Lust

Metamorphoses is a narrative poem written by the Roman poet Ovid in the early first century BCE. The book focuses on the creation of the world and is based upon Roman myths and legends. Throughout the poem, many different types of lust are described within the myths. These varieties of lust include the craving for revenge, the longing for possessions, and the sexual desire for a person. The yearning for revenge is one of the driving parts of the book and is found multiple times, including Juno’s revenge on Io and Procne’s retaliation towards Tereus. Another variety is the hunger for power and possessions, demonstrated in Ajax and Ulysses’s arguments for the Armor of Achilles. The libido for a person is seen in the stories of Echo and…

Lust at First Sight There is a thin line when it comes to lust and love. Love and lust are often confused because they seem to be alike. In reality Lust and Love are two completely different relationships. The relationship between these words certainly vary in interpretation. A person that lusts desires sexual and sensual pleasure while a person in love sees beyond physical appearance and simply takes the person for who they are underneath. Lust and Love tend to develop several ways to compare…

The difference between true love and lust can be a difficult topic to explain. Love is having an intense feeling based on a whole of a person and their traits, while lust is only an attraction for one or a few of their traits. Twelfth Night takes place in the imaginary region of Illyria, which is on the Adriatic Coast. This region is ruled by the love sick Duke Orsino. The title is a reference to the Twelfth Night of the Christmas celebration(January,6) when The Three Wise Men gave gifts to…

Love and lust. These two things travel closely together and even sometimes overlap. Confusing these two is a common misconception that happens with even the most popular of works. An example of one of these works is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It was originally published in 1597 and is arguably Shakespeare’s most known plays. Even in pop-culture today there are still new renditions of this play coming out including the big screen. It seems to be able to reach every age of…

Alighieri’s Inferno is a prime example of karma which conveys to the audience what to avoid when “following one’s bliss,” an idea of Joseph Campbell. Campbell believes that myths “won’t tell you what makes you happy, but it will tell you what happens when you begin to follow your happiness, what the obstacles are that you’re going to run into,” which is clearly demonstrated by the myths in “Canto 5” of the Inferno (Campbell 373). In “Canto 5” of the Inferno, Dante makes allusions to myths to…

Though Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, two of Russia’s greatest authors, differ greatly, many of the themes that show up throughout their writings are strikingly similar. Perhaps the most notable of these shared themes is the concept of lust, strong sexual desire. This idea can be traced throughout many, if not all, of both authors’ works, large novels and short stories alike. Both authors seem to agree that, under many circumstances, lustful feelings and actions are terribly sinful and lead…

The seven deadly sins are known as avarice, sloth, envy, lust, gluttony, pride, and wrath. Each of these seven deadly sins were briefly demonstrated in the article titled, The Onion. The first of the deadliest sins that were described in The Onion article was pride. The definition of pride can be referred to as “the engine of achievement”, meaning that it is the great feeling of power you get when you achieve a goal (The Seven Deadly Sins). An example of pride provided in The Onion states “My…

Imagine being stuck in a society that suppresses all feelings of love and replaces them with lust. In Brave New World, any time a person begins to feel outside of the framework of society, they are conditioned to take a drug called Soma. Huxley portrays love as a deep, affectionate, long-term connection between two people, while lust is a sexual desire that comes from temporary and momentary feelings. Lenina expresses feelings of lust towards Bernard and John, but John and Bernard are capable of…

The seven deadly sins are lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. Lust is an uncontrolled desire, gluttony means to consume too much, greed it to never be content, sloth is to be physically lazy, wrath is and uncontrolled rage, envy is to be jealous, and last but not least pride which means to think your better than others in other words your ego is to big but pride can be used as good or bad depending on how you use this terms. There were seven deadly sins that were used though…

of love, thoughts of tenderness, kindness, and romance often arise with it. Nevertheless, these feelings can be confused with worship and passion, which creates an absence of love and the birth of lust. In fact, hundreds of authors have been known to play with the idea of love versus lust. Whether through poems, plays, or prose, the…