Everlasting Love

Phaedrus believed that Love was the eldest of the Gods, and that made him the mightiest. His viewpoint on love is that when a person falls in love he/she should do anything to make the object of their love happy. I still believe that his theory on love can be applied to the modern day, now more so than before. As Phaedrus explains, Chaos is the only god that is older than Love. That makes sense because after Chaos, Love is needed to get things back on track. The world now is full of…

and walked downstairs, as she continued towards the kitchen she felt the smell of eggs tickle her nose and could hear the sizzling of bacon. She began to wonder how life could get any better, until she realized today was the choosing day. She was in love with Luke. He was tall, muscular with soul seeking eyes, and a heart of gold. Some of the other men her mother and father had in mind were very…

How love alters characters in Much ado about nothing. In Much Ado about nothing, love is explored through the depiction of the different types of relationships. Shakespeare contrasts loyalty and brotherly love to romantic love and instant love, under the umbrella of the Messina community. The biggest change in attitude as a result of love is Benedick and Beatrice’s change in relationship and ideas about marriage. The play uses comic techniques such as metaphor and hyperbole to exaggerate the…

themselves. Rarely, do they get to play a role other than the obedient housewife, or the emotional girlfriend. Strong female protagonists, despite their scarcity, do exist. But even the strongest women often turn into love struck, bashful little girls when they meet and fall in love with a man, and the rebellious red headed little mermaid is no exception. The little mermaid’s change of character is far more obvious in Disney’s version of the tale. While the original little mermaid is quiet and…

contrasting style between tenderness and brutality. The term “love letters” has connotations of tenderness, adoration, loyalty, deep, soft feelings of warmth and goodness of human nature. But as seen throughout the poem, the father is a desperate, depressed man who is more accurately described as pleading for his wife’s return. In the letters, the father would “beg, / Promising to never beat her / Again.” (lines 7-9). Komunyakaa uses the term “love letter” as a foil to enhance the contrasting…

In both Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Corpse Bride (2005), the characters were relatively ‘different’ from those that they were surrounded by, therefore making them strange and considerably odd in the eyes of people they came in contact with- there was sympathy, pity, indifference, sacrifice, attraction, jealously, repulsion, understanding, fear, and prejudice surrounding both these characters as they discovered the real world. Both films are extremely fairytale-like, which…

Marching up the sidewalk, Luke tore through the door and into the Pizza Hut lobby taking his seat at a long white table. With his three best friends by his side several bowls of ice cream were placed in front of him. Mentally preparing himself for what was about to go down he waited patiently for the other contestants to take their seats. Almost a half an hour later he gallivanted out of Pizza Hut, resembling a small boy receiving a new toy car. He bounced up and down sporadically high fiving…

important it is to love others and ourselves, as God taught us to. Throughout Units 1 and 2 in our Love, Choices, and Vocations class, we learned how to strengthen and better our relationships with God, others, and ourselves through love. In every human being, there is an inner voice or center of peace that inspires us and calls us to a particular way of life. For many people. this inner voice, or ‘vocation’, is God speaking to them and telling them what He…

In Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident, Christopher is struck with the discovery of his “dead” mother who was located in London most of his life. The betrayal of his relationship with his father results in his love being transmuted into fear, which is successfully conveyed when Christopher states, “dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies” indicating that dogs are a symbol of honesty. He later runs away from his father uttering with terror the repetition,…

filled with intricate and complicated tale of love, lust and longings. The part that may be the most intriguing is about the characters being realize by Junot Diaz’s from the viewpoint of an immigrant, charming the readers with their side of the story living in the same community as us. A tale that tells us about their life including their struggles and yearning for their home country when life is harsh towards them, as well as the story about their love and lost. A compilation of stories about…