“The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body…but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished….” (56)
"You can't always get what you want," is perhaps an essential motto to live by. Often times the hunt is more thrilling than the capture, and once a person obtains something, the value of that thing decreases immediately. Shelley imposes that her character is disappointed and unsatisfied with his result, despite the fact that during the whole process, he had seen a certain beauty in his dream.
Rolling Stones, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (Let It Bleed, 1969)
that first line is very reader response rather than analytical -- how else can you frame that?
ReplyDelete“The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body…but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished….” (56)
ReplyDeleteIf the idea that "you can't always get what you want" was not such a recurrent theme in many people's lives, the song with that title would not have conducted nearly the same amount of fame that it has today. Often times the hunt for something is more thrilling than the capture, and once a person obtains that object, the value of it decreases immediately. Shelley imposes that her character is disappointed and unsatisfied with his result, despite the fact that during the whole process, he had seen a certain beauty in his dream.
Rolling Stones, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (Let It Bleed, 1969)