Love Story

Love comes and goes naturally, sometimes unexpectedly. Although love is one broad subject, every individual has its own unique love story. Through the works of literature read in class, one thing that most of the novels had in common is love. From loving a family member to a person of interest, each type of love faces its own challenge. Three original works that clearly displays their own unique idea of love are Kebra Nagast, Ramayana, and Tale of Genji. In these three works love faces…

fact these stories provide a false perception of a relationship narrative. The love story of that in The Tale of Tulisa has been repeated throughout history by different cultures to portray a similar yet unique message to women of different time and cultures. The plotline of this folktale provides the basis for those as the Iron Heinrich folktale in Germany, accompanied with the movie The Princess and the Frog of Disney’s “American” culture. These three works all depict a similar story, moreover…

What is love? Is it a feeling, or is it something much more than that? No one knows what love is or how to explain it, making it one of the most popular themes throughout the literary world. For example, in Ovid’s epic entitled “Metamorphoses,” he uses love many times as a recurring theme, and each time he uses it in a unique way. One of those being the story of Apollo and Daphne; where Cupid shot Apollo with his magic love arrow which caused Apollo to become entranced by the river nymph named…

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not man the less, but nature more.” This quote by George Gordon Byron depicts how beautiful nature is and how much he loves and admires it. Unfortunately, nature has become less respected as years have passed. Early authors of the Puritan and Romantic Era, with works including “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” by Anne Bradstreet;…

The semi-barbaric princess sent her lover to the door with the hungry tiger in Frank Stockton’s “The Lady, or the Tiger?” The princess shows eternal love, but also shows jealousy and hatred for the lady behind the door. Stockton put many clues in the story, to lead the readers to thinking that the tiger coming out of the door. The princess’ eternal love is shown in the quote, “Would it not be better for him to die at once, and wait for her in the blessed regions of the semi-barbaric futurity?”…

and Winter dreams, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, reveal that love can be both wonderful and unsatisfying. These novels show that love isn’t always what you think it’s going to be. Winter Dreams is almost like a outline of The Great Gatsby. The characters in both novels share common characteristics. Also, the themes are similar to each other. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby fell in love with Daisy. Daisy and Gatsby were madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, Gatsby has to leave Daisy…

Both of the selected stories center around two young men who are experiencing crushes. In each story, they are coming to grips with the consequences they beget by trying to woo the girl they are attracted to. The similarities of the stories “A&P” and “Araby” are offset by the time period in which they are written, and this changes the process that each character goes through when they are chasing their love. The courtship process, or lack thereof, shows that each character was willing to…

In the story “The Lady with the Dog” there is a comparison and contrast with both Anna and Dmitri. At the beginning of the story it is apparent how both characters personalities are different yet they have a similar love life, which is that they do not actually have real love for their loved ones. The difference is Dmitri actually acts out and cheats on his wife, the character of Dmitri in the story is portrayed as a player who uses women and sees them as the lower race. Anna on the other does…

Romeo and Juliet is by far the most famous love story in English stories. Love in the story, is the most dominant theme. William Shakespeare has an interesting view toward philosophy about young love. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's persona about young love consists of the forcefulness of love, love as a cause of violence, and fickle love or as we call it, puppy love. In the timeline of the play, the young couple constantly defy the social aspects of the world. For example, families:…

anything and everything to be with her. Well, when I think about love and what a person would do for love two stories come to mind, and they are "Pyramus and Thisbe" by Ovid and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. These characters in the story have many obstacles, barriers, and limitation that tried to challenge the love between two people. To begin with,"Pyramus and Thisbe" and Romeo and Juliet both had a arduous time being in love because their parents didn't approve or like the…