chekhov’s short story, Misery, had literary devices to show the love Iona, the protagonist, had for his deceased son. Chekhov displays imagery of the unconditional love a parent has for their children. Throughout the story, Iona was searching for someone he can confide to about his loss. Iona, a sledge-driver in Russia, encountered five people during his route but was unsuccessful in venting his sorrows. He loved his son so much he was willing to talk to strangers about it. Foreshadowing was a device used in Misery as well. The story began and ended with Iona and his mare. In the beginning of the story, Iona and his mare sat in the snow while waiting for customers. Iona searched for strangers to talk to but in the end, it was his mare he confided to. What Iona yearned for was in front of him the whole time. Chekhov displayed the love Iona and his mare had when the mare munched, listened, and breathed on Iona’s hands, (Barnet, Burto, & Cain, 2014). In the end, Iona expressed his grief to an animal that truly cared for him.
How authors & readers create meaning from the text During Anton Chekhov’s time (1860-1904),