ENGLISH AND LITERATURE
Love
Song: Lonely
Artist: Akon
Lyrics
Never thought that I'd be alone (be alone).
I didn't think you'd be gone this long (gone so long).
I just want you to call my phone.
So, stop playing, girl, and come on home (come on home).
In the lyrics, the speaker Akon indicates that although they have strong emotions for each other, the connections, and relationships they have had been detached completely. The speaker realizes that the kind of love and affection he had for her wife was retrospective.
In the book The Handmaid’s Tale, we see that love is something which is more remembered that it is practiced. Even when it is illustrated that the characters possess feelings for one another, they end up fighting them off. This is due to the fact that strong feelings are dangerous because it results into heartbreaks. From the past, there is nothing to hold onto. This can be from this quote “What I feel towards them is blankness. What I feel is that I must not feel. What I feel is partly relief, because none of these men is Luke. Luke wasn't a doctor. Isn't. (Atwood 25). In this situation, the complex emotions of the narrator mainly stems from the relief she felt that was no conclusive evidence that the guy she used to love had died that day.
Marriage
Song: "(How Could You) Bring Him Home"
Artist: Eamon
Lyrics
I never thought that I’d do something like that
When I saw you two, it hit me like a heart attack
(oh no)
How could you let somebody into (our door)
How could you bring him home
I never thought I’d loose my temper like that
now it's a fucked up situation, he ain’t coming back
(oh no)
In these lyrics, Eamon presents the concept of love from the perspectives of the husbands and wives and their society. Even though marriage is perceived as being sacred, standard problems do arise between husbands and their wives. This entails things like sexual desires, communication, and understandings. This therefore indicates that the manner in which marriage has been separated from love weakens the foundation of marriage.
The society illustrated in the book The Handmaid’s Tale, privileges and honors 1st marriage excessively. Second wives with children are considered to have the opportunity of becoming Handmaids. Regardless of that, we see that when marriage is honored officially, it is taken as being a joke with wives and husbands always separated with their community. “As for my husband, she said, he's just that. My husband. I want that to be perfectly clear. Till death do us part. It's final” (Atwood 36). In this situation, Serena Joy depends on the passage from the marriage function to remind inform the narrator the manner in which she must be in the position to enter into a relationship with the commander.
Human trust
Song: Bed of Lies
Artist: Nicki Minaj Featuring Skylar Grey
Lyrics
[Hook: Skylar Grey]
Do you ever think of me when you lie?
Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies
And I knew better than to look in your eyes
They only pretend you would be mine
In the lyrics, the speaker Skylar Grey highlights the extent in which it difficult to trust each other. Both the lovers are involved in betrayal because of their love is based on lies hence deteriorating their trust.
In the book, The Handmaid’s Tale, the capacity of trusting each other is regarded as important component of love. We see that in totalitarian regime, those individuals who are in power work purposely to undermine that trust. “This woman has been my partner for two weeks. I don't know what happened to the one before. On a certain day she simply wasn't there anymore, and this one was there in her place. It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know. Anyway there wouldn't be an answer.” (Atwood 8). In this case, Ofglen tries to point out the problem of disconnect between people in their community. This is what in return results to distrust in the society.
Work cited
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. , 2011. Internet resource.
