Lust murder

Love is ubiquitous and universal, as most of us will encounter some version of love at least once in our lifetime. But what exactly is love? It is such a widespread feeling, yet each individual that experiences it seems to have an unique perspective on it, based on age, culture, and lifestyle. Majority of these people associate love with feelings of strong affection and personal attachment, but one specific psychologist, Barbara Fredrickson, strays away, focusing on the body’s perspective of…

Love creates several dangerous obstacles, namely drawn from its possessive and often obsessive qualities. As stated in Aquamarine, “love is the closest thing we have to magic.” This is often the case for personal relationships: what would seem ordinary soon takes on much more meaning. Love is then, in a way, truly magical; It defies ordinary logic, in so doing surprising any observer. When one is truly in love, one could simply do no wrong; the statement that “love is blind” immediately gains…

length of time of knowing Juliet. In the play, his youthfulness, compatibility, and the length of time of knowing Juliet shows that Romeo and Juliet don't know if they are made for each other or if they are in love. During that time it was common for lust to be mistaken for love. Many people have married others based on wealth, looks and status, and it was common for love to be lost in the crowd. They were so young they couldn't truly know what “love”…

“Why are you looking at me like that?” “Because you’re beautiful.” This is the part of the book when the main characters, Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster meet for the first time. This is also the start of the plot line. The book is a story about how two strangers fall in love and go places that some people could only dream about. However, they both share something in common. They have cancer. One of the amazing adventures that these characters go on is a trip to Amsterdam. In John…

Ann Landers once said “Love is friendship that has caught on fire, It settles less than perfection and makes allowances for human weakness.” In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins’,the overarching theme is teenage love. The main character is Katniss Everdeen. Katniss and Peeta both fall for each other. Peeta told Katniss that he had a crush on her on the 1st day of school. They both work together on the games. Teenage love can be complicated for some people and by the relationship that Katniss…

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne displays how one sin can ruin the lives of many. His purpose is to show how holding in a sin and not being truthful can haunt you and lead to your end. Hawthorne uses several rhetorical device to convey this message, including: antithesis, anaphora, and metaphor. Throughout the text, antithesis is commonly used, especially comparing life and death. For example, Dimmesdale states “Many, many poor soul hath given its confidence to me, not only…

6.4—The Individualist Pursuit of Empowered Self-love Happiness (#4,6, 7) A more introverted creative type than the achiever is the Romantic (#4) who are warm, compassionate, introspective, creative, intuitive, supportive and refined on the upside. The downside of Romantics is that they get depressed, self-conscious, guilt-ridden, moralistic , withdrawn, stubborn, moody, and self-absorbed”. (Ibid.) A writer tends to be of this ilk and is wonderful to be around when creative but may be…

Love: an aspect of life both complex and simple, both mysterious and apparent, both evasive and accessible. Great thinkers have mused over this concept, its different forms and effects, for centuries. Many ask the question of love's role in happiness: is it truly necessary? Both Plato and Aristotle argue the importance of love in attaining true contentment. However, the different forms they describe carry different connotations and different levels of influence on life. In Aristotle's…

One of the most time honored pieces of literature is the tale of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. The entire story is based around two young lovers but was it really love that they feel or is it something else? Love is a mystical word because it is a noun that is used to describe itself. Everyone experiences and has felt it so why is it so hard to define if every human knows what it is? There are so many components that all come together to form a different feeling each time.…

Love has been constantly defined as a beautiful, optimistic, and hopeful emotion. It fills people with joy and delight, leading their hearts to never-ending laughter. However, in the performed poem "Unrequited Love", Sierra DeMulder sees loving another to be gut-wrenching and mentally agonizing. In the poem, the speaker talks about watching someone her listener loves have feelings for another woman. When the person that she is speaking to first find out that there is another woman, that person…