Loss, Abandonment And Recovery Essays - Romanticism, Dream

Loss, Abandonment And Recovery Loss/ Abandonment and Recovery In choosing on how to write this essay I chose to work with dealing on loss and recovery. Loss, abandonment, recovery, and creation are all feelings human beings have had to deal with throughout the history of life and even more so in our readings the characters take it to a whole different level. There were quite a few readings weve perused through this semester that dealt with topics such as loss and abandonment or recovery. Narcissus was all splattered with a sensed of loss and abandonment and even recovery. How more tragic abandonment could take place when the person you fall deeply in need for disregards your every notion and rejects your offer. Narcissus thrust echo away from himself because she didnt come close in beauty to himself and to the expectations he had set forth for himself. Further yet how more tragic and incident of recovery could have taken place when narcissus discovers himself in a mirror resembling pond. Finding the most beautiful being he had ever seen but yet not being able to embrace it, hug it, kiss it. I could even say that Narcissus experienced quite a sense of abandonment when he realized the figure he saw didnt want him back, yet really not knowing that it was himself. Among the classic abandonment stories is the one that was written by Jean Jacques Rousseau. I find it quite horrific the way in which he was dealt with by his father in his early childhood. Agreeing with Rousseau on whether or not it was his fault that his mother died is all irrelevant. While thinking about it, could Rousseau really have felt any other way about it? His father constantly let him know how much his mother had been missed, Give her back to me, console me for her, fill the void she has left in my heart! Should I love you so if you were not more to me than a son? (Gunner p 278). Whats possibly the quite worst of all is what all of this left upon Rousseau as a kid. For he never really grew up emotionally normal due to the burden that was quite unfairly placed on him, and this in turn led to the many misfortunes that would fall him throughout his life. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein was filled with tales of loss and abandonment and creation and recovery. Creation and recovery start off the tale of Frankenstein but soon abandonment and loss soon beset the stage of fate. Upon the discovery of his newly found abandonment the creature by who Victor Frankenstein created really got to show us the effects of abandonment on a man-child. The story in my eyes has quite a few hidden subplots that are made to be discovered and interpreted differently by every different reader that crosses paths with this story. For I see in parts of this story I see Mary Shelley trying to tell us that creation falls upon the duty of no man and that only God shall be the all mighty maker of man. Thats one of my interpretations of the story. Again one can only conceive upon what it would be like to create such an atrocity, yet Victor gives us quite a description, he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing s uch as even Dante could not have conceived. So if by ranking all of the texts in accordance with having loss/abandonment and recovery/creation as pre-requisites for the order than it would be clear that this by far outranks any of the texts that we have read up to. Again thats my personal opinion, which is in itself questionable, but nonetheless I give it to you When I start to read the works of Sigmund Freud I get the overwhelming sense that he mainly deals with recovery and creation. The work I read of his in class was The Interpretation of Dreams. Ive read a few of Freuds other works on my own and I know doubt come to the conclusion that he is crazy with dealing with recovery and creation. In reading his incerpt Freud goes