Courtly love

twenty-first century, love is an ever present emotion that accelerates the drive to reproduce. Love is the basis for budding relationships, whether they be familial, friendly, or romantic. Scientists, philosophers, authors, and even college students have tried to get to the core of what love is, how it is experienced, and whether it is biologically present or able to fluctuate or change. Through Plato’s Symposium, The Romance of Tristan and Isolt, Helen Fisher’s novel Why We Love, and various…

importance of their refuge in the forest in “As You Like It”: “The play thus participates in the rich tradition of Renaissance pastoral literature in which the rustic world of forest and field offer an alternative to and a sanctuary from the urban or courtly milieu to which it is contrasted” (377). Many use this new found freedom as an opportunity to explore and discover themselves in ways they were previously unable. Characters take on different identities, genders, and erotic possibilities.…

relative morality and ethics. Prince Hal embodies a moral absolute view of the world, and in this case I want to mention that even when Prince Hal described Falstaff as a white bearded Satan and misleader of youth, he does not want to hurt him, he loves him but hates what he reminds him of in…

The concept of gender helps to understand that the inequality between sexes is not the result of biological difference but is socially produced and examines the various way in which women suffers systematic social injustice. Pride and prejudice can be read as a novel written in a style very different from that of the sentimental genre and containing a fine understanding of feminine identity, romantic desires and gender relations as shaped by social context. The famous opening sentences of Pride…

Amiens means that who cares to stay with me in happy idleness under the green tree, and who loves to hear and enjoy the sweet melody of wild bird, can come here because here he will find no enemy but only the thing which would trouble them is winter and rough weather. Soon after, lords who is with banished duke share some talk about the Jaques…

Love is a neurological state created by the brain not just an emotion. The part of the brain that love is centered works like it would if someone was on drugs. One could still consider love as an emotion. Every feeling that can be felt by someone like anger, happiness etc. are felt when someone tells themselves that they love or are in love with someone. All of which triggers a part of the brain. People describe love in many different ways. “Philosophers and poets have pondered the nature of…

Is Fair In Love And War Or So They Say Humans are a complex species; a species where circumstances and emotions dictate their actions. Love is perhaps a humans most prevalent motivator, the majority of their actions being guided by the need to love and receive love in return. A person will spend their entire life looking for love; whether it be in a friend, family member, lover, or a personal god. Certain circumstances in a persons life can dictate their ability to give and receive love. War has…

Beast cares so much for Belle and he proves his the deepest love with a great tragedy ending. The part he says, “the poor beast who want to prove their love can only grovel on the ground, and die”. I cannot possibly imagine how much he loves Belle. I also think it is a brilliant idea that comparing Belle’s two sisters with Belle because audience can have a general idea of Belle as a gentle and loving girl in the beginning. I really love this movie not only because of interesting characters but…

of East Asia (p.1322). In contrast to many poems in the “Airs of Domain” that propagated Confucianism, “Fishhawk” is a simple love poem. The poem revolves around a young man who was “tormented by his desire for a girl”(p.1322). While this poem is labeled as a “romantic folk song”(p.1322), the good use of literary elements, syntax, and language added a bit of tint to the love story. The author used a series of literary elements throughout the poem. The first sentence of the first stanza, “The…

On all the disney shows they walk off in the sunset to live happily ever after is the true in reality? Most of us love the thought of only getting married one time to our best friend/ true love but as time has shown it is getting harder and harder to find that one person. My parents got divorced when I was a seven they have both remarried and are one hundred times happier they can be best of friends now…