Eros

Love is composed of many powerful forces that are all consuming. Sappho, the poet in, If Not winter, writes about experiences in which, eros produces a gap between the subject and the desired object. With the use of vivid imagery and overt symbolism within fragment 105A, Sappho allows her readers to experience the uncontrollable emotions of desire and attraction that controls a person who is in love, even if it is impractical for her to have such feelings. This ultimately creates a tangible…

understand what love really is, there are three different words to describe the types of love: Eros, Phileo and Agape. Eros is used to describe a physical attraction to one another and sensual love people feel towards someone. Phileo is used to describe the love for our family, friends, and companions while Agape, is commonly known as, the unconditional love. Love is not only defined by its manner rather…

god of love, Eros, and his intricate character. Concepts of love brought up by other characters of the Symposium are reflected in Alcibiades desires and mirror the story that Alcibiades tells in his speech about his relationship with Socrates. Alcibiades seems so fixated on reaching the highest level of the ascent of Eros, beauty itself, that he is blinded and unable to see his own tragic vision of love. At the start of his speech, Agathon comments on the physical qualities of Eros, calling him…

values love, love shapes what 's good and in the Bible there are three different and enduring kinds of love: Eros, Agape and Philos. The first love is exponentially described in the Bible - Eros love. This specific kind of love is based off of the physical traits associated with sexual as well as emotional love. That endearing ‘click’ people hope to discover at least once in their lives. Eros goes off of strong feelings opposite sexes, even same sexes, have for one another. However,…

This love is called eros, the attachment that causes a lover to be blinded from any faults in their partner and can cause radical actions because of this. However, Romeo and Juliet dont have the only intense love story, eros love can also be found in Pyramus and Thisbe by Ovid, “My Shakespeare,” by Kate Tempest, and Duty by Pamela Berkman. When wanting to hear of a romantic…

Psyche was youngest and most beautiful daughter of a king and queen. She was so beautiful that her beauty out shown Aphrodite’s. This angered the goddess, who sent her son, Eros the god of love, to make Psyche fall in love with a monster. When Eros saw her, he was enamored with her and accidentally pierced himself with one of his arrows, falling in love instantly. Meanwhile, Psyche, while admired by all, was not truly loved by anyone and ended up being sad and alone. To solve this, she went to…

looked towards his sister. He felt betrayed. 'How could there be a were-angel in the family?', he thought to himself. The golden eyed wolf looked at the Lupus Deus pack menacingly, especially Aria, before shifting into his human form. There stood Alpha Eros, the most ruthless alpha on the island. He was the person in your nightmares. Aria felt her…

“civilization.” Freud states, “Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity” (Freud 118). Freud creates a model where the concept of natural energy (“libido” or “Eros”) is transformed and funneled into activities that allow for the creation of civilization and thus continues the battle between the “Eros” (Life Instinct) and “Thanatos” (Death). These forces can…

The myth of Psyche and Eros has many variants and one cannot pick out the true form of the story. The myth begins with Psyche, the most beautiful woman in the Grecian kingdom. Many men were entranced by Psyche’s beauty and would do anything to see her. This made Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, jealous. Aphrodite sent her son Eros, also known as Cupid, down to Earth to ensure that all men would not desire Psyche. Some variations of the story say that he saw her beauty and felt remorse for what…

Repeating once again Heracles’ vanquishing by his passion for this girl. Prior to the insight provided in Lichas’ revised utterance, Zeus was considered to have played a more prominent role, while eros remained a player in the background. However, when Heracles’ true incentives are brought to light, eros becomes a flourishing feature until the very last line. Both Conacher and Winnington-Ingram wrote scholarly interpretations of the play. Winnington-Ingram first addresses Zeus’ carelessness…