Essay About Love

Throughout history humans have been on a search for the answer to one question, what is love? This question can being answered in many ways because there are many situations where love reigns. In Plato’s The Symposium a woman named Diotima, who is a philosopher educates Socrates about the ways of love and she answers this question in a way that challenged the perception of love that was conceived all throughout history. Love is not an object but a lover in search for beauty. In her speech she…

The play, As You Like It by Shakespeare, is a medieval love comedy. Orlando, one of the main characters, falls deeply in love with Rosalind. However, they both have different perspective of love. Orlando has to demonstrate that he is very in love with Rosalind. In the play, there’s a conflict of realistic love and fantasy love. On the side, Orlando seems to have problematic relationship with his brother, Olivier. Oliver does not like Orlando due to his personality and people’s perspective of…

Language”, “If it is possible to cut out a word, always cut it out”(p. 182). Thus, I chose the passages in the sentence task for revision and extension part, both of them were the analysis of love poems. One paragraph is the analysis of William Butler Yeats’ love poem, another is the analysis of Anthony Ma’s love poem (SHEN, 2016, par. 1). I hope through the revision, the analysis could be concise with fewer and shorter words but clearly conveys my meaning. Additionally, the passages did not…

Love can be a double edged sword. On one side the daydreaming and the restless nights thinking about them is wonderful. On the other end with rejection comes hardships and the feeling of depression. In the short short, “Witches Loves” by 0. Henry the author shows that jumping to conclusions fueled by love can lead to giving up on love and all feelings of love. Miss Martha’s sympathetic heart assumes everything about the man. For example, the man only bought stale bread, “Fresh bread was five…

The concept of love in our society can be seen through the combination of a biological and evolutionary perspective. In terms of the biological aspect, the release of different hormones creates an emotional connection and satisfies sexual pleasure, and through the evolutionary view, it provides a way through which individuals can maintain security and pave way for the structure of a family to raise children. In dystopian novels, however, writers take the normative images of values integral to…

speak about love, as male characters, such as Orsino, articulate about love in a tactical and orchestrated way, while female characters, such as Viola, speak about love freely and off the cuff. These display of love, convey that male characters in the play view love as a goal that must be achieved and to do so must plan how to gain love. However for female characters love is a consequence of character and actions, it is not the goal for the female character to fall in love but rather, love just…

It is no secret that Love conquers all, but what seems to spark a big controversy these days is whether love is really “love” or just a mutual attachment. To analyze the similarities and differences, one must first understand what each of them is. The website www.merriam-webster.com/ defines love as a strong or constant affection for someone or something and attachment as an affectionate feeling for someone or something. There is only a slight difference between these two definitions and that is…

Introduction Love and happiness are universal fact that is achieved by ethical life. Love and happiness interlink each other. Presence of love indicates happiness in life and through happiness we can lead a healthy and strong life. Love can be with any human being, animal and other species. But love with someone fist want love with oneself. If we love with own self then we able to love world. These feeling of loved and being love makes us happy. Most people thing that love and happiness is when…

Unrestrained Love Leading to an Individual's Downfall Unrestrained love and passion has been displayed throughout the world. In real life, TV dramas, and in our readings, this love and passion has caused unwanted outcomes and unhappiness. Unrestrained love and passion can drive people and society to unwanted fate. Although the reasoning behind acts of this type of love and passion can sometimes be understood, the end results can be unpleasing. In the story of Beowulf, the unrestrained love and…

well known shrew is forced upon marriage to a man named Petruchio to whom she does not love, while her sister is being courted by numerous men that have high admiration for her. The story goes; Katherine learns to love Petruchio as a husband and will delight him with respect. Katherine’s sister Bianca marries a man that she loves, but behaves like a shrew to him once married (Shakespeare). This must mean that love is too fragile and is corrupting the marriage system. Devotion towards a spouse…