Love

The Phantom of Love Love, an endless phenomenon that lasts even after death, entwines itself into a being at the first sign of life. Whitman and Dickinson, two famous poets of the 19th century, have similar views on the love of a child to its mother, the love of a friend, and the love of a spouse always being omnipresent and blossoming within oneself. These famous poets portray the common ideal of omnipresent love through the works labeled as “Love is anterior to life” and “As if a Phantom…

Furthermore, the typology of love demonstrated by Aunty Ifeoma does more than to unite people around them. Another important role played by this type of love is to enlighten people all around and liberate them from their ignorance. To demonstrate how love enlightens people, analysis of the lives of Kambilki and Jaja should be brought to fore. When both Kambilki and Jaja arrived Aunty Ifeoma’s home, they never fully understood what affectionate love was. The little affectionate love that existed…

When one meets her true love, the red string of fate ties the two lovers together for a lifetime. No matter where the two lovers are, the time and distance between them, their love for each other is never forgotten. “Love Must Not Be Forgotten” by author Zhang Jie, “My Heart Will Go On” written by Wilbur H. Jennings, and Kimi No Na Wa by artist Hizuki Ranko all relate to the message about remembering love and holding onto certain mementos that represent their love. Even through the hardest…

When a person is in love, they tend to get butterflies in their stomach and go weak in the knees. Many people believe that romantic love is like a drug. When you’re loved in return, it is easy to see how love can be an addiction. In the Penn and Teller episode titled “The Business of Love”, we learned about certain people who think they have all the answers to other people’s love lives and so naturally they prey on those who are looking for love. In our society, in particular, movies and…

Thwarted in love, or what he thinks is his love for the Countess Olivia, Orsino opens the play with a sweet but cynical speech about the inconstancy of love. He basically says it’s just like appetite—what tastes good for a while then begins to be “not so sweet now as it was before.” He doesn’t compare love to any higher emotion or even hint that it has a spiritual dimension or the possibility of constancy. Indeed, the Duke even suggests that a person in love can become a connoisseur of his or…

In Hemingway’s novels, love and war is a common theme as it shows readers love in a different situation; one of danger and jeopardy. A Farewell to Arms is a widely known novel featuring this as Fredric Henry and Catherine Barkley share a romance during WWI. During war there are many hardships that come along with a relationship. There are unpredictable events such as ambushes, fatalities on the battle field, and many more. These things can get in the way of a relationship as with so much going…

marriage Hero and Claudio are very much the ideal couple in the Elizabethan period, hero a convention dutiful lady and Claudio a young Elizabethan lord who is romantic and falls in love at first sight. While Beatrice and Benedick do not follow the conventional courtly couple, who have views against love but ultimately falls in love in the end. Beatrice and Benedick would be seen as the ideal couple in a modern perspective, as Beatrice is independent and both have views against arranged and…

everyone assumes that marriage is a sign of love and commitment, but marriage doesn’t always mean that the couple loves each other. In the play Othello, the relationship between Emilia and Iago is hardly considered love. Emilia is a strong and independent woman, but she still wants to satisfy her husband. Iago, on the other hand, is just using Emilia to get what he wants. Emilia and Iago might be married, but they do not truly love each other. True love means that a person would never cheat,…

with the expatriates. They are no longer able to love to fulfill the pre-war ideal of romance and commitment. Avoiding any meaningful dialogue, they talk around their war wounds and drink themselves into oblivion. They experienced the lowest downfall of humanity and it removed their ability to feel compassion or be human at all. 2. Jake was emasculated by the war. He lacks the ability to be intimate with any woman, including Lady Brett whom he loves. He is insecure with his manhood, feeling…

It is these three Christian themes of love towards God, free will, and suffering that are significantly present in Dante’s Purgatorio. Dante Aligheieri was an Italian poet from Florence, who wrote his most famous poem, the Divine Comedy, in exile. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy for his idealized love, Beatrice, who appears in the trilogy as a goal for Dante. He traverses Hell, Purgatory, and even into Heaven to find and be with Beatrice. In the first part of his poem, titled Inferno, Dante, led…