Love and courtship in Shakespeare’s day compared to modern views on love and courtship. During the renaissance the Europeans saw love and courtship as two different yet important parts of life. It concerned expectations of families and communities‚ not just the longings of the couple. Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer Night Dream’ gives us a clear view of a typical situation when couples fall in love and defy the rules. In the play there are four characters (Hermia‚ Helena‚ Lysander
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Categorizing love? The threshold to the infinite definition of love is many. Although many cynics like me‚ may have thought it impossible‚ sociologists over the past several decades have been attempting to categorize and quantify the notion of love. Sternberg in 1986 sees love in terms of the interaction among three independent aspects: passion‚ intimacy (two components of love that many of us need no help in identifying or do I dare say practicing?) and the “C” word that sends many of us rushing
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Poetic Philosophy of Love By Dr. David Naugle Stand still‚ and I will read to thee‚ A lecture‚ love‚ in love’s philosophy. —John Donne‚ “Lecture upon the Shadow” For the enormously complex and vexed John Donne (1572-1631)‚ the one in whom all “contraries meet‚” (Holy Sonnet 18)‚ life was love—the love of women in his early life‚ then the love of his wife (Ann More)‚ and finally the love of God. All other aspects of his experience apart from love‚ it seems‚ were just details. Love was the supreme concern
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is without love? From the very first day our world was created love already existed. Love is the most important ingredient of the creation of the every living thing in this world. Our world and everything that are living were the outcome of love. Love is the basis of our lives. To love and to know love is the single greatest gift we can experience. Love remains a mystery to us. Yet it is something that is so complex and powerful that it guides and rules our lives. Knowing true love is as close
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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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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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Love is portrayed many different times throughout the play‚ from being blind by chance to being one of the most difficult feelings a person can have. One way love is displayed throughout the play is shown as being difficult. Since love is different from what the mind feels and thinks‚ it will not be easy. Lysander is the one to claim‚ “Ay me! for aught that I could ever read‚ / Could ever hear by tale or history‚ / The course of true love never did run smooth; / But‚ either it was different in
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