Lust

“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 The downside of Romantics is that they get depressed, self-conscious, guilt-ridden, moralistic , withdrawn, stubborn, moody, and self-absorbed”.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…

Mehmet Geyik Prof. Emmolo ENG 106 – Writing Through Literature 08/21/2015 How love, age, and beauty are intertwined in "When You Are Old" by Yeats The love feelings in human beings are a unique feeling that translates to several actions by the person experiencing it. However it is intertwined into other aspects of the people such as the age and beauty of the people in love. Age dictates the beauty aspects which in turn is responsible for attraction to the people of opposite gender who are to…

There is this auto guy who takes Matthew for his piano lesson.. every thursday Here we were…. already late …waiting for this man to come ,jumped into his auto moved little only to realize that the fuel tank was empty!!!! I experienced a range of emotions from frustration to irritation .. The demands of life probably kept him from taking the time to fill the tank earlier. “I can go a little further without refueling”…so he thought… Isn’t this just the way we treat our internal "love tanks".…

Much Ado About Nothing is an intricate web weaved by William Shakespeare that encompasses many aspects of human nature and emotion. The play is thought to have been written between 1598 and 1589, and crafted towards the middle of Shakespeare 's career. (SparkNotes) Much Ado About Nothing is one of the several plays of his where, despite having some darker components, it ends in happiness and no one dies. Which when looking at the number of plays Shakespeare wrote and their stories, no one dying…