The myth of love I would like to use for this report comes from the movie When Harry Met Sally. The movie is a romantic comedy that portrays a relationship between a man (Harry) and a woman (Sally) who realized that they both maintain opposite point of views on life, especially relationship between men and women. Harry maintains his belief that it isn’t possible for a men and woman to be friends while Sally argues otherwise. Throughout the movie they both portray different approaches on the myth of love. Harry and Sally relationship shifts from casual acquaintances that are not ford of each other and ending in a marriage rooted in a deep and meaningful friendship which demonstrated how these two characters were able to develop their relationship over time and somehow persuade themselves into a different cultural truth value about love.
In this movie, we are being reminded of our modern society belief that lovers (men and women) can’t be friends which explores the point of view men …show more content…
We believe that lovers must deeply know each other to the point where they become one person as a whole (not physically); this is similar to classical mythology belief as well, for example in the King James Bible (book of genesis 2:24) it says “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh”. In my opinion this verse summarizes what Ovid does with the myth of love in the metamorphoses, when Ceyx and Alycone are both turned into a birds as it says in book XI “The gods changed both to a birds; the same strange fate they shared, and still their love endured, the bonds of wedlock bound them still, though they were birds” The fact that they were changed into bird shoes just how much they became one as a whole through
In this movie, we are being reminded of our modern society belief that lovers (men and women) can’t be friends which explores the point of view men …show more content…
We believe that lovers must deeply know each other to the point where they become one person as a whole (not physically); this is similar to classical mythology belief as well, for example in the King James Bible (book of genesis 2:24) it says “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh”. In my opinion this verse summarizes what Ovid does with the myth of love in the metamorphoses, when Ceyx and Alycone are both turned into a birds as it says in book XI “The gods changed both to a birds; the same strange fate they shared, and still their love endured, the bonds of wedlock bound them still, though they were birds” The fact that they were changed into bird shoes just how much they became one as a whole through