About Love Essay

playing Juliet cries out to her Romeo, “My only love is my only hate”, (act 1. scene 5. 138). This play is all about the mix of love and hate. However, many argue that one is stronger. Love is stronger than hate because love is more passionate, love is wanted, and love produces peace and happiness. (7) Love is stronger than hate because of the passion that ensues. Passion is a very strong emotion, and that is evident in Romeo and Juliet. Their love at first sight is a beautiful and passionate…

“Love is in the air, every sight and every sound” John Paul Young sings. This song dates from 1978, and yet those lyrics remind us of the poems from the Romantic period. To echo the song, the poems used in this essay will have the word “love” in their titles. To me, when I'm told about “love” and “in the air”, I immediately think of the Romantic movement, that's why all the poems I chose are from this era. This line may lead us to many different interpretations, because the word “air” has a lot…

I will always believe in true love no matter how many times I have my heart broken. I go into a relationships telling myself I won’t fall in love, but I do it anyway. The power love has on people is highly underestimated. You can’t help who you fall in love with, so I don’t know why anyone tries to force or deny love. There is a delicate balance of cynicism and trust that can only be achieved through true love. If you have ever been in love, you know it is the most intoxicating, gratifying,…

Have you ever read “Much Ado About Nothing”, a play by William Shakespeare? This play is set in the early 1500’s in Messina, Italy, and is brought on after a small war between two brothers occurred. The two main characters Beatrice and Hero are cousins which have love stories that are intertwined with each other. Even though they both end up finding true love in the end of the play, their views of love are completely different. In the play “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare,…

Author Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” is a poem strictly about the love between her and her husband. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan during the 1600s. Puritans had a strict belief about marriage and, unlike other groups, they did not arrange a marriage between young people. They believed that marriages should consist of two people that truly love each other. Bradstreet did not let her age stop her, she got married at the age of 16. Anne Bradstreet wrote this poem…

Essay “An audience awareness about a subject that differs from what the characters know.” Dramatic irony shows up intensely in the playwrite from William Shakespeare named Much Ado About Nothing. It releases suspense in the minds of the reader, or audience and controls the audience so they are on the edge of their seat. The characters use many examples of dramatic irony to strike worry, and fear in the hearts of the readers. First of all, dramatic irony possess the brains of the readers and…

Many of us believe or think that we are in love with a certain someone or something you do in your everyday life. For me I have always questioned if I knew what love really meant or what love really felt like, like how do I know if I love this certain person or knew if I really love doing what I do. I have always thought about this question and I really want it answered so I decided to research this topic about how do I truly know if I love someone or something I do in my everyday life. During…

True Love, False Words, Or the Other Way Around? Honesty is one of the most important traits valued by society, but in reality, one might not be so honest about certain subjects. In William Shakespeare’s comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, many characters turned against their words for money, love, and revenge‏. Through the series of lies in the plot, Shakespeare explored the theme that one’s words are not always consistent with one’s actions and true feelings. Firstly, there is the false lover…

Helen Fishers perception about “the brain in love” was surprisingly interesting to say the least. She compared romantic love to that of a cocaine high however it is never ending. Romantic love is an obsession, it possesses you, you lose your sense of self, and you can’t stop thinking about another human being (Fisher, 2008). Helen brought up an interesting fact regarding the reason why we have such an intense craving for love. The reward system for wanting, motivation, craving your focus becomes…

Love can begin with puppy-love, and puppy-love is synonymous with infatuation. While they are very different things, the play does not make a distinction between the two. People ache for both experiences, and as we can tell from the outcome of Romeo and Juliet, can make people do extreme things. Eternal true love is idolized, and infatuation is something short-lived and crazily passionate. We must understand the difference in order to get what we really want. Love is tenderness and warmth…