Romance languages

With Valentine’s Day just behind us, we are reminded of love and when we think of the character that best represents love the first thing that comes to mind is Cupid. You can’t go to a store during the holiday season without seeing the image of Cupid on cards, stuffed toys, candy boxes, and flower vases. Cupid was one of the minor Roman Gods. Although we don’t know his exact birth we do know he was born on Mount Olympus, Cupid is the son of Venus and Mercury. Venus is the goddess of love…

The main love interests in the productions for Kat and Katerina are Patrick and Petruchio. Patrick and Petruchio share many similarities, including being an outsider that no one really knows as well as having to chase after the main character (Kat and Katerina). Patrick and Petruchio have the hardest job in the productions as they must become romantically entangled to Kat and Katerina so that Bianca can date her various suitors. In both, the play and the film Patrick and Petruchio end up taming…

“A mean submissive passion is conveyed” when passionate love usurps Angellica’s pride (Behn, 5.1.279). With this imagery, Angellica expresses her upset at her heart’s betrayal of feeling love towards Wilmore. The word “mean” demonstrates a harsh and relentless perception of how love wrongs her; it forces her to relinquish her independency and pride by making her submit to that passion. Love thus tyrannizes Angellica and creates a sour interpretation of the idiom “Love conquers all.” With this…

Logan Killicks and Janie’s marriage began the inevitable cracks within the confines of her quintessential love. Janie and Logan were the same side of different magnets— polarizing and repelling. Their marriage was not founded on love, it was a transaction. Logan desired the concept of Janie— a beautiful, attractive, and young woman that embodied femininity and womanhood—who he can parade around town as his. His idea of a marriage was founded under the assumption that his money and safety will…

her weight of costs and rewards. The possibility of getting caught in a lie was less costly than the reward, or pleasantry, of going out for drinks with her friend, even though her husband would not like it. Similarly, Harry’s decision to begin a romance with his coworker weighed the costs of Sue finding out about Krista against the possibility of a new relationship with her. Earlier in the relationship, however, Sue also weighed her costs and rewards on the…

The Theme of ‘Uncertainty’ in Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot is the English translation of the famous post war French play En Attendant Godot by Samuel Beckett written between 1948 and 1949. The plot of the play revolves around two tramps- Vladimir and Estragon who waits for the arrival of an acquaintance named “Godot”. However, Godot never comes and throughout the play, these two tramps engage themselves in various discussions, activities, and encounters. Being a play that belongs to the…

Thomas Merton once said, “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.” This means that sometimes us humans don’t know what we are meant for in life, until we know who we are meant for in life. So on the occasion in which two people who are meant to be with each other don’t get the privilege of being with each other, they might not know what life could have in store for them. That is the unfortunate case in Romeo and Juliet. It’s no…

THE INTUITIVE BOND BETWEEN KEATS AND BATALVI A born-romantic, lonely and passionate singer, like Keats and Shelley, Batalvi had a intuition of his untimely doom : "This lyric of mine took birth with me, And with me it's to sojourn to Heaven. I'll sing my own song and depart the next dawn." Lovelorn poet Batalvi, physically also resembled Keats. And almost all his lyrics were addressed to some "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." During his…

The word heartthrob is derived from the two words, heart and throb (Harper, 2014). In 1928, it was described as a person who prompts romantic feelings. Overtime, its definition has morphed and multiple meanings have stemmed up from the word. More often than not, the word heartthrob is widely known today as a male entertainer who exudes massive sex appeal. An average person would pale in comparison to this male entertainer. Heartthrob can also refer to the throbbing of a heart. This is the…

Making a Musical Romance It’s an all too familiar trope in the film musical genre: the perfect couple locks eyes across the room. The piano strikes up. The happy couple sings in perfect harmony. They all live happily ever after. It’s a trope so familiar, it provokes audience responses ranging from grudging acceptance to outright hatred. However, like all tropes, the “soulmate song” can be effective when used properly, and truly move the audience to believe in the couple. In order to analyze…