Endless Love

Love is a very strong emotion, but unlike the beliefs of many, love does not always win. There are sometimes factors in people’s lives that are stronger than love. Louisa Ellis, a character in the short story “A New England Nun” is proof of this. While her fiancé Joe is away trying to make the fortune so that he can come back and marry her, Louisa falls into a particular routine. For fourteen years she follows her own routine. When Joe comes back, she is a changed person. In Mary Wilkins…

the unreliable world of love, Chaucer’s The Complaint of Mars brings out an aspect that we don’t see as often in the traditional love story. Instead of a happy ending with the respective main characters united in romance, Mars and Venus are driven apart by godly fate. Through Mars’ complaint that questions the purpose of love itself, Chaucer asserts that love has a destructive nature, causing endless misery once the pleasure and joy of it has passed. He also believes that love is used as a tool…

teach us how to love, but to also to be shown love. The Holy spirit, God’s passion for us, wants to come out from within. It desires to spread its light to others. It asks me to do the right thing when another is in need. It is the warm feeling I get, after holding the door for an extra 5 seconds, so another student can enter. The littlest thing, bringing the warmest fuzzy feeling inside. This retreat’s theme is rightfully titled what’s your choice. Who do you want to share your love with; for…

emotional poverty and the devastation of personal suffering. Adeline was unwanted, neglected and abused by her family. They constantly discarded her and tried to get rid of her. Adeline’s family treated her as if she was not worthy of their time, love and attention. School was her way to escape the suffering. But, it was always just a temporary relief, and always waiting for her the moment school was over “After school was let out in the early afternoon I waited with all the other first…

Life is a journey filled with endless opportunities that can lead to unimaginable destinations. The choices people make on a daily basis have an effect on the outcome in which they are anticipating. Many times what one expects is not what they receive. Most people believe they know what is best for them and have their ideal path planned out. However, in reality, what one desires is not always the outcome. Being open-minded to change is important in order to sufficiently handle those situations.…

Written in ballad stanzas, the verse - read today as a poem – pieces together conventional ideas and images of love in a way that transcends the "low" or non-literary sources from which the poem is drawn. In it, the speaker compares his love first with a blooming rose in spring and then with a melody "sweetly played in tune." If these similes seem the typical fodder for love-song lyricists, the second and third stanzas introduce the subtler and more complex implications of time. In trying to…

to social reclusion. In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff’s obsessive behaviour when in love causes others to distant themselves away from him as the aftermath of his lover’s death drives Heathcliff into insanity, which leads to an act of terror. Whereas in Fitzgerald works: he portrays the theme of love through the character Gatsby to convey the determent result of confusing love with lust. By being denied the love, Gatsby obsessively secludes himself trying to put pieces of his past together. The…

series of fantasies about how they are going to have a secret relationship and write to each other, he interprets all the action that Mrs. Das takes as the sign that she is interested in him as well, so he can continue to create the story about their love affair in his mind. Thus, when he finds out that she mistakes his job for a real doctor and just hopes “[he] can help [her] feel better” (Lahiri 65) from cheating on her husband by suggesting “some kind of remedy”(Lahiri 65), he feels insulted.…

is the ordinary mind of human suffering; an ordinary lady of the world with full of sorrow and pain. Also the Mother of Seven Sorrows is seen in her various capacities, in various stations of life carrying out her duties and obligations in selfless love. The pathos and pangs with which the mother role is presented reminds us of the universal nature of woman full of…

In this passage, Jesus tells his followers to love each other, just as Jesus had loved them. Thus, both the old and new commandment mentioned in 1 John 2:7-8 focus on this love for others. To place this commandment in its historical context, let us examine the likely audience of 1 John. The speaker of this passage was an elder in an early Johannine Christian community…