“It is impossible to love someone different to yourself.” To what extent is this shown in ‘The Divine Wind’?

“It is impossible to love someone different to yourself.” To what extent is this shown in ‘The Divine Wind’?

The reoccurring theme of loving someone different to yourself was shown in a number of different relationships including Michael and Ida’s, Mitsy and Harts and Carl and Alice’s throughout ‘The Divine Wind’. It was a problem that kept and drove relationships apart and in the end love didn’t seem to prevail.

We see the notion of loving someone different to yourself in Michaels and Ida’s relationship. We see how this, evidently, drove Ida to leave Broome and return to England, where she died.

Ida was quite out of place in the Penrose household and in Broome itself. Although Michael belongs to the upper class of Broome he did not share their racist, intolerant views. He has a zest for life and is happiest when he is at sea. Michael was aware of Ida’s alienation and growing sense of frustration and despair due to the fact that she didn’t fit in, she...