Love Never Dies

Though there are many definitions of a friend, you would only know that the true meaning of a friendship if you have ever had a friend. Friends generally come and go but true friends always stay. You never seem to feel alone or unimportant to someone when you have that true relationship with a friend. They put up with you and take care of you no matter what. In a way, Merriam Webster’s dictionary definition is true. It just does not explain it to the…

by Shakespeare,two families the Montagues and the Capulets constantly keep fighting throughout the play. Every young man in the Verona society was aware of their status and these young men would never fight below their rank. Benvolio is the nephew to the Montagues and he is a very trustworthy friend and counselor. Throughout the play, he mainly serves as the peacemaker. Tybalt is the nephew of the lord and the lady capulet, he is a very aggressive and troublesome character and he was the main…

aspects of this book that I did not like was the constant military jargon. There were many times where I would have to stop and look up specific words to see if it was referring to a location, weapon, person, or military phrase. As someone who has never been or spent a lot of time around people in the military I found it difficult to figure out the rank and what things like “506th regiment” were really refereeing to. I felt this story would have been easier to follow if I had a better…

In classical Greek mythology, Phaedra is the daughter of King Minos of Crete and Pasiphaë, and is the wife of Theseus. Due to a divine plan set into motion by Aphrodite, Phaedra falls in love with Hippolytus, Theseus’ son from another marriage, bringing about the destruction of both individuals. These themes of incest, fate, and adultery are all present in Desire Under the Elms. This play can be shown to have been influenced greatly by classical representations of this myth. Desire Under the…

lonely and defensive in a way that readers see it as mean and tart. In real life we should not judge or exclude someone because of a first impression, yet that is exactly what happens in this book. Curley’s wife is innocent and only wants someone to love her, for example, after she is killed, Steinbeck writes, 'The meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young'. The words…

soul left the Earth. She quickly reflected on her life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. Alice can hardly achieve anything she has written in her journal, and her life told that story. However, she did get married and had a beautiful family, got her dream job, and lived her life to what she thought was living to the fullest. Too late to realize, she wasn’t living at all- not one bit. Alice never pursued her love to travel, never made time to go on spontaneous trips…

Shakespearean tragedy King Lear depicts King Lear of Britain’s rollercoaster path from foolishness to wisdom and his eventual tragic downfall. Lear divides his kingdom amongst his three daughters: Cordelia who is banished for not correctly expressing her love for the King, and Goneril and Regan who turn against him in order to gain more power. Likewise, Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres tells a tale molded around King Lear where the owner of a 1000-acre farm named Larry agrees to hand it down to…

define love as a mental illness.” He claims that passion-love harbours various psychiatric disorders. Some disorders include: obsessive-compulsive disorder, when someone in love has obsessive thoughts about his or her beloved; clinical depression, when he or she experiences melancholy for his or her loved one; anorexia, when someone loses appetite as a result; panic disorder, when someone feels nervous before a date; bipolar disorder; people oscillate between manic and despair; and lastly love…

Nanny says that she 's already a woman. In the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” Janie Mae Crawford, who is the main character goes through three different relationships. She also learns some very, very valuable lessons about marriage, integrity, love, and happiness from her relationships specifically with Logan Killicks and Tea Cake. Janie was forced to marry Logan Killicks by Nanny, her grandmother. She wanted her to get married soon because she was worried that Janie would become “loose”…

Romeo and Jerry Everyone likes to believe that we are all our own individual people but Maya Angelou put it best when she says, “I note the obvious differences / between each sort and type, / but we are more alike, my friends / than we are unalike,” (Angelou “Human Family”). There are so many people out there it is hard to believe not one of us is like the other. This is also reflected in many characters in our literature. Take a look at the two works “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing and…