Lust

Love and Time Are Precious: Let’s Use It Wisely In life, one of the most amazing things we experience is love and that special connection with our significant other. In the poem, “To Coy His Mistress”, Andrew Marvell tells the efforts of a man who is desperately trying to seduce his mistress into making love with him before it’s too late. With this dramatic monologue Marvell express the speaker’s admiration and desire to love the mistress through metaphors and imagery to connect to the themes…

As a young man or woman, love is a new concept that is often mixed up with attraction. People who experience the phenomena of “love at first sight” only find each other attractive. In the movie Romeo and Juliet, Romeo talks about how he has never seen a girl as beautiful as Juliet when he first lays eyes upon her. This means that he had found her beautiful and doesn’t necessarily love her. As a teenager, love is such a new abstraction and point of curiosity that teens do foolish things just to…

Love is often portrayed as a beneficial and a desiredwanted emotion because it bears the results of feeling good. When seen from the outside, only the good parts of relationships involving love are seen, such as others holding hands and spending quality time together. Therefore, many gain the misconception that love is a picture-perfect emotion that they end up longing for. Although love appears to not have conflict, romantic love makes those who receive it initially feel joy and happiness, but…

Would you rather be single or be with the wrong person? In the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, the Swedish singer Christine Daae is torn in a weird love triangle between two men: the handsome, rich, yet controlling and jealous Raoul, the Viscount of Chagny and the mysterious, talented, yet ugly and violent Erik, the Opera Ghost. Raoul was Christine’s childhood sweetheart and he wants to win her back. Erik is a masked man that slowly falls in love with Christine, while he hides…

William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is a well-known comedy, a tale of lovers, haters and everything in between. The play focuses on two lovers who are captivated by each other’s looks the two care for little more in each other. On the other hand, another two lovers, Beatrice and Benedick, challenge each other’s quick wit and on the surface, seem to be a pain or burden to one another, yet they always find themselves talking or thinking about the other. Throwing insults, or witty humor…

In chapter 52 of East of Eden, Abra talks to Cal about why she no longer loves Aron. She says that, in childhood, their story like dreams of marriage and a happy future satisfied her. But, as she grew older, she grew to realize that she wanted more than to live in a story. This really spoke to me, as the discussion of reality and fantasy intrigues me. I find Abra’s decision to face reality and want to live in it extremely admirable, as fantasy is so often much more appealing and tempting.…

Spike Jonze's Her is an ordinary love story with a restriction--one of the lovers is a lot like other human beings. Usually, romances depend on a small stable of expected, but effective, ways of doing things. The more simple of these ways is the two-shot, in which the director puts both individuals in the same shot. A sequence of two-shots affects the audience, which we begin to expect to see these two characters together in every shot. When shots that only contain one of the lovers begin to…

(+) Alluring ↳ very attractive or tempting; enticing; seductive; charming. ↳ There’s something irresistible about a man that exudes confidence with every step he takes and is entirely unashamed of who he is. Likewise it’s difficult, if not impossible, to resist someone who knows how to wield love like a weapon, peppering kisses laced with promises of forever all over your body. Both are examples of the dangerous charm of Gavriil Paramanov and proof that he’s always had a certain allure to…

What is true love? Is it when two people are in a trusting relationship? Or, maybe, true love can only be found when both partners are committed? In William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there are many characters who possess aspects of true love for a specific person, but there's only one pairing that truly exhibits this trait. Lysander and Hermia have a love that is so true that they believe in each other even when they are told they can't be together. Lysander’s love for…

In “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” the theme is love. The story is mainly based on dialogues between two couples, Mel and Terresa, and Laura and Nick. While they talked a lot, at the end of the story, they did not come up with a clear definition of love. Through symbolisms and writing style used in the story, Carver examed how difficult to define love. Raymond Carver was a minimalist writer, whose stories were written in a sparse use of language and paired down prose (Brent). That…