In Plato’s Symposium each philosopher shared a different version of love when they gave their speech. First of all, Phaedrus expressed that love was the oldest of all gods and the one that does the most to promote virtue in people. Second, the strangest speech of the night came from Aristophanes; he expressed love in the form of a mythical story. Here is a quote from part of Aristophanes speech on his version of love, “We are twice the people we are now, and the gods were jealous, Zeus decided to cut us in half to reduce our power, and ever since we had been running all over the earth trying to rejoin with our other half. When we do, we cling to that other half with all our might, and we call this love.” (Aristophanes…
War is already traumatizing for high schoolers who learn about in U.S. History as it is,…
Love could always lead to various outcomes. I feel like Rokujō is the most affectionate woman in the tale. She loves Genji with her truest heart, but Genji is very fickle in love, and his capriciousness makes Rokujō’s love turns into hate involuntarily. Rokujō is supposed to have a splendor life and live without any worries. She is intelligent and brilliant, and she is supposed to be the future Empress. However, everything has been changed after her husband died, and her affair with Genji turns her life into misery and tragedy.…
That leads to Paris’ death. The battle begins by Paris saying “I do defy thy conjuration/ and apprehend thee for a felon here”./ Romeo then says “Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee, boy!”/…
Love is considered to be a deep feeling or an intense affection that you feel for something or somebody. A spy can be said to be a person working for another individual that gathers information on something to then give it back to the individual that the spy is working for. A spy and love, by definition, do not compare to each other for several reasons but they are considered to be a type of brother and sister. Can a spy ever truly love? Is a spy capable of trust? These are opinion related questions that allow you to look deeper into the relationship a spy has with another, so called important person in that spy’s life. In fact, maybe the best known spy to man in James Bond, aka double 007. Exploring many readings and movies…
Kyle Cox Dr. Rosenberg Classical Literature 29 September 2014 Gilgamesh Theme Love is the most powerful force in the world. There never will be and there never has been anything as strong. But it is far too easy to say that love is the most powerful emotion — we all know it is. People, however, rarely assume the task of deciding which type of love is the strongest.…
There are many types of love that are portrayed in Shakespeare's play "Romeo & Juliet". One of them being sincere, dignified love that both the main characters, Romeo and Juliet, have for each other. Although it seems that Romeo and Juliet do love each other with true, whole-hearted love, it does seem that they want to rush things in their relationship, for instance they fall in love, get married and die together within six days! Then again maybe they want to rush things because they do indeed share unfeigned love for each other and don't want to be away from each other for even a single minute.…
In life, we all going through many relationships until we find the one who we feel is te perfect mate for us. While we are datin others, we may experience different types of boyfriends. Based on certain characteristics, an excessiv type of boyfriend can be passiv, energetic or prejudiced.…
Love is defined as an intense feeling of deep affection. In Raymond Carver’s, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” the idea of love is discussed from multiple points of view. When you think about love, your definition of love is vastly different from mine or anybody else's. Love is the most powerful emotion you can feel, thus your individual perception as to what love entails is personally fitted to you and nobody can tell you different.…
Kenrick, D. T., Neuberg, S. L., & Cialdini, R. B. (2007). Social psychology: Goals in interaction…
Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare is one of the most famous love stories. Most people think it is just about romantic love, but indeed it has many different forms of love that exists which is portrayed throughout the Shakespearian novel. The novel uses the main theme of love to push the story along and keep it going. Presented are variations of love including forbidden love, unrequited Love and blind love. This essay aims to analyse these three types of love chosen.…
Maslow, A. H. (1953). Love in healthy people. In A. Montagu (ed.), The meaning of…
Everyone has a love language and a primary way of expressing and interpreting love. Expressing ourselves is something we do everyday, especially when we are showing someone how we feel. Words of affirmation, Quality time, Giving and receiving gifts, Acts of service, and Physical touch are the five universal love languages. Everyone expresses love and feels love by one of these love languages. “What if you could say or do just the right thing guaranteed to make that special someone feel loved? The secret is learning the right love language (Chapman)!”…
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” is a widely known story on love and everybody’s different outlook on this emotion that we all define in our own unique ways. As we read through, we discover how love can be disguised, felt, and accepted from one person to the next.…
Throughout much of history, Romantic love was often characterized as something ineffable, a notion that is best understood through the senses. It is only until recently that we are finding the subject of Romantic love discussed within the context of societal strictures and its role in the reinforcement of gender stereotypes. This reinforcement of stereotypes becomes particularly apparent when considering how often women are portrayed as “damsels in distress” in romantic love narratives. This image of the helpless damsel has been traditionally depicted as the feminine ideal, and is a literary archetype that leaves many female characters underdeveloped and without a voice. With such rigid gender roles in place within the romantic genre, the question…