The Theme Of Love In Henry David Thoreau's 'Journal'

“Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy,” was a quote stated by Martha Beck. This quote conveys that with love comes the ability to be able to truly know a person or object. The ability to do this comes with times of analyzation. For example, when you decide you truly love that outfit you wore you came to that conclusion by analyzing the texture, color, style and in general all of it; without these judgements you wouldn’t have been able to reach that discovery. Henry David Thoreau’s piece the “Journal” states, “Love does not analyze its object,” this quote is wrong because you must analyze the object to determine your feelings towards it, in addition sometimes the things you love need to be fixed and to figure out what is wrong in the first place you must scrutinize the object, also analyzation of the object you love is necessary because love can be blinding. …show more content…
To illustrate this, picture a future partner for yourself; if you don’t inspect the person you don’t truly know if you love them. You can’t just choose any random person and decide that you love them without knowing what has created who they are. The steps in getting to know a person emotionally like that is that you must analyze who they are, for example their grooming habits, music, attitude, education, even eating habits. Without analyzing the person you wouldn’t have ever been able to know if you did love them truly or not. Consequences might have ended up with you wasting your time with someone or something you were never meant to. In short, it is necessary to analyze the object to determine if you do love it or not. Furthermore, sometimes the object you love may be