Love Through the Ages - Institutions of Love

Marriage and love (Poetry)

"Let me not to the marriage of true mindes / Admit impediments"

"Chapel was built... Where I used to play on the green. / And the gates of this chapel were shut / And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door"

Familial love (Poetry)

"Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; / Ae fareweel, an then forever!... the star of hope she leaves... nae chearful twinkle lights me"

"But tell of days in goodness spent, / A mind at peace with all below, / A heart whose love is innocent!"

Infidelity and loyalty in love (Poetry)

"love is not love / Which alters when it alteration findes, / Or bends with the remover to remove... ever fixed marke... star to every wandering barke"

"her warm heart beat, / Night-long within mine arms in love and sleep she lay, / Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth were sweet... Yea hungry for the lips of my desire: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion."

Religion and love (Poetry)

"more than married are... Our marriage bed, and marriage temple... cloistered in there living walls of jet."

"filled with graves / And tomb-stones where flowers should be, / And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, / And binding with briars my joys and desires."

Marriage and love (Gatsby)

"'Self-control!' repeated Tom incredulously... let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife... begin by sneering at family life and family institutions... and have intermarriage between black and white.' Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself... the last barrier of civilisation"

"vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby - nothing. He felt married to her, that was all..."

Marxist - proletariat is pushed down by upper-classes.

Familial love (Gatsby)

"'I suppose she talks, and - eats and everything.' 'Oh, yes.' She looks at me absently."

"parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents... his Platonic conception of himself."

"Bles-sed pre-cious... Come to your own mother that loves you... bles-sed pre-cious!... Stand up now, and say - How-de-do... your mother wanted to show you off... Do you think they're pretty?"

Dwindling moral codes.

Infidelity and loyalty in love (Gatsby)

"I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"By the next Autumn she was gay again, gay as ever...In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago... it was coming to pieces like snow."

"she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what she's doing... I love Daisy too... I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time."

"forever wed to his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God."

Feminist - double-standards, and Daisy had to move on.

Religion and love (Gatsby)

"want to kiss me anytime... just let me know... present a green card. I'm giving out green-"

"You always look so cool... She had told him that she loved him... You resemble the advertisement of the man... You know the advertisement of the man-'"

"Don't belong to any [church]... You may fool me, but you can't fool God!... he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg... God sees everything."

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year receded before us... tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning -"

Marxist - rich hold all the opportunities, not accessi