Platonic love

dependent on his love for Daisy. Gatsby 's dreams were enough to keep him satisfied for years, as a way of coping with his loss of Daisy. However, his fantasies imply that it may be to be too much to handle. The one thing Gatsby craves for more than anything is Daisy 's requited love, and is the one thing that will never happen. Daisy and her "love" for Tom is faked with words, yet her ideas of perfectionism makes the idea of her loving Gatsby disappear into thin air. When real love is found,…

Literature is meant to provoke many different kinds of emotions and responses from the reader. However, the best literary stories are the ones that have stood the test of time and are read over and over again. But is something so old really relatable to modern thinking and society. The ancient literary texts can be a bridge between ancient and modern cultures. These stories have too many years between the point they were written and the time the reader is getting to them. Problems in society…

Much Ado About Nothing is a Shakespeare comedy, which takes place in Messina, Italy. This play focuses on love, romance, and courtships, with a deeper perspective highlighting the brutality of gossip, rumors, lies, and deceptions. Much hurt, complication and stress are piled on top deceptions learned of through eavesdropping, or in Elizabethan English, noting. In Elizabethan English “nothing,” was pronounced: “noting.” This is how Shakespeare came to the title of the play, for much is done over…

“I realize now that dying is easy, living is hard” (Forman 175). This quote is so much more than just words; it represents a choice, Mia’s choice between life and death. Stuck outside her lifeless body, Mia is presented with the choice of staying and living with what she has left on this earth, or leaving and joining her deceased family. With her loved ones watching over her, Mia reminisces about her life and the possibilities of her future, as she is faced with this powerful decision. In the…

period that Tess is living in, it is expected of women to remain chaste until marriage, in Tess’s case she is not. Which is causing her to suffer the consequences of being socially outcasted. This experience of alienation is continued through Tess’s love…

Viola’s quest to thrive in society heavily complicates her love life, but she is ultimately able to find harmony in the end. Upon shipwrecking on the coast of Illyria, Viola makes the decision to conceal her identity to better her chances of survival in this new society with no one to guide her. Her captain is able to get her a job working for the Duke as she requested and assists her in transformation- which ultimately consists of assuming the identity of male. While her new employment…

The Twelfth Night, a complex love story. The events of the play may seem predictable, but there are many plot twists. Backstabbing, being one, can be very unpleasant at times. People can be spontaneous while backstabbing. This can effect a variety of different types of love seen in the play, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. As characters throughout the scenes in the play evolved, so did their emotional status. Malvolio started as a humorless, mundane man. Three of his friends included Maria…

This dream starts to fade away once he meets a rich girl from Louisville, named Daisy. At this time Gatsby was still a poor boy, but on the road of changing. Daisy, born into a rich family with a very good reputation falls in love with Jay Gatsby, and Gatsby’s feelings for Daisy are mutual. However, social classes were still a big representation of who you were, just like they are today. Although it does not come right out and say it, the book implies that Daisy being part…

Twelfth Night Essay Love is not always straight forward; it can weave into webs that never come untangled. Nevertheless, humans try to unravel them, but what they find is not always what they expect. In the play Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare, the main character Viola is in a shipwreck which costs her her brother and alters her reality. She had recently lost her father and was on the ship with her twin brother, Sebastian. During the wreck, Sebastian was saved by a pirate, named Antonio,…

comprehend and relate to the intimacy they share together. However, their intense fondness for each other is in a similar manner to love vs. lust. In particular, the first time Romeo notices Juliet at the Capulet party, he falls in love with her due to her appearance. In contrast, Romeo attends the ball in order to be with Rosaline, but instantly finds himself in love with another woman. Due to this mishap, he began a new relationship with Juliet and later discusses to Friar Laurence about…