Short Essay About Love

abounding number of people try to control people to get what they want, but are they really successful? In A Midsummer Night's Dream by WIlliam Shakespeare, the main theme is control. Egeus controls Hermia telling her to marry Demetrius, or die. Since she loves Lysander they run away together to escape the control. Helena finds out and tells Demetrius and they run after them. Soon, Puck and Oberon starts tooling around and creating more problems. In the end, everyone is allowed to marry who they…

“The “Carpe Diem” of Time, Love, and Life?” Time is in control of all people's life, because time and death are synonymous with each other. In the two pieces, Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress” and the Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem (sonnet), “I Shall Forget You Presently My Dear”, have similar themes of “carpe diem” and how love needs to be nurture in the here and now. Love can fall into this trap of being lifeless and unsatisfying, which can cause problems in the relationship…

Book Report on “LOVESTORY” Lovestory, is a novel for all the romantic heads. It is a story of two college students, oliver and Jennifer,who madly fall in love with each other and get married several days after graduation. Oliver, the Harvard hockey player, is at times short-tempered and impulsive but at other times extremely emotional and sensitive. For instance, in the beginning chapters, Oliver receives a penalty from the referee after insulting Canadian players from Cornell University. This…

Kate Chopin provokes and inspires our thoughts to seek for more. She was one step further from her generation and she knew that her writings are too controversial for them. Even though she wrote The Storm in 1898, she never planned to publish this short story because she knew it was…

The “Gift of the Magi” written by O. Henry is a short story that captures the true essence of love. The story is about a wife named Della, who finds herself in a dilemma when she had been saving up for months, but still did not have enough money to get her husband Jim a gift. Jim and Della own two items that are of substantial value, Jim's gold watch and Della's hair. To get Jim a present, Della decides to cut off her hair. After cutting her hair and selling it, Della takes the money and buys a…

and women show an inability to properly communicate. As for how serious this “battle” is, the characters seemingly do not stand to lose much. The men do have vows to keep, but they are easily worked around once the men realize that they are all in love. After these vows are dismissed, the men enjoy this battle as a game more than anything else; the same holds true for…

wage at a fast food joint so that I may take the odd PA job and craft short films as an independent hobby.…

In the short story “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the couple, Aylmer and Georgiana, show signs of an unstable and unloving relationship through their interactions. Aylmer is an old scientist while Georgiana is a beautiful young lady. Aylmer and Georgiana start their relationship with major differences, and this leads to many more difficulties in their marriage. Aylmer, as a scientist, is constantly focused on his work, and he rarely takes the time out of his day to focus on his wife.…

two chapter 2, Berenice and F. Jasmine have a different conversation than usual. The conversation is about love and Berenice brings up the topic about “queer” love, in other words, homophobic affection. F. Jasmine doesn’t avoid the conversation, instead, she is intrigued by it. Berenice introduces a person named, “Lily Mae Jenkins” to F. Jasmine. Lily Mae Jenkins is a man that fell in love with another man named, “Juney Jones”, but not only that Jenkins also conducted a sex change making him the…

the world was rebuilding and marriage was seen as a safe option, a way to move forward and start a life together. The main character of The Other Paris, Carol thinks of marriage as a security blanket rather than a lifelong commitment to the one you love, she accepts a proposal from a man named Howard, a man she hadn’t even known for three weeks…simply because she assumes that nobody…