Romance film

Kirwin communicates that romantic love is “emotional closeness and physical attraction between partners”, and is “commonly seen in film and literature” (Kirwin 3). The audience can agree, because Romeo is very intensely in love with Juliet and displays immense love for her. In the course of Romeo kissing Juliet, she questions whether the action was correct because of religious beliefs…

In Charles Bukowski's poem, "A Definition" he pushes the limits on the conventional definition of love by acknowledging the harsh reality, that it isn't all hearts and butterflies. When describing love, we tend to quickly jump into a world where problems cease to exist and revel in complete and total infatuation with our partner. This may be so, but as you and I both know love isn't as one-sided as just that. It doesn't come out of the blue, it's a desired commodity that comes with a world of…

Kanika Dang English midterm literary analysis paper 3rd November2015 Depiction of love in “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American writer and novelist. Ten of Sparks’ romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film. In the novels “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” Sparks explores the endless cycle of love that transcends the eternal cycle of time. His works depict the eternity of love. “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” are love stories. Both the…

In ancient Greek mythology, there are many stories of strong women, but none as tragically captivating as that of Medea. This story follows Medea’s intense romance with a classic Greek hero and results in tragedy for her and the ones she loves. Readers can sympathize with her heartbreak, jealousy, and desperation as she attempts everything in her power to restore her broken relationship after her lover abandons her for another woman and a marriage that will bring him wealth and power. This…

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…

example of Gothic fiction. What characteristic features of Gothic fiction can you see in the novel? Does Stoker depart from any principles of Gothic fiction? How? Why? Discuss. Understood as a genre in literature and film, Gothic fiction combines elements of fiction, horror, death and romance to paint a bright picture of the quirks of the era. The everlasting popularity of Gothic fiction feeds on our desire to indulge in innocent but hearty chunks of terror. Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, typical of…

The fan as an object symbolises women, the past as well as a general theme of romance and courtship. Eavan Bolan hence seizes the opportunity to universalise the bonds of love in the form of a ‘story’, a tale of her parents’ meeting and love. The universalisation of love in “The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave me” is enshrined in the…

Throughout both the film Tootsie and Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the idea of gender crossover is used, and while the idea of gender itself is examined, this crossover’s affect on love relationships is the main focus. Both Michael Dorsey and Rosalind, the protagonists of their respects works, pretend for a short time to be the opposite gender. Both are also in love with someone who, for the time being, is the same gender as they are – Michael falls in love in his disguise, while Rosalind…

A 1995 study conducted by Swiss zoologist Claus Wedekind found that, when asked to choose between T-shirts with different body odors, women tended to prefer those of men with certain genes dissimilar from their own (cite mult sources that mention). From this “smelly T-shirt experiment” arose the process of genetic matchmaking, in which comparisons of two individuals’ specific genes in an effort to determine romantic compatibility (cite source), known as MHC genes (cite mult. sources). Multiple…

Even the most tenacious flowers will eventually wither in the wrong environment. Similarly, even the fervent love of Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar—the protagonists of Annie Proulx’s short story, “Brokeback Mountain”—cannot withstand the social taboos that threaten their relationship. In a sense, the two cowboys were doomed from the start. Their fathers were completely intolerant and denied Jack and Ennis of empathetic upbringings. This, among many other social restraints, precludes the…