Every story has a theme. It may not be very prevalent, but it is still there. Themes help characters and the reader learn lessons in clever ways. Most themes can be applied to any time period and to any person. Take the famous story “The Tortoise and the Hare”.…
The Great Gatsby Love is a strange and undefinable emotion, the concepts and ideas about love are very broad, but one thing is not: It is powerful. Love makes people vulnerable, it may seem like a bullet that pierces through your perpetuity, but what is a person without vulnerability. People are born from that passion and that is why life is an endless conquest in pursuit of that same love. The feel of it is what makes a human a human. All rationality and sanity go out the window and one is left in their original state, almost like an animal of instinct.…
Relationships between family and friends can bring out a passion in people that can be dangerous. In “Romeo & Juliet”, “Once Upon a Time”, and “And of Clay We Are Created” the characters go to extreme measures to care for the ones they love. Passion is defined as a strong and barely controllable emotion. When one individual can’t control their own emotions they may act out putting themselves and others in danger, as the characters in this story did.…
Hippocampus Obviously, when I hear the term, hippocampus, I think of hippopotami! I think of a college campus full of them roaming about. I imagine these creatures prancing around on two feet, carrying a backpack on their backs, walking to class. I then think of them trying to type on the keyboards in the library with their ginormous feet.…
Love, an intense feeling that can create beautiful things or destroy the world. For some, love is a fantasy that may never be realized. For others, love fuels them throughout their day giving them life and filling them with a joy that no other can imagine. It can bring families together or tear them apart. However, the one true fact about love, is that it is different for everyone.…
This part of the brain is still changing and maturing well into adulthood” (“Teen Brain: Behavior…”). This explains why Romeo, and many other teenagers, make impulsive decisions based on relationships. A teen does not have the ability to make the decision that they are truly in love due to their underdeveloped minds. This infatuation can often lead to unstable relationships with precarious…
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals” (Anais Nin). Young love, a concept as common nowadays as it was centuries ago, however that does not make the idea unerring, for each love that was built upon blind lust, and immaturity is inevitable to eradicate its own self as shown by the couple of Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare, the author of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, utilizes the suicidal thoughts of Romeo and Juliet to illustrate that young love has a self-destructive proclivity because the couple is too young to decipher the meaning of love, are reckless and immature, and are dependent on others to solve their problems.…
Living in the remanence: "Shit! Shit! Shit! J run!" I dared not to look back, even if I did the thick shadows and mist would have camouflaged the creature following so closely behind.…
Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other is based on a flourish of new responsibilities, emotions, and feelings. In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, the theme demonstrates that young people tend to be extremely passionate, leading to impulsive qualities that are both positive and negative. The two teenagers are intensely in love; they jump to conclusions while rushing into a forbidden relationship. It’s exhilarating, intense, and shiny and brand new, evoking sorrow and satisfaction among the heartthrobs.…
Love is a very difficult thing to understand. Love can also be an extremely powerful force that no one has control over. In the play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, he suggests that when a person is blinded by love they can end up ignoring other relationships. By having many characters die by being killed or committing suicide, Shakespeare shows that love can cause people to act irrationally. Finally Shakespeare advocates that whether the relationship is romantic or not it is equally as strong.…
The prince slays the mighty dragon with his sword, and he and his princess live happily ever after. I, like so many others, have grown up fantasizing about fairytale endings. When good triumphs over evil, and the courageous hero defeats the ferocious beast. As a little girl, these stores taught me to believe in myself, and to be the hero of my own story.…
Love causes Oblivion Love is made out across the world to be a feeling like no other. But is that the entire truth, is love all good things? Along with love comes many other intense emotions.…
Young love is a common subject used by teenagers lately. They may understand the definition from reading out of a dictionary, but at such a young age you cannot fully comprehend the emotion of love. Romeo and Juliet are a strong example of young love, for they may think they're in love. In reality, they were truly an example of being infatuated with each other, leading to their demise for each other. Between Juliet saying how she wishes to no longer be a Capulet or Romeo and Juliet getting married in the few hours they knew each other, this is young love.…
Love: an aspect of life both complex and simple, both mysterious and apparent, both evasive and accessible. Great thinkers have mused over this concept, its different forms and effects, for centuries. Many ask the question of love's role in happiness: is it truly necessary? Both Plato and Aristotle argue the importance of love in attaining true contentment. However, the different forms they describe carry different connotations and different levels of influence on life.…
The Little Mermaid is a Disney movie about a young mermaid named Ariel. In the movie Ariel experiences several different conflicts throughout the entirety of the movie. Some of these conflicts could have been avoided if the characters would have used a non-judgemental tone/calm voice, clarified their real intentions, and established mutual purpose. Throughout the movie Ariel engages in flight many times when it comes to conflicts, though on the rare occasion she does choose fight. On the other hand, other characters such as her father, Sebastian, and Ursula engage in fight in over half of the conflicts they face.…