Essay About Love

to win over their love but will fail in the end. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, talks about the West Egg and East Egg in the luxurious time of the 1920’s. The novel revolves around the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan. This forbidden love is able to portray Fitzgerald’s message in the novel that money can buy an individual popularity in society but not sacrificial love. In society, money cannot get a person, sacrificial love. Leading in from a…

Our current social paradox of love has left many us 20 somethings that are looking for their “forever thing” quite disappointed. From high school sweethearts, college romances, night life hook-ups and tinder dates, we’ve managed to become the masters none and the Jackass’ of them all. Nothing seems to work, possibly because the same people we meet on Tinder are the same people attending we're universities and hitting the town with. Our perspective and mentality on love is up for discussion, not…

ideas are professed about love and what is acceptable to do while in love with someone. Similarly, around the time period when knights were prominent, there were a group of thirty-one rules that were referred to the rules of courtly love. The rules of courtly love were used as a general guideline to love, determining whether ones love was true or even permitted according to the standards of the time period. Although these rules were considered to exemplify the proper way to love, many characters…

Love is an intense feeling endured by many individuals, for it unleashes a great deal of hormones and chemicals that cannot be resisted. At its zenith, love seems to control the mind like a drug. When we fall head over heels for someone, our brain signals feelings of pleasure, closeness, and comfort. According to an online article, it states that that complex organ inside our head is hardwired to want love and keep love at all costs—a response that has been crucial to the survival of our…

Sight There is a thin line when it comes to lust and love. Love and lust are often confused because they seem to be alike. In reality Lust and Love are two completely different relationships. The relationship between these words certainly vary in interpretation. A person that lusts desires sexual and sensual pleasure while a person in love sees beyond physical appearance and simply takes the person for who they are underneath. Lust and Love tend to develop several ways to compare them with the…

Furthermore, perfect love is for both relationships between individuals and relationships between aspirations. I agree with Aristophanes’ eulogy that love is for a relationship between humans, both of body and mind, as we all search for our other halves in order to become complete once again and thereby regaining their prized possession of love (Plato 27). Though I believe that Aristophanes’ concept lacks because it fails to include another important aspect of love’s purpose: aspirations.…

Romeo and Juliet is by far the most famous love story in English stories. Love in the story, is the most dominant theme. William Shakespeare has an interesting view toward philosophy about young love. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's persona about young love consists of the forcefulness of love, love as a cause of violence, and fickle love or as we call it, puppy love. In the timeline of the play, the young couple constantly defy the social aspects of the world. For example, families:…

In book four, Dido’s love for Aeneas was growing more passionate than ever. She longed to be near him to hear his voice, to be able to touch his skin. She wanted to tell him how she felt but was afraid her voice would crack mid-sentence. She had ordered a feast to be held for Aeneas and his men. After the feast, everyone had gone to bed leaving her feeling lonely and distraught. She sat in the sofa where Aeneas had been sitting only to reminisce the memories of him that had only happened moments…

(1) Love and Mercy the 2014 film directed by Bill Pohlad follows the life of the beloved Beach Boy Brian Wilson. (2,5) A shot in the film that captures the essence of the motion picture is pool shot where Brian has his eyes wide open bubbled streaming out of his nose as if he is drowning, which could ironically foreshadow his brother’s drowning not depicted, but mentioned in the movie. This is the essence of the film because Brian his entire life was drowning under the pressure of his stardom…

Brett and Jake love each other however since Jake can not have sex, they refuse to have a romantic relationship. Jake says that he finds his war wound funny and he rarely thinks about it. As they head to a café to drink, Brett asks Jake to kiss her once more before they arrive. At the café, Jake and Brett again run into their friends. A Greek man finds interest in Brett and they make an appointment to meet the next day. Jake does not see Brett and Cohn for a while. He receives a card from Brett…