Romantic Ideals Challenges

Romantic Ideals Challenges

            The way of life continues to change day by day as humans continue to evolve. When comparing the past and present how people think and carry out their activities, the current is more appealing than the past. This change has been activated by several developments, primarily technological advancements. The United States is a powerful nation in the world, enjoys most of these changes. One of these significant changes has been experienced in the field of romance, where in the USA, this concept has changed from being based in terms of beauty and nature but have now advanced to other purposes. The idea has now been incorporated in almost all issues affecting the American people leading to realism movements. Literature has proved this change through three works of art, The Yellow Wallpaper, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Silas Lapham. The three are actually life stories of different people in different parts of the country. To make the stories successful, the characters happy and sorrowful moments are analyzed. Although the characters’ lives in these works of art emphasis are in their sad moments in life, they challenge the romantic principles.

To start with, The Yellow Paper story reflects on the author’s difficult moment in life. The American writer  Charlotte Perkins Gilman narrates her stressful story after she gave birth to her child. She is married by a supportive although misunderstanding husband John, who is a physician. The fact that the narrator is married is a sign of romance which is supported by how John diagnosis her with a condition and recommends her for rest, as he refrains her from working and writing. However, their romantic life is challenged by how she complains that her husband John belittles both her illness and her thoughts and concerns in general. Also, John dismisses the narrator’s feeling that there is something strange about the house, where they were on vacation. Her love is shown by how she wants to stay in a room on the ground floor with roses all over the window but John who insists that they share the renovated nursery on the top floor of the house objects this.

Additionally, she finds it difficult to cope with her new life, as she is even restricted from those things she adores most in life. In an attempt to end her boredom, she begins to describe the house, especially the yellow wallpaper, through writing, but she is forced to hide her journal to impress John. She additionally keeps on yearning for all the more animating organization and action, and she grumbles again about John’s disparaging, controlling ways. She makes reference to that she appreciates imagining individuals on the walkways around the house and that John constantly debilitated it. She is separated from everyone else more often than not and says that she has gotten practically attached to the backdrop, which really she loathed.

Further, the backdrop shows how sentiment has been tested. The storyteller is nauseated by the backdrop’s shading and example, depicting them with distinctive and frequently rough symbolism. At the point when she intrigued on the context expanded, she saw a picture looking like a lady stooping down and crawling behind the bars of a confine. The storyteller sees her shaking the bars around evening time and crawling around during the day when the lady can escape quickly. At one time she chomps and tore the paper to free the caught lady, whom she saw battling from inside the example.

She also started creeping the walls after realizing the trapped woman was her, making her husband faint.

On the other hand, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a story that narrates the life of a girl named Maggie, which shows how romance ideas have been challenged. Maggie was a sister to Tommie and Jimmie and a daughter of alcoholic parents. She fell in love with a smart gentleman, Pete, who at the beginning of the story had saved Jimmie in a battle with other boys. They began to date, which Maggie sees as a prime opportunity to get away from the terribleness that is her life in the tenement. Her mom and Jimmie were against this relationship as she is making the family look bad by spending all her time with Pete, who was a bartender. As a result, Jimmie beat up Pete in a bid to protect his family. Later, Pete leaves her over Nellie, leaving her desperate with nowhere to go as she had been rejected even at her home. The story then tells indirectly that Maggie became a prostitute and she was later found dead. All these scenarios challenge romance as her family and Pete earlier loved Maggie, but they all rejected her then, which destroyed her life.

Additionally, the lives surrounding the other characters have a bad influence on the concept of love. At the beginning of the story, Jimmie was leading a street fight against a troop of youngsters from another part of New York City. Pete saves Jimmie, but later in the story, he beats up Pete for falling in love with her sister.  Jimmie’s parents are drunkards, and his father threatens to beat him up for being involved in the fight. It was usual for Jimmie’s father to go to a bar and drink himself into oblivion while the mother stayed home and raged until she was also drunk, leaving the kids terrified. The mother’s drunkenness forced Maggie to run to Pete. There is also the painful part of love when Jimmie’s father and brother, Tommie, passes away. It is told in the story that Jimmie had seduced and abandoned a girl.  There is a scene with Pete in a bar, badly drunk and surrounded by women; he collapses on the floor and, in his turn, is abandoned by the manipulative Nellie. After discovering of Maggie’s death, her mother mourns and forgives her. In all these incidences, there is a need for love, but in all of them, the concept is misused or faces obstacles.

Moreover, The Rise of Silas Lapham story analyses the life of a family that is faced by many challenges, which actually love problems. The story begins the background of Sila Lapham, his family, her wife was Persis, and they had two daughters Irene and Penelope. Despite now having money, the Lapham know neither proper Boston social etiquette, what to buy nor how to act. Silas decides to build on the Beacon Street lot and hires an architect, who can manipulate Silas into spending ridiculous amounts of money. When Sila and Persis to visit the house, the meet Roger, Sila’s business ex-partner. It is noted that Silas used Rogers’ money to start up the business and then promptly dropped him and incidence that makes Persis angry. Earlier, their marriage had started to fall after their son died, and Silas went to war.

The most exciting love story begins when Tom is introduced into the family. Tom is introduced into the family business, a move Persis objects as he seemed in love with Irene. There is also another character who worked in Sila office, Zuerilla, the daughter of a man who saved Silas’ life in the army, whom he felt he owed a debt to. Persis is annoyed by how Sila spent money and his time in the Beacon house. Irene is so convinced that Tom is in love with him as there is enough evidence that he was about to marry her. Tom’s family even invites Sila’s family for dinner, in a bid to make Tom and Irene relationship a success. Penelope refuses to attend the dinner party as she felt it was meant to introduce her sister to her future husband. At the party, they talk on many issues among them an analysis of the sentimental novel Tears, Idle Tears. Likewise, when the ladies left, Lapham gets progressively increasingly alcoholic, enlightening the others concerning his war stories and afterwards about his paint. The following day, Lapham gives a cowering statement of regret to Tom for his conduct. Tom is shocked by how despicable Silas is, yet is thoughtful towards him.

The most testing romantic tale is among Tom and Penepole. After the gathering, Tom visits the Lapham, and examines with Penelope about the novel Tears, Idle Tears, a discussion that she missed at the evening gathering. She discloses to Tom that the adoration triangle, where the couple will not be as one for the outsider, is ridiculous and redundant. This is unexpected of her activities in her own affection triangle among Tom and Irene. Tom announces his affection for Penelope, to which she is stunned. She beseeches him to leave and not tell anybody what he has said. The following day, Penelope reveals to her Mother what has occurred. Persis is astonished that Tom adores Penelope and not Irene. Penelope is upset and attempts to make sense of an approach to overlook Tom and to spare Irene’s emotions. Persis chooses to trust in Silas and requests that he return home early. At the point when she asks Silas what to do, he recommends Penelope and Tom wed. Persis is exasperated that Silas can’t see the harm this will do to Irene, and blames him for being excessively worried about family associations. Silas visits Minister Sewell, who likewise recommends the pair wed.

Mrs Lapham tells Irene of Penelope’s pickle. Irene is aloof, and gives Penelope all the tokens she gathered to do with Tom, including the wood shaving. Irene chooses to visit a cultivating network with her cousins to process her misfortune. Tom visits Penelope and is shocked that everybody thought he adored Irene. He encourages her to acknowledge his sentiments, yet she won’t enable him to contact her. Om tells his folks that he cherishes Penelope. They are astonished, yet are happy to acknowledge Penelope, the more reasonable sister. Silas discovers that the cash he loaned Rogers was utilized to get some land with factories on it. Penelope finds her Father’s issues and plunks down with him one night to sift through the coordinations. Persis is rejected from this as Silas doesn’t need her to know his questions. She finds a rundown of instalments that Silas provides typically for ‘Wm. M’. She plans to give the paper to Silas, yet overlooks.

Silas goes to a choice that he can’t wrongly sell the plants at a significant expense. He closes down his paint production line, as expanding market rivalry implies he is defeated. Persis gets some information about the ‘Mrs M’ in the wake of finding another piece of paper with her name of it. However, Silas won’t disclose to her anything. At the workplace, Silas advises Tom to stop the business now. Tom offers him credit. However, Silas won’t. Zerrilla Dewey’s Mother comes in and requests lease cash. Silas makes her leave, however, later on, gives the money to Zerrilla. Persis thinks Zerrilla is ‘Mrs M’, Silas’ fancy woman, and defies Silas. He explains that who Zerrilla is, and why he gives her hand-outs. Silas gets a financial specialist’s offer, however, doesn’t acknowledge it as the factories are useless. Silas and his family move back to the homestead in Vermont. He manages the top-notch paint and offers different mines toward the West Virginia Company. Tom Corey gets down to business with them. Tom weds Penelope and goes to Mexico to take a shot at the painting showcase.

,The whole story challenges all the concepts of romance through the characters and actions of the characters.

In conclusion, romance is part of human but is faced by many challenges resulting from human activities. The three stories, The Yellow Wallpaper, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Silas Lapham, clearly outlines these challenges by reviewing the life stories of different characters. In every story, the romance challenges are related to the suffering of the various characters.