Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

form the basis of one’s values and attitudes. Orson Welles’ revolutionary film Citizen Kane (1941) examines the psychologically damaging effects of internal conflict brought on by parental neglect and the morally corruptive impacts of an unchecked pursuit for power and influence. While a critical analysis may provide insight into these notions, the prevailing notion posited through the film is that the subjectivity of human experiences negates an absolute holistic understanding of an…

However this concept only dates back to the last couple of centuries, where the age of enlightenment pushed people to move away from dogmatic belief and think of their individual pursuit for spirituality, happiness, and love (Taylor, 2011). Before this revelation, the main purposes of a marriage were property and reproduction, for example woman of the Himalayan Mountains would marry all the brothers in a family, ensuring that the sacred amount of fertile…

on my life. They all comfort me, take me to a whole different world. These things can affect your life in a number of ways, but I believe that the most important aspect is that it could affect how you feel in any given situation. One thing that I love the most is watching films that inspire me and motivate to improve myself. I have learned that watching an inspirational movie with the simple victories in life…

suggests that “as the national debt continues to grow, the government [should] … learn how to spend and cut responsibly to protect the financial futures of American citizens.” With the economy in trouble, some see the American dream as something impossible to attain or even imagine. After analyzing the aspects of racial inequality and the economic problems of the American dream, we may still have trouble…

Love is a dynamic aspect of life, a foundation for relationships, a building block for society, among many other things. People are in love with love, or at least their ideas of love. There is a certain infatuation our society has involving love, so much so that there are industries, corporations, and organisations built around the theme of love. Love extends to the most unexpected corners of the world and is uncontrollable. One of the bases of love is connection. This connection can be shared…

He is the true portrait of a person marked by the war, not only mentally, but also physically. Because of his injury and the tragedies he saw in the war he lost his faith in God and has different morals and he shows them in the way he relates to other people and deals with his own problems. He is the only one among his group of friends that does not settle for the inactivity, but instead he is responsible for his work giving him a sense of compromise and duty. Hemingway depicts him as a war hero…

of our judgement on reality. It is we put in our minds that satisfies our perception of what is either perfect or most suitable. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby and others are the few to take note of in view of how they live their lives. Fitzgerald displays the pursuit of nonviable ideals concerning individuals of the 1920’s who long to fulfill their unreasonable morals. Often people become so tied up and twisted with their needs they forget the reality of their…

Lady Sonnets, and Petrarch’s Sonnets lead to the consistent conclusion that desire causes despair. Because it is human nature to desire that which is nearly impossible to attain, to desire is to set oneself up to fail. Accordingly, the lack of what one desires tends to take over one’s life as they continue their ceaseless search. Hopeless pursuit naturally leads to great despair. It might seem easier simply not to desire at all. However, the human experience of desire is as undeniable…

Explication The most notable quality of Warsan Shire’s For Woman Who Are ‘Difficult’ To Love is the theme of the poem, which manages to convey a sincere commitment to substance and urgent subject matter with a convincing universal intimacy. Poem Eleven depicts an informative lesson learned by a nameless woman while she experiences life with a man that deems her ‘difficult’ to love. The scenario is complimented as a narrator’s recollective perspective illuminates the ambiguous motif representing…

The Attainability of Love Plato’s Symposium offers a wide variety of viewpoints surrounding love: what it is, who it effects, and what it means to be achieved. The general understanding is that there are multiple forms of love, and whichever is engaged in will help dictate the status of the one engaging. The speeches of Aristophanes and Diotima present differing definitions of the purpose of love with varying levels of complexity. Each outlines a different path one must take in order to…