The Lady and Her Five Suitors Analysis by Al Tayoba

The Lady and Her Five Suitors

(Mimetic Analysis)

The story is about the use of trickery for getting what you want and in the pursuit of having what you love. This is one of the Arabian Literary pieces that shows the real state of the world- full of oppressor and oppressed, users and used, and players and played. In mimetic approach of analyzing the story, it started with the presentation of the main character and her present situation. The truth about this story is really happening in real life. Trickery is one of the most common activities done by a lot of people in varied forms and situations. Some did this to escape from a situation and some to alleviate their living situation. The story was set in Persia, where a lady’s lover is put into jail. To help her lover out of the prison, she uses someone whom she thinks could help her. She lures her suitors using her charm and beauty. In real life, having pleasant or being beautiful was being used as a requirement for a lot of opportunities. There’s a lot of people who get what they want because they are simply beautiful. In the story where the five suitors obeyed the lady without them noticing it that they are being tricked, it is also very common today. People were using other people for their own benefits. People were lured by what their eyes can see and act out of impulse without thinking first. Generally, this is very common in our society, especially in the situation wherein one of the couple has to work outside the country; the one left home find it easy to engage in faithlessness by committing adultery.

Sick Rose Analysis by Al Tayoba

Analysis on the Poem “The Sick Rose” Using Formalism Approach

The Sick Rose

By William Blake

O Rose thou art sick.

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night

In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy:

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy

The poem lead us to view love in its complexity. It proves that love could not just make us but, it could sometimes break us. The poem was set in England in the year 1794, where the only job opportunity for women is to get into prostitution. It is about a man who infected his wife with a virus. The virus was from a prostitute whom the man had sex with. The wife was happened to bear a child.

Rose could mean a lot in literature. It could be a metaphor for love or a woman. The worm signifies a virus. It is small so it is aid to be “invisible”. Worm is destructive in nature. It could be that the worm is the “syphilis” which is a common disease during that time. “That flies in the night” means that the virus was incurred and infected the woman in the night where making love is commonly done. The man get the virus also at night with the prostitute. “Howling storm” and “bed of crimson joy” refers to the howling of sex and pleasure. It signifies a man fornicating the prostitute and his wife. “The secret love which thy love destroy” means that they lost the life of their child because of the virus that infected the fruit of their ROSE or LOVE.