Lust murder

where an individual is speaking, My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning, the poems deal with two men who are in love with beautiful women, to which they kill. The men claim to love their other halves entirely, but why would they murder them? To readers, obsession comes to the mind first. In the two poems, both men perhaps kill their lovers out of jealousy and to gain power in their relationships; however, the man in My Last Duchess admits that he kills his wife, whereas the man…

Love is not always based on physical appearences. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, is a book that proves that you love someone for their heart. The two main characters are Louisa Clark and Will Traynor. Will Traynor was in a terrible motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed. Will and Louisa are an unlikely pair, yet they become romantically involved. Me Before You shows, that love is not just about what you see, but about what you feel on the inside. The book appealed to me because of the two…

Barbara Fredrickson challenges many of the preconceptions we have about love in “Selections from Love 2.0” of the New Humanities Reader. Love is traditionally thought of as being the connection which is shared only with the people closest to you such as, your family or your wife. Fredrickson refutes this and even says that love isn’t “exclusive lasting or unconditional” and dismisses these as wishes that people have about love. In fact, she believes that love is transient. Fredrickson’s belief…

Henri Nouwen once said, “What makes us human is not our mind but our heart. Not our ability to think, but our ability to love.” To me this quote not only directs towards the idea of just having the ability to love, but being capable of generating and accepting feelings as a whole. Although, love is one of the many necessary feelings we should be able to endure and execute, there are still so any more feelings and emotions that us humans explore on a day to day basis. One of the things that our…

The philosophical thought that developed in societal culture from the hero/saint concept and conversion has shifted unto a romantic and enlightenment pattern of change. Paving the way into the renaissance period of history, Saint Francis adds the concept of romantic love, the amor, person to person relationship that transcends the idea of Saint Peter’s concept of kenosis love, unconditional love. Joseph Campbell stated that the “love come from the meeting of the eyes was of a higher spiritual…

Yufan Li Instructor Maria Pagliari Expository Writing Section JO 13 September 2017 When love becomes a scientific concept Far too often, people regard love as longing, a kind of desire for more; a strong eagerness from others. As Barbara said in words, “Longing. You know the feeling. It’s that ache of sensing that something vital is missing from your life; a deep thirst for more. More meaning, more connection, more energy--more something”(FREDRICKSON 106).The similarity between love and longing…

Have you ever known or dated a person whom you saw as perfect and imperfect? An angel and a devil? Almost everyone has been in the same complicated relationship at some point in their lives. Poet Andrew Marvell describes this complex situation through the speaker in his poem “The Gallery” about the beloved Chlora. The complexity is communicated through the metaphor of the gallery itself which paints all the varied ways Chlora is interpreted. With the art varying in extremes the uncertain…

Love, according to Webster, is “a strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties.”. For some, this definition of love expresses the way people develop a mutual understanding of one another to attain a level many are unable to reach. Others may believe love can happen by the chance of a glimpse and bind them together by that unknown force without any preceding knowledge of the person. In The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, the “Knight's Tale” shows that love is greater…

I believe that love is real and that it is hard to find. I believe that love is real whether it comes from a family member, a pet, a spouse, or a best friend. In this case, real love comes from my boyfriend. It all started at a high school cheer competition. As I am sitting in awards, I look around and I see a boy in the crowd sitting with Lewiston’s fan section. Whispering in my best friend’s ear, I said “Look at that cute boy in Lewiston’s fan section! He's so hot! Although, Im pretty sure…

Selena Gomez’s “Round and Round” has some elements that fit well with the story’s depiction of humanity’s need for affection. Both the song and the story illustrate that it is human nature to crave love and affection no matter what happens. Gomez tells her lover: “Boy, I need you here with me” or else she will die. In the song, Gomez represents love as an essential component of life. Likewise, Jane believes that happiness is to be “loved by your fellow creatures” (250). Humans also have a…