La Dame and Cathy Ames Comparison

In the rime La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats and the story East Of nirvana by John Steinbeck some(prenominal) authors similarly characterize wo workforce as atrocious through the phthisis of the literary technique of vision. Both Steinbeck and Keats throughout their literary productions describe events and people in great detail. Both of the wowork force be glorious yet stupid, vest a man to sleep, and force someone to solitude. In the beginning of both the poem and story the authors give a genuinely visual description of the women.They are both considered to appear on the exterior as if they are a faerys child beautiful. But when you look into their look a sense of being wild is within them. The wildness that the men see in their eyes foreshadows their savage nature. The wildness on the wholeudes to and foreshadows the womens animalistic and obdurate actions. In both storys the women seduce multiple men with their physical attracter in order to gain control of them and represent the situation gather them.The authors use imagery in their texts by explaining in detail the womens dramatic physical features in order to make the reader picture the women in the same way that the narrator does. Steinbeck and Keats effectivly project the images of the women into the minds of the reader. In the two pieces of literary works both of the authors specify a scene using imagery in which the beautiful women make a man fall asleep in order to obtain what they want.In Steinbecks case it would be Cathy Ames overdosing Adam so she nookie sleep with Charles on the night of their wedding. While in Keats poem it is La Dame who slowly puts the unsuspecting knight to sleep so she canister murder him. The women in these scenes commit awful acts but neither of them odor any remorse or conscience, which oes to exhibition the women are truly merciless and have a wild nature. In Keats story he uses imagery in the knights vivid dream as a warning to show him all of La Dames past victims who had been lured in and killed before him.This shows that La Dames skin senses of love are false and that she will continue to mercilessly spite people. The authors uses of imagery in these scenes make the reader feel like they are in the story watching the horrible acts take place and make the reader lovingly hate the women for their cruel and clever actions. In both texts Steinbeck and Keats write a very visual scene about men leaving the eautiful women and cutting all ties to them because they realize that the women are fake, merciless and wild.In the poem written by Keats the knight wakes up as a lonely and palely loitering man because he realizes that if he continued to take over La Dame he would end up like all the other men who fell for her because she is wild and will never be tamed, she is merciless and all of her fealings were false. La Dame emotionally misconstrues the knight and leaves hime to give-up the ghost his life as a dead perso n with his heart in a million pieces. In Steinbecks novel the whoremaster, Mr.Edwards, beats and then leaves Cathy to die because he feels that Cathy had constantly manipulated him and hurt him emotionally, physically and finically and he ever have to mess hall with her and be put through what he had been. Throughout each of the literary masterpieces both authors similarly characterize women as merciless through the use of the literary technique of imagery. Both of the women are beautiful yet wild, put a man to sleep, and force someone to solitude. Cathy Ames and La Dame were characterized as two despicipable women who inflicted pain and suffering upon others, to make up for the emotions that they cannot feel.