An Essay About Love

Teenage love isn’t quite authentic, and Shakespeare’s portrayal of young love certainly doesn’t help its reputation. Grainer has argued that, “As far as many teenagers are concerned, love always seems to be in the air. But is it really love? I don’t think so. In many cases, it is a false love created by the media and music that influence teenagers’ way of thinking.” His argument is agreeable. By the media, teens are exposed to many different impressions of “love”. Popular television shows like…

The Role of Love and the Toll of Hate As discussed in the past several classes, rhetoric is mostly about the “Skill in using language effectively and persuasively” (Keith & Lundberg 3) whereas pathos is the “emotional state of the audience, as produced by a speaker or speech” (Keith & Lundberg 39). Martin Luther King Jr. expressed his feelings about love during his London speech to the Christian Action Group on December 7, 1964. Throughout the speech, King discusses the Philosophy that…

"Love is like the wind, you can't see it, but you can feel it." This quote by Nicholas Sparks demonstrates concepts in J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, because love is an abstraction of which is difficult to comprehend and obtain. The novel itself is composed of Holden Caulfield's three-day journey to New York City after being kicked out of Pencey which is a preparatory school his parents sent him to. In this colossal city he encounters many new as well as old acquaintances, and…

whose view of love changes due to the actions of both his mother and the woman he loved. Hamlet 's view of romantic love being a very important part of human relationship changes and is shown throughout the play. Due to the marriage between Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude, and his uncle, now known as King Claudius, has disgusted Hamlet and has permanently changed his opinion on how much romantic love matters in life. Hamlet, is now consumed by the outrageousness of his mother 's love for his…

Love Can Change It is known throughout pop culture that love is the only thing that can conquer all. However in Shakespeare's time love was something that was quite different than what we consider it today. In the 16th and 17th centuries love was a rarity in marriage. Love would either fade away or bring shame to a family. Shakespeare shows his time periods concept of love through the way he wrote the story line of Hamlet. Hamlet's love for Ophelia is true in the beginning but then weakens as…

In this essay I will be exploring how Shakespeare illustrates the theme of love in Romeo and Juliet with particular reference to Act one scene five and Act two scene two. The play has multiple types of love shown throughout, however in this piece I will be focusing on Romantic love, more specifically, the love between Romeo and Juliet. I find this category of love to often be more vividly expressed in writing, with the use of additional poetic techniques. Act one…

whether or not Hamlet truly loves Ophelia. Although, little evidence can argue that Hamlet’s love for Ophelia is unreal and that he is using her, the ending of the play located at the graveyard takes us right back to Hamlet’s sincere feelings for Ophelia. The play reveals more than one fact written that Hamlet’s feelings and emotions for Ophelia are believable. By going into detail of specific scenes of the play, it is best understood that Hamlet is indeed in love with Laertes sister, Ophelia…

Discuss the problem of love in Wuthering Heights and how it fits with relevant elements of Victorian literature. The individuals in Wuthering Heights were caught up in a rummage of obsessive passionate and domestic affairs, uncounted plenty brutal in traits. The characters in Wuthering Heights were caught between a love and hate within the Victorian literature. Given a sense that empathy of this unusual book is certainly looking great when it comes to undeniable friendship. Straight from…

When delivering his encomium to Love in Symposium, Plato’s Agathon genders this deity male and paints a very specific portrait of him. Comparing Love to the other gods, Agathon describes Love as “the youngest”1 and “the most beautiful and the best.”2 In addition to these virtues, Agathon also argues that Love is “bravest of them all,”3 because “he who has hold is more powerful than he who is held,”4 and Love has a hold on Ares, who is made subservient to Love through his feelings for Aphrodite.…

“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good” (Romans 12:9). If one were to claim to love another person, they would be considered a phony if that other being wasn’t always the first the person on their mind. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, love is portrayed as the reason every single person makes any conscious act. Love IS one’s drive and while different people have their own relationships and different interpretations of love, true love is sacrificial and sincere Gatsby…