The power of love- Comparative essay In both visual and written texts‚ love operates as a powerful and inescapable force‚ which can influence life in various ways. In Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ love is represented as a forbidden romantic experience which ultimately ends in tragedy. Wayne Bennet represents a love of life in his autobiography‚ ‘Don’t Die With the Music in You’‚ through the exploration of his love for football and coaching. Finally‚ Baz Luhrman represents love in the film ‘Moulin Rouge’
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Friendship and love. Each is thus much related to every other. And both are thus dissimilar! What are the differences between friendship and love? Is platonic friendship doable between persons of female? Let us strive and understand. What is friendship? Why do we call someone our friend? When do we tend to call someone a terribly smart friend? If we look after someone‚ if we are forever prepared to help that person and if we tend to share most of our thoughts with someone‚ they are our smart friends
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During the Middle Ages‚ Courtly love was a code which prescribed the conduct between a lady and her lover (Britannica). The relationship of courtly love was very much like the feudal relationship between a knight and his liege. The lover serves his beloved‚ in the manner a servant would. He owes his devotion and allegiance to her‚ and she inspires him to perform noble acts of valor (Schwartz). Capellanus writes‚ in The Art of Courtly Love‚ “A true lover considers nothing good except what he thinks
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About love Psychologists and researchers have proposed a number of different theories of love. Love is a basic human emotion‚ but understanding how and why it happens is not necessarily easy. In fact‚ for a long time‚ many people suggested that love was simply something that science couldn’t understand. The following are four of the major theories proposed to explain liking‚ love‚ and emotional attachment. Scales of Liking and Loving The nature of love has been explored by a number of theorists
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INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION AND LOVE: Attraction is what makes us choose to interact with some people and not others. Many factors influence this attraction. Examples are: i. Propinquity: This is geographical closeness. People tend to be attracted to people they know well and interact with often. The propinquity effect is the finding that the more we see and interact with people; the more likely they are to be our friend and potential partners. ii. Similarity and Homogamy: while propinquity
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death do they part is sealed. So‚ they start the institution of family upon which LOVE is and must b e foundation in another situation‚ we hear on TV “crimes of passion” where people are scarred for life on dead for the sake of love; so they say. The question now is: what is LOVE? A weak human feeling? LOVE is blind? Valentine’s day? Ask any random person and you will get any random answer also. Personally‚ love is felt or expressed rather than defined‚ I cannot give the exact meaning but I know
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The three types of love As you live‚ you learn to love in many different ways. You can love your friends‚ your family‚ your girlfriend or boyfriend‚ eating‚ writing‚ singing‚ learning and the list just keeps growing and growing till infinity. Basically you can love anything and anyone. Sure‚ you love your mother and father‚ but you also love your girlfriend or boyfriend in a different certain way. It’s the way you love‚ which makes it certain what the type of love you have towards anyone or anything
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True love or real love is a central element in the play and is established by Shakespeare in opposition to sexual love or love that can be bought. True love and loyalty and loyalty are opposed by selfish love and treachery. The theme of love enters the play in its early stages when Lear in Act 1 Sc. 1 shows that he doesn’t understand the concept of real love. This is indicated by his setting up of verbal love test in the attempt to establish the extent of his daughters love for him. He places himself
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Shakespeare’s View on Love Shakespeare’s plays are very drastic with how he ties love into them. Shakespeare always adds comedy or tragedy to any romance that might be taking place. For example in Twelfth Night‚ As You like It and Romeo and Juliet there is romance but he also puts comedy in there so love is not that easy. In the play Othello he makes it into a tragedy which makes the love even harder to take place. Shakespeare has always found a way to make love as complicated as he can which
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Love For some people love is a complete devotion and endless adoration‚ for others is a temporary feeling that will disappear in time. For some people it is a fairy-tale and for others it is a dream come true. Some people say love is once-in-a lifetime thing and others believe that after one love comes another. The more you think about what love is the more you get closer to the true meaning of this feeling- the more you realize that the definition of love is probably your own‚ unique and sincere
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