Love

What is love? People throw this word around every day, without even knowing the true meaning. According to Oxford dictionary, love is “an intense feeling of deep affection”. To me, this definition is the best way to describe this feeling. However, each person has their own individual meaning of love. Love comes in many different forms. It could be the love you have for a best friend, parent, significant other or even a sport. My love for my mother is totally different from the love I have for…

While many people view love as a state of bliss and carefree enjoyment, those entangled in a hopeless situation yearn to escape its cruel grasp. When loves ensnares someone, he or she often acts uncontrollably and thinks delirious thoughts. Shakespeare explores the ridiculous responses to love through a hopeless love triangle in his play Twelfth Night. At the beginning of the play, Count Orsino of Illyria mopes around his home and pines for the grieving lady Olivia by sending messengers to her…

the forcefulness of love between Romeo and Juliet, which is dominant and spiritual. It is concluded that the love between Romeo and Juliet is fierce and passionate, yet generous. Although it is tragic in the end that brought the destruction of the star-crossed lovers, it thawed the ancient grudge and rejuvenated the relationship between the Capulets and the Montagues, preventing any further blood spilt between the two households. According to Collins Cobuild Dictionary, love is a very strong…

Lust and Love “Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes,” -Marquis de Sade. In the tragic play, Romeo, and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, lust and love are exemplified in several ways throughout this play. Two star-crossed lovers make choices solely based on their feelings for each other which effect both their lives in unimaginable ways. Lust and love are two key factors which can lead to careless mistakes and destructive outcomes. Lust is a very strong emotion…

to win over their love but will fail in the end. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, talks about the West Egg and East Egg in the luxurious time of the 1920’s. The novel revolves around the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan. This forbidden love is able to portray Fitzgerald’s message in the novel that money can buy an individual popularity in society but not sacrificial love. In society, money cannot get a person, sacrificial love. Leading in from a…

Our current social paradox of love has left many us 20 somethings that are looking for their “forever thing” quite disappointed. From high school sweethearts, college romances, night life hook-ups and tinder dates, we’ve managed to become the masters none and the Jackass’ of them all. Nothing seems to work, possibly because the same people we meet on Tinder are the same people attending we're universities and hitting the town with. Our perspective and mentality on love is up for discussion, not…

Love in a way can be described as something that has to be felt from the deep roots of our soul. It is something that we all need and desire whether it is sexual,common or consensual. You see, everybody shows their love and affection different from each other, nobody is the same. However the question that keeps getting brought up is, what exactly is this thing we call love? At the start of the symposium each of the philosophers and poets start to explain what the concept of love is to each one…

Love. The one single, powerful emotion that has the ability to change everything. Love is many things. It is patient and kind. It is unpredictable and unconditional. Love is like walking down a road and coming upon two paths; both will change your life forever, but you have to decide which one is good, which one is bad, which one is right, and which one is wrong. It is like riding on a roller coaster and knowing there is going to be many twists, turns, drops, and sometimes, a moment of peace,…

several examples of different types of love between characters. Throughout the story, there is proof of unrequited love, romantic love, the love of family loyalty, parental love, and friendship. Each form of love having it’s own traits that are similar and different from another’s. One of the main types of love most expressed in Romeo and Juliet is romantic love. This is expressed between Romeo and Juliet themselves, as the chorus says “now Romeo is beloved and loves again” (2.Prologue.5). The…

ideas are professed about love and what is acceptable to do while in love with someone. Similarly, around the time period when knights were prominent, there were a group of thirty-one rules that were referred to the rules of courtly love. The rules of courtly love were used as a general guideline to love, determining whether ones love was true or even permitted according to the standards of the time period. Although these rules were considered to exemplify the proper way to love, many characters…