In a Rose for Emily the theme of love tells us that love is an important emotion that is a basic need of each individual and it is important for each person to feel and know that they are loved. Love played was an important part of the plot of the story. The author used a narrator to dictate in first person the troubles of Miss Emily. The narrator told the story with the tone of sympathy. The narrator told how Miss Emily wanted to be loved more than anything. The narrator told how the lack of love drove her to insanity and motivated her to kill her lover so that he would stay a part of her life. The author used the foreshadowing of her father’s death to explain her motivation for killing and preserving Homer�

The emotion of love gave the characters a sense of contentment. Both Shakespeare and Linda Loman were content and were genuinely in love with the inner beauty of their loved one. Both Emily and Willy were looking for contentment. Just like Miss Emily, Willy felt the basic need of being loved. When Willy was traveling alone he became lonely and wanted to feel loved. This basic need of love led to his affair with the “other woman.”

In the poem “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,” by William Shakespeare, the theme tells us that genuine love is an attraction to another’s inner beauty. Shakespeare was very honest in his description of his mistress; however at the beginning of the sonnet the reader is mislead by Shakespeare. The reader is lead to believe that he is not attracted to her when he points imperfections such as, her breath reeks, and “that music hath a far more pleasing sound:” then the sound of her voice. At the end of the sonnet the reader finds that they have been mislead because he really is attracted his mistress. He is attracted to her inner beauty. He says that in spite of all these things, “I love to hear her speak… and yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare.”

. Miller changed the tone of the play by switching to different time periods. Miller shifts back and forth between different time periods. When he is in the present the mood is serious and gloomy. When he shifts to the past the mood is cheerful and optimistic. This gives the reader the idea that Willy would rather live in the past. Both Shakespeare and Miller used

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