Romance languages

"The word Romance of course is derived from Roman ages, having to do with ancient Rome in the Middle Ages, people looked upon Roman Empire as something grounded and glorious, something far surpassing their own course time in its achievements"(wagoner, pg50). When you think about the word romantic it has come to be referred to almost anything Grand and glorious, this Cosmic powerful force of emotions that you feel for that special someone." In contrast to the ordinary constraints of daily life…

brain is happy then you are happy, if your brain is sad then you are sad. Michael Craig Miller, author of the magazine article “Sad Brain, Happy Brain” wrote “But your Brain is where you live. The brain is responsible for most of what you care about- language, creativity, imagination, empathy and morality.”. However, being in love can make your brain go crazy, it will give you mixed emotions and it will make you think constantly about the other person. Therefore this can be a good thing and also…

1.Provide the proper APA reference of the article? (1 point) 2.Discuss your process of obtaining the article you read. What was your topic / area of interest? Why did you choose the topic? What key words did you use to find your article? What problems or issues did you run into? Describe how successful your search was or was not. (2 points) The topic of pathological love is a very interesting topic, I wanted to see it relates to depression. It is an uncontrollable emotion that one…

In the poem Marrysong, Dennis Scott presents an unconventional relationship between the speaker and his wife, a woman so complicated and fluctuating that he has to persevere hard in order to “learn” her constantly changing moods, something that he inevitably cannot do. However, in Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare successfully presents a conventional love between the speaker and his partner, who’s beauty and love from the speaker is endless and timeless. In Marrysong, Scott compares the speaker’s…

In his infamous play, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses the forbidden relationship between Romeo and Juliet to explore the ideas of change and impermanence. From feuding families, the two adolescents are banned from fraternizing with each other. However, the conflicts between their two families does not stop them from becoming star-crossed lovers. Over the course of their relationship, both characters constantly change affinities and feelings, depicting how evanescent love can be and how…

An unknown author once said, “Some people create their own storms, then get upset when it rains.” Irony can be seen in three different ways, which include dramatic, verbal, and situational irony. Verbal irony is when the opposite of what is meant, is said. Dramatic irony is when the audience or some characters know something that others don’t. Situational irony is when when the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens. During the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia and Lysander were in…

Love is like a chemical reaction, a rush of dopamine in the human brain. In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream the psychological lens reveals how, many characters acted out in psychological distress due to a mix of love and dreams which form a potent “magic” or drug that can result in self discovery when love is blind and becomes revealed. Love is like a drug, especially in this tale of lovers. Dreams are a window to the soul and this dream could be a window into the audience's soul…

Sparks are Breathing Towards the end of Henry Howard’s sonnet, which embodies the aspects of courtly love such as secrecy, aristocracy, and adulterous actions, the speaker, who harbors love and does not reveal it due to the denial of his lover, declares “Sweet is the death that taketh end by love”. The speaker, who suffers through the inability to display his love, makes this observation while love resides in his heart. This observation reveals the secrecy of courtly love in the sonnet. The…

Plato’s Symposium offers various views on where love can be found in the mind, the body, and the soul. Aphrodite shows how desire fogs the mind, keeping Sappho from seeing one’s true beauty. In Sappho’s Ode to Aphrodite, beauty is where desire remains satisfactory for one as opposed to Plato’s Symposium, where desire leads to an understanding of true beauty, the beauty of the body, the mind, and the soul. The concept of love presented by Diatoma is able to reach the true understanding of beauty…

In Victorian England, a young heroine fell in love and became engaged to a rich socialite man, not knowing he had a secret; a secret that would be revealed on their wedding day. When found out by the heroine, this discovery would leave her utterly distraught and with no choice but to flee to the country. This is the situation that is faced by Jane Eyre in the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Eventually, it is discovered that the man, Edward Rochester was already married. He was married to…