The Fantasticks is a show of love, loss, and pure comedy. It tells the story of young Matt (Pedar B. Bate) and Luisa (Clare H. Eisentrout), being kept at bay by a wall built by their two fathers, Hucklebee and Bellomy (Lynn Robert Berg III and Justin Ness). The two nevertheless devise a plan to meet and fall in love. Hucklebee and Bellomy, meanwhile, are patting each other on the back, for they have successfully fabricated a false feud between the families in order to attain a marriage between…
The best movie that I have ever seen was Brotherly Love, because it was organized well and easy-to-follow, and presents the main idea well. After watching Brotherly Love the reaction that you would get is to not trust people to easily because you never know who they really are. I would say to not trust people to easily is the overall reaction because in the movie a teenage girl Jackie, who was ambitious for music was sidetracked by love, she trusted this boy Chris, to easy and she did not know…
Blood or Love What keeps us alive, blood or love? In the poem “Love is Not All” written by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the author talks about two different perspectives on love and if it is needed for people to survive. In the first part, she talks about how love cannot keep a person alive or protect them from danger. But in the middle of the poem, she realizes that maybe love is desirable to fill a person’s heart with happiness. At the end of the poem, Millay questions herself about if love is…
Infatuation is momentary, fleeting, and characterized by an individual 's appearance. True love is long lasting, real, and portrayed by an individual 's personality. However, infatuation has the tendency to develop into true love over time. The texts Romeo and Juliet, “Why a Foolish marriage vow ”and“ What happens in our brains when we’re in love,” analyze this by providing specific examples. True love requires dedication from both individuals. These texts analyze this claim by contributing…
Many stories from ancient dialogues feature themes of love. These stories provide insight into ancient ideas about love. There are many differences and similarities between the way love was thought about in ancient times compared to modern times. In the ancient world Love can cause anything to happen. People go crazy, fighters refuse to fight, and love can even stop war. Medea shows ancient perspectives on love and gender. Medea goes crazy with revenge because Jason betrayed her. In Homer’s…
innocence of love, while Mel and Teri are the previously divorced, bitter (so it seems, when you get down to the deep roots of their relationship) couple who have scarring past experiences – the so called corruptive love laced with a hint of hazed mystery. If there ever was a perfect definition of love, the characters within the story defiantly do not exhibit it at all. They’re more or less the extremes of love, the low and high points. From the depressive, drunken stupor love…
Love. It’s an emotion that some can argue is one of our earliest as a child, and is instilled into our minds since we can remember. We were constantly encouraged to love our family and friends, but love is much more complex than we are taught because there are many different types of feelings that can stem from within it. Although it could make you feel content, fulfilled, and satisfied with your life, there are also some negative effects that can derive from it. It is the most compelling and…
In this interview research assignment, “What is love?” is the subject of this research. Our research subject is focusing on defining the meaning of love, the elements a relationship carries, and how to maintain one romantically. The dependent variable (purpose) of this interview is to understand more about the participants’ perspectives about romance in a loving relationship, how they define it, as well as discovering the different point of views between interviewees of different age and gender.…
Deep and long-lasting, loved-filled, true friendships can save more lives than any other relationship. This is where my story begins as it was the love of a friend that got me through the impossible and gave new meaning to the saying turning lambs into lions. The most frustrating thing about chronic illness is the loss of self that accompanies it. The diagnosis, or initial lack of it in my case, has a cruel way of turning your life upside down and backwards. Everything you knew about yourself…
people’s views of love and what love is to them. In Zora Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Janie looks for her love and what true love is to her ever since she first got married. As Janie lives her life, she experiences marriage with three men, each of them she initially believes she loves. However, as the story continues, she learns that she does not truly love to of them, while she does love her last marriage of Tea Cake. The novel explores Janie’s journey of love with…