Blanca decided to things differently with the marriage situation, which made her different than other women. She knew she was going to be marrying a prince and would be of great wealth, but i believe she went about it the way she did in order for the prince to prove his love for her. She didn't want to marry someone who just desired her for beauty, but who actually was in love with her, more than just infatuation. There have been many stories where a man falls head over heels for a woman, but like we discussed in class, its more lust than love. The love isn't real because it is just based off of appearance and fortune. So, Blanca wanted to get to know this stranger who she would marry a year later to come to know his true feelings for her. If he would take the time and have the patience to wait one year without any physical romance, but just conversations through windows, then that would prove his true feelings. They soon fall in love with each other, the real love, and Blanca becomes so unhappy because she causes herself to believe that as soon as the "mystery" is over and they marry, things will change for the worst. Once marriage sets in shes afraid his feelings for her will change from love to hatred and he will also become unhappy because there will be nothing left to win. The game of trying to capture her heart will be over because he will already have her, and the good times will come to an end. Blanca knew her time was running out and that is what caused her to become nervous and uneasy. She even stated, herself, "I'm in even greater despair because the time is running out so quickly and if they think it's too long, i think it's too short" (p 253).
Blanca was always jealous of Arnesto because of the time he spent with her husband. The prince soon payed no attention to her and was all about Arnesto causing her to believe he was of bad news. She thought her husband was cheating on her and having affairs with other woman behind her back, and that Arnesto was to blame. Truth is, though, that Arnesto was the one her husband was having the affair with and she had no idea up until she saw it with her own eyes. As soon as Blanca walked in on them she immediately left and just sat in her room with her face in her hands, not being able to believe what she had just witnessed. Even though nobody knew about the prince and his gay lover, when they were caught by Blanca they did not care. Instead they just laughed it off and one of the men even said, "That sure spooked the Spanish woman" (p 265). With this i think the prince had really fell in love with Blanca and still had love for her, but he was now in love with someone else. He wasn't gay nor straight, but instead bi-sexual. His feelings for Blanca had changed due to him becoming bored with her, his father's hatred for her, and his new love interest. To him, he didn't cross any boundary because it was his life and he did not want her to be a part of it any longer.
Gossip has been around forever and if anything, it has just gotten worse. It is a cruel form of making up lies and deceiving others for cruel reasons. It never ends on a good note, but instead causes humiliation and betrayal. Stories transform into unbelievable lies that never even really happened, and enemies are transformed. Friendships are ruined and the gossip just continues to spread causing no good the entire time. Eventually, if the person is lucky, new gossip will come into effect and the old gossip will just begin to fade. However, that is still not a good thing because in clarifying my point, it is STILL gossip. Truth is gossip is always going to be there, whether we want it to or not, and there isn't much we can do about it. We can try to avoid it or tell our side of the story, but the whole truth will never come out. Gossip is a form of speech that is used for misfortunate reasons. It is a form of bad language and lies that extends from the truth as much as possible. It is done in order for others to be heard when they cant be heard during other times, mostly when the truth is spoken. Gossip is the evil kind of language which comes from our very mouths, and denies the truth to put others at fault for our own amusement.
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