Critical Analysis of Loneliness in the Net
Uploaded by TrQ on Apr 03, 2008
A critical analysis of Christine’s love in "Loneliness in the net”
In “Loneliness by the net”, there are many love stories with many characters. However, in this essay, I only want to analyze about Christine – the main female character, who is always just be called “she” – and her “love”.
The romance between Christine and Jakub, and the ending of the story makes the readers puzzled a lot. Is it really a love? Does Christian love Jakub truly? If she really loves him, how can she leave him easily like that? But if she doesn’t love him, how we can explain the horror pain she suffered when she mistook that Jakub died? Why, why and why... So many questions.... And we will answer these questions by analyze Christine’s character.
At the beginning of the story, chapter 1, the author described a lot about Christian’s feelings and her thought. Somehow, the author gives us the key to understand her.
She is lonely. Somehow, she less and less satisfies with her husband day by day, even he is still handsome. Her passion and her emotion (or I should use “their” instead of “her”) is being faded. “Her husband had stopped kissing her hair a long time ago and became so… terribly predictable”. “Not that it all got boring. It was not so bad yet. But the drive was no longer there. It became dissipated in the prose of everyday life. Things had cooled down”. “It was probably because it was available. Everything was to hand. Nothing had to be striven for. They knew every single hair on their bodies, every possible smell of their skin – dry or sweaty. They knew every nook and cranny of their bodies, heard all the sighs, predicted all reactions and believed in all confessions. Some of which were occasionally repeated, but they no longer made any impression. They were part of the script”. She wants to have, to try something new, some “wild-feelings”, some passion which she couldn’t get from her “old” husband. She wants someone bring some new-intense emotion to her. It’s her deep and hidden demand. However, maybe because she hasn’t found the suitable man yet, and she still loves her husband, there was nothing happened, till the day she met Jakub...
Jakub is an intelligent, sensitive, kind and romantic man. He is attractive, and he is very suitable for her hidden demand. I think Christian has deep...