Love is affection. Love is sacrifice. Love is compromise. Love is faith. Love is believable and unbelievable. Love is destiny. Love is strength. Love is trust. Love is a desire with lust. Love is the world. Yeah, exactly what is love?
Love is all about showing ineffable feelings, affections, and solicitude toward a person whom you care about or have very strong feelings for. It can also be expressed in many ways. Love has so many definitions and it is defined differently to others in their own opinions. As in the Merriam-Webster's online dictionary would state the meaning as
"Strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties, or attraction based on sexual desire, affection, and tenderness felt by lovers or affection based …show more content…
There are many different kinds of love-different in objects, different in tendency and expression-and as they occur in the individual life, they raise the problem of unity and order.These are the theories of love find it necessary to begin” (Chapter 50: Love 1053). During the time of the Ancient Greeks, they were just as sophisticated in the way they talked about love than what we can say about it today, and managed to recognize six different varieties: Eros meaning sexual passion, Philia meaning deep friendship, Ludus meaning playful love, Agape or love for everyone, Pragma meaning long lasting love, and Philautia meaning love of the self. Eros, named after the Greek god of fertility, and it represented the idea of sexual passion and also desire. But the Greeks didn't always think of it as something positive. In fact, eros was viewed as rather dangerous, fiery, and irrational form of love that could take hold of you and possess you. Philia concerned the deep comradely friendship that developed between brothers in arms who had fought side by side on the battlefield. It was about showing loyalty to your friends, sacrificing for them, as well as sharing your emotions with one another. Ludus was the Greeks' idea of playful love, which referred to the affection between children or young lovers. We've all had a taste of it in the flirting and teasing in the early stages of a relationship. But we also live out …show more content…
Until the day she leaves him, Humbert's physical desire for Lolita overshadows everything in their lives, as he exploits her vulnerability and dependence on him to satisfy his needs. Humbert realizes by their last meeting that his obsession with her has ruined Lolita's life, and though he regrets robbing her of her youth and innocence “the very things that had attracted him to her in the first place“ he also knows there is no way he can make up for that crime. From the opening sentence, with his ruminations on the name of his beloved, Humbert Humbert dives into his biography to persuade the reader that there are justifiable reasons for his doomed love affair with Lolita. He tells us that "You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy in order to see "the little deadly demon among the wholesome children (17). It is in his own adolescence where Humbert's first sexual encounter with Annabel ("no nymphet to him) begins the journey of his obsession (17). Annabel's death at a young age, in a novel where almost every character we meet has an early demise, propels his cravings. It is their "premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives that blossoms into an early defense of his poisonous love for young girls (18). Many years after their affair comes to an end,
Love is all about showing ineffable feelings, affections, and solicitude toward a person whom you care about or have very strong feelings for. It can also be expressed in many ways. Love has so many definitions and it is defined differently to others in their own opinions. As in the Merriam-Webster's online dictionary would state the meaning as
"Strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties, or attraction based on sexual desire, affection, and tenderness felt by lovers or affection based …show more content…
There are many different kinds of love-different in objects, different in tendency and expression-and as they occur in the individual life, they raise the problem of unity and order.These are the theories of love find it necessary to begin” (Chapter 50: Love 1053). During the time of the Ancient Greeks, they were just as sophisticated in the way they talked about love than what we can say about it today, and managed to recognize six different varieties: Eros meaning sexual passion, Philia meaning deep friendship, Ludus meaning playful love, Agape or love for everyone, Pragma meaning long lasting love, and Philautia meaning love of the self. Eros, named after the Greek god of fertility, and it represented the idea of sexual passion and also desire. But the Greeks didn't always think of it as something positive. In fact, eros was viewed as rather dangerous, fiery, and irrational form of love that could take hold of you and possess you. Philia concerned the deep comradely friendship that developed between brothers in arms who had fought side by side on the battlefield. It was about showing loyalty to your friends, sacrificing for them, as well as sharing your emotions with one another. Ludus was the Greeks' idea of playful love, which referred to the affection between children or young lovers. We've all had a taste of it in the flirting and teasing in the early stages of a relationship. But we also live out …show more content…
Until the day she leaves him, Humbert's physical desire for Lolita overshadows everything in their lives, as he exploits her vulnerability and dependence on him to satisfy his needs. Humbert realizes by their last meeting that his obsession with her has ruined Lolita's life, and though he regrets robbing her of her youth and innocence “the very things that had attracted him to her in the first place“ he also knows there is no way he can make up for that crime. From the opening sentence, with his ruminations on the name of his beloved, Humbert Humbert dives into his biography to persuade the reader that there are justifiable reasons for his doomed love affair with Lolita. He tells us that "You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy in order to see "the little deadly demon among the wholesome children (17). It is in his own adolescence where Humbert's first sexual encounter with Annabel ("no nymphet to him) begins the journey of his obsession (17). Annabel's death at a young age, in a novel where almost every character we meet has an early demise, propels his cravings. It is their "premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives that blossoms into an early defense of his poisonous love for young girls (18). Many years after their affair comes to an end,