Love in Hamlet, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, and 'We Real Cool'
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July 20 Love in hamlet, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, and “We Real Cool” In the twenty-first century, we assume that love has been a driving factor in literature as well as in life for all of human history.... The different portrayals of love in the following three texts can, at least in part, be attributed to the time of their writing: hamlet, in 1600, reflects a world in which love was idealized but often not really part of reality.... This leads one to ask: now, fifty years after “We Real Cool”, what role does love play in modern literature, and is it as reflective of our reality as hamlet, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, and “We Real Cool” were in their times?...