Love Through the Ages - Power and Control over Love

Power over sexuality (Poetry)

"And your quaint Honour turn to dust; / And into ashes all my Lust. / The Graves a fine and private place, / But none I think do there embrace."

"looked at me as she did love, / And made sweet moan. / I set her on my pacing stead... And sure in language strange she said - / 'I love thee true'...I shut her wild wild eyes / With kisses four."

Empowerment of lovers (Poetry)

"let us sport us while we may; / And now, like am'rous birds of prey... And tear our Pleasures with rough strife"

"she lulled me asleep... pale kings and princes too, / Pale warriors, death pale... starved lips in the gloam, / With horrid warning gaped wide"

Weakening of lovers (Poetry)

"written her faier neck rounde abowte: / 'Noli me tangere for Cesars I ame / And Wylde for to hold though I seme tame.'"

"I set her on my pacing stead... And sure in language strange she said - / 'I love thee true'...I shut her wild wild eyes / With kisses four."

Power over sexuality (Gatsby)

"I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe... Tom's the first sweetie she ever had."

"Making a short, deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand."

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money."

Marxist - status and wealth fascilliatate the destruction / assult of the proletariat.

Empowerment of lovers (Gatsby)

"had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired"

"Her voice is full of money... High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl."

"Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor"

American Dream - 1931, "all men are created equal"

Weakening of lovers (Gatsby)

"her life violently extinguished... mingled her thick dark blood with the dust... giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long."

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money."

"I want Myrtle Wilson's breast ripped off - it's exactly the thing, I think" - F. Scott Fitzgerald, c.