Everybody knows Hades, the greek god who got swallowed by his father and is the ruler of the underworld, but like everybody else Hades wanted to have a wife, a partner, someone to love. Now, nobody really wanted to be Hades’s wife because they were all terrified of him but he was still desperate for someone to call his and he was determined to have a wife. One day, with every girl rejecting his offer to be his wife, he became impatient and went on a search for Aphrodite. Aphrodite was the most…
The concept of beauty has been a baffling issue and a bone of contention among thinkers and intellectuals. Such confusion can plausibly be understood through the changeable standards considered in every culture and the many attempts to approach it. Throughout history, it has been glorified and highlighted in many ways. From a philosophical perspective, Kant, in Observation on the Feeling of Beautiful and Sublime , tackles beauty, through the view that women are identified by their beauty, while…
Cupidity series encourage people to chase love, bring hope to the youth, and features with romantic tales, great music, attractive actors and very few ice creams to relate to the main topic. Young people encounter with each other and get little help from cupid and then they discover each other and wait for the magic happens. Anything is possible in love, Cornetto attempts to tell teen that “enjoy the ride, love the ending.” This collection of love stories brings some real life examples to depict…
Kindness In Before I Fall “Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.” This statement is the Golden Rule of our world and society, we apply it almost everything. This statement is also applied to the book Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. In the novel, Oliver tells the story of high schooler Samantha Kingston. She is popular but hangs out with her three friends Ally, Lindsay, and Elody. Lindsay has a problem with Juliet Sykes, who used to be her best friend, because of an incident that…
People often depend on others for a sense of security and acceptance. When we do, we sometimes become so dependent that we lose sight of where we, ourselves, begin. In William Shakespeare`s, “Romeo and Juliet”, Romeo demonstrates just this. His passionate nature causes him to often fall under great infatuation, to a point in which he falls into great misery when discovered that he cannot have what he wants. Romeo then isolates himself as a coping mechanism, and begins to lack concern for himself…
Although it is a controversial belief, love at first sight can be defined as falling in love with “someone” for the first time after just seeing him or her. Falling in love has been described as an ability, a concept, and/or feeling of love when with or without your significant other or crush. Now, the big word, Love, is a controversial meaning through cultures, novels, and even people. There have been varied definitions all aligned with an overwhelming feeling. The exact phrase “love at first…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perhaps the most famous play ever written by William Shakespeare. It is an excellent example of comedy. The play follows the story of several pairs of lovers. The four main pairs of lovers in the play, Theseus and Hippolyta, Oberon and Titania, Lysander and Hermia, and Demetrius and Helena, each represent a different form of love. The plot of the play involves the trials that some of these characters go through and demonstrates which kinds of love should be idolized…
They play the same music every single year, that just gets really old for example the cupid shuffle that song is for a four-year not seniors in high school. The backgrounds for the pictures from freshman year of homecoming was the freakiest background ever that was with Ronald McDonald as the background, let me just say that was really stupid…
Primavera, painted by the Florentine Sandro Botticelli, is a beautiful artwork from the 1400’s most likely sanctioned by the Medici family in celebration of a wedding. The first element of this painting that draws me in is the exquisite talent of the artist shown in the drapery of the clothes the figures wear, particularly by the three women standing together on the left side of the painting, most likely picturing the Three Fates, characters from Greek and Roman myth. The drapery is very much…
In some instances, Shakespeare 's play 'Twelfth Night ' could be seen as a romantic comedy due to the common themes of despair and infatuation that the audience find to be amusing. The play 's main focus is romantic love, and the many aspects of comedy derive from seeing characters pining after one another. However, the play itself could be seen as a satire due to the stereotypical vision of love that is created. Shakespeare often mocks the idealistic image of love by demonstrating emotions as…