Make-Up Of Love By Armitage Analysis

Armitage writes her article by comparing love through many perspectives and metaphorical frames. Immediately, Armitage adopts a romantic, fairy-tale persona to highlight to the audience that love was once an unproblematic experience of life. The title of the piece with symbolic verb “broken” infers connotations that science has destroyed idyllic love. Furthermore, the low-modality of “could help save marriages” reveals the totality of Armitage’s feelings towards this chemical make-up of love, emphasising the author’s disjointed uncertainty of the scientific approach.

The piece foregrounds and gives “textual prominence” (Huckin, 1997, p. 82). to the depiction of love through both a fabled lens and a scientific lens. The descriptive comparison of the symbolism “hearts and doves, stars and fireworks” with “functional magnetic resonance imaging” highlights how contemporary relationships are no longer a fairytale experience, or specifically “aren’t nearly as pretty.”
Armitage reveals her viewpoint on love within modern society and subtly influences the audience to adopt a similar viewpoint through rhetorical question:
“Where is the mystery now that the machinery of science has broken love’s magic spell?…is romance dead?”

Contrasting to Armitage’s fairy tale allusions, she further foregrounds commentary from modern-day experts who highlight how love has evolved from an “out of this world experience” to one comprised of chemical make-up.
The juxtaposition between fairy-tale jargon and scientific colloquial language emphasizes to the reader how the relationship paradigm has shifting overtime and ultimately changed within society. Her metaphorical comparisons and collocations to the ideas of love and drugs further exemplifies to the reader how love has shifted throughout
history