Love is difficult to define. How do you avoid confusing it with infatuation or lust? Philosophers and psychologists both have attempted to define love or at least its difference from infatuation and lust. There are different stages of the feeling love‚ one being lust or desire for someone or something ie. gold‚ money or jewels. Another‚ a feeling of loyalty or intense protectiveness of those around in in a family unit or such that you designate as your life mate or partner. The final is lust or passion
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1984 and Love George Orwell presents us with an interesting portrayal of love in his novel‚ 1984. In the nation of Oceania that he writes about‚ the Party tries desperately to erase love for anything but Big Brother from the lives of its members. In many ways‚ it is successful in doing so. It causes Winston ’s marriage with his wife Katharine to be frigid and cold and to end in separation. Even occasional affairs that sneak by the Party ’s watchful eyes at first‚ like Winston and Julia ’s‚ are eventually
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Love of Parents by Ronaire Joy G. Del Rosario An endless love of parents is a treasure forever cherish by their children. INTRODUCTION The parents know‚ what kind of a man their child will be‚ because he’ll be their reflection.A child is going to be born. Now it is very important that parents must love their baby. They must dream about
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Suzie Joe Kate Netzer English 110 September 19‚ 2012 Portfolio #8 A Love Paper What is it like to be in love? I’ve been in love. Have you been? Many people will say love is many things. People feel different ways about it; some have experienced things others haven’t. Many people’s opinions on the matter and are all very interesting‚ I’d love to tell you what I think and know about love. I believe love is an emotional all human being yearn for. A feeling so powerful it has more power
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Essays in Love is a novel about two young people‚ who meet on an airplane between London and Paris and rapidly fall in love. The structure of the story isn’t unusual‚ but what lends the book its interest is the extraordinary depth with which the emotions involved in the relationship are analysed. Love comes under the philosophical microscope. An entire chapter is devoted to the nuances and subtexts of an initial date. Another chapter mulls over the question of how and when to say ‘I love you’. There’s
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Love in literature What do we talk about when we talk about love? Early poets reached for the sun and stars to describe their beloveds‚ while novelists have struggled to convey their ’wretched ordinariness’. At matins on 6 April 1327‚ in the church of St Clare in Avignon‚ Francesco Petrarch may or may not have seen Laura for the first time: her skin "whiter and colder than snow‚ not touched by the sun for many years"‚ golden hair‚ black eyes. We don’t know for sure whether Laura really existed
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Presentation of love in The Duchess of Malfi The Duchess of Malfi has a whole host of characters showing love in very different ways‚ some traditional and some controversial. Literature through the ages has presented love in many different forms; from friendship to lust or platonic love to romance. Be it love for another person‚ love for pleasure or love for power; love can be seen as an origin for a multitude of emotions and motivations. It is not uncommon in literature to show how love can be ultimately
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hurt. Because how can you give your dreams to someone else‚ yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the truest love is the love that can never be" I have met this amazing man a year ago‚ he completely changed my life. He made me a better person. He is my equal and he is my world. It is only when I am with him that I feel like I have come home. You are lucky to find this type of love once in lifetime. And I think we all live in hope of just finding it let alone keeping it. It sounds like a fairy
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True Love Lots of people especially teenagers are still confused with the word “true love”. They often misinterpret it and think that they already found it‚ but in fact‚ it is just an infatuation. We should be aware that true love and infatuation differs greatly with each other. Infatuation is an intense feeling wherein only sexual attraction matters to the two persons. It is a short-lived physical desire. True love is also an intense feeling but it is deeper than infatuation. The story of Cupid
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.love Every relationship has a cycle… In the beginning; you fall in love with your partner. You anticipate their calls‚ want their touch‚ and like their idiosyncrasies. Falling in love wasn’t hard. In fact‚ it was a completely natural and spontaneous experience. You didn’t have to DO anything. That’s why it’s called "falling" in love. People in love sometimes say‚ "I was swept of my feet."Picture the expression. It implies that you were just standing there; doing nothing‚ and then something
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