"Was It a Dream?" is a XIX century tale written by Guy de Maupassant. In the story, the french writer exposes a particular tension between love, death and live after death. We follow the mourning of an unnamed man who spends part of his time over his lover's grave. Keeping this in mind, and taking into account your point of view and reading experience, please answer:
What happens between the idea of love that the man embodies at the beginning of the tale and the idea of love that can be conclude at the end of the story?
Which is the tension that the author creates between reality (the true one that appears at the end of the story) and death?
The idea of love that the tale had it was like a movie, the idea was like I saw that person and immediately become to the love of my life, but the story change all that meaning of love, and show us a really love story, with tears, and pain. 2. I think that the intension of the tale is like “open our eyes” and show us the really means of “love“ we think that love is like in Disney movies, and when we read the tale change our thoughts
The idea of love that this man had at the beginning was how love takes hold of a person, and as he gets to love, he missed his wife a lot after her death, after remembering her, it gave him pain, he felt sad. The day that he went to visit the cemenetrium, he completely changed his idea, when he saw the dead, writing the truth on their tombstones, and after seeing the evil that is in each person, when he saw his wife's, he realized how their death, and all his thinking changed.
The author describes imaginary scenarios, and knows how to include them and make them feel in reality, and makes believe that this was a fact, and as can be seen in the lives of the dead, what they do, but at the end of the day it ends up being a dream, and leaves intrigue.
1. I belief that his idea of love never changes in the story because he started saying that there only is one story of love, to be cheated by your loved one.
2. He is basicly living dead so the death reality is his own reality.
the love that is presented at the begining of the story is a love of one individual to another, pasonate and we can say sort of "natural" and the one at the end of the story is a obsessive love from someone who is getting crazy because of the death of his loved one
the author creates a scenariuo in where we get a description of places and events that make us think it is real, as we get deeper in the story we get descriptions of events that make us doubt if the author is really talking about reality and eventually we realize that it really wasnt reallity but just a dream
1: I think that in the stor, they never talk about sometin loving.
2: is that basically he is telling a story related, about how to incarnate in another person and basically they talk about deaths and reincarnations. Also looking at everyone eto as in ancient times, as I suppose they are talking about the nineteenth century that for me is old. :)
1. You can see that at the beginning the author describes how love can be so beautiful when you are with the right person and that you are going to have them for life, and at the end the sadness or pain of the death of that love is reflected and like finding her in the middle of the tombs seeing in a dark way under the earth.
2. It creates a feeling of tension when you feel lost when you see so many graves or despair of finding the one you are looking for, apart from feeling fear and how impressive it is to see so many people dead for so long, that in a situation like this it makes you sad and disoriented and As for the death that we can feel in real life, it is totally almost the same feeling that can occur and feel.