The Story of Layla and Majnun, a love story to be known for centuries. The story that creates its own specification about love and depicts the epitome of true love. As readers flip through Nizami’s eloquent narration of the story, they get the sense of love and its odd, yet enticing duality through imagery and metaphors. Nizami presents a myriad of opposing images that complement each other well. Images such as the sun and moon, poison and pure water, and roses and thorns. On first look these pairs are confusing and should not be in the same category, they are pairings of evil and good, danger and beauty, ideas that usually do not mesh well together. However, in The Story of Layla and Majnun, readers are made aware of the necessity of both.
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His way to her is described as “water pouring into a trough” whereas leaving her is like “mak[ing] his way through a hundred crevasses thick with thorn-bushes” (11). We see Majnun lusting after the rose, Layla, and although, not a literal trail of thorn-bushes, readers are becoming aware of the connotation thorns hold. Thorns are being perceived as negative and the danger in the story. The thorns cause pain on the path of receiving the rose’. The rose causes humans to run directly into the face of danger as the beauty is greater than the pain. Much of love! Love is a beautiful and attractive concept like the rose, however, due to external factors love can ‘prick’ you like a thorn and give you pain in return. Majnun is willing to go through the emotional pain equivalent to the physical pain of walking through “thorn-bushes” for his love, his rose, his Layla (11). Majnun is accepting that pain is a part of the love. Love is not only positive and perfect, like many concepts it has its consequences. The greatest consequence of all being pain. The balance of the satisfaction and happiness love gives as well as the pain it bestows is what creates true …show more content…
Both Majnun and Layla admire one another as if they were roses, emitting true beauty. They both longed for one another, but as soon as they were in proximity to each other the thorn pricked them and inflicted pain. They “suffer from hunger and thirst and unfulfilled desire, and forget that satisfaction might be [thei]r peril and indigence [thei]r salvation” (162). Once they realized coming too close would just bring immeasurable pain to both, rather than giving altogether they persisted and loved from afar. They held onto the metaphorical stem of the rose letting the thorns pierce their skin solely for the satisfaction of seeing the
His way to her is described as “water pouring into a trough” whereas leaving her is like “mak[ing] his way through a hundred crevasses thick with thorn-bushes” (11). We see Majnun lusting after the rose, Layla, and although, not a literal trail of thorn-bushes, readers are becoming aware of the connotation thorns hold. Thorns are being perceived as negative and the danger in the story. The thorns cause pain on the path of receiving the rose’. The rose causes humans to run directly into the face of danger as the beauty is greater than the pain. Much of love! Love is a beautiful and attractive concept like the rose, however, due to external factors love can ‘prick’ you like a thorn and give you pain in return. Majnun is willing to go through the emotional pain equivalent to the physical pain of walking through “thorn-bushes” for his love, his rose, his Layla (11). Majnun is accepting that pain is a part of the love. Love is not only positive and perfect, like many concepts it has its consequences. The greatest consequence of all being pain. The balance of the satisfaction and happiness love gives as well as the pain it bestows is what creates true …show more content…
Both Majnun and Layla admire one another as if they were roses, emitting true beauty. They both longed for one another, but as soon as they were in proximity to each other the thorn pricked them and inflicted pain. They “suffer from hunger and thirst and unfulfilled desire, and forget that satisfaction might be [thei]r peril and indigence [thei]r salvation” (162). Once they realized coming too close would just bring immeasurable pain to both, rather than giving altogether they persisted and loved from afar. They held onto the metaphorical stem of the rose letting the thorns pierce their skin solely for the satisfaction of seeing the