Comparing Love in To Dance with the White dog and Moulin Rouge :: comparison compare contrast essays

Comparing Love in To leap with the White dog and Moulin Rouge In the novel, To Dance with the White dog, terry Kay crafts a love story about surface-to-air missile Peek and his married woman Cora, that seems to extend beyond the grave in the form of a duster dog. At the same time, the film Moulin Rouge is a fast paced, tensely dramatic, love triangle between Christian, the poor writer, Satine, the courtesan that every star fancies, and the Duke, who has the money to render the Moulin Rouge into a theatre with real merit. Both movies center on the main theme of love but take two polar stands on that love. While Satine is futile to concentrate solely on a single relationship, Sam Peek is able to focus solely on the love of his life, Cora. In To Dance with the White Dog, there are several(prenominal) instances that show Sams devotion and unchanging love for Cora. When Sam writes in his journal, at the beginning of the novel, Today my wife died. We were married 57 goo d age (Kay 9). Sam was completely devoted to his wife for over half a century and even after her death with his devotion to White Dog, who he perceived to be his deceased wife watching over him. regular(a) though Satine was unable to pursue her love for Christian due to her death, her ambiguity towards her two suitors makes the viewer wonder if she could be as devoted to one love as Sam is devoted to his wife. A prime illustration of Sams enduring fidelity is when he goes to his wifes grave, ... He took the hoe and cut by at the weeds, balancing on his walker, until the plot was clean (Kay 42). No field what his circumstance, Sam is going to do what he can for his wife, even if it is hardly taking care of his wifes grave. Christian does something similar to this by writing Satines and his story, so that the world would know about their love. The love is there, but the audience is unable to see if Satine and Christians love would last as long as Sam and Coras due to Satines untimely death at the end of the film.