Romance

Although Kate is one of Shakespeare's most enigmatic heroines, she is not the only complicated character in The Taming of the Shrew. Her groom, Petruchio, has nearly as much mystery surrounding him as does Kate herself. Yet exploring Petruchio forces us to ask questions that can become difficult largely because, frankly, we want to like him. In a sense, it's initially hard to explore a side of him which may, in fact, make him less likable. Is he a man of honor or a mercenary seeking only to…

Does Romeo and Juliet sound familiar? References of Romeo and Juliet are well-known throughout the world. It has been the inspiration for songs, movies, poems, stories, etc... It has been portrayed in various ways and yet the depth of the story is unfamiliar to many people. A common perception of the “star cross’d lovers of Verona”, is that it is unpretentiously thought to be a love story, of a young couple who committed suicide at the despair of their rivaling families. It’s a crude grasp on…

Allyson Krohn Professor Scott Eng 333 02/04/2018 The Knight Vs the Pardoner The General Prologue in the Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, there is a general introduction of the characters who are going to be competing to tell the best tale of the group. There are two characters that I would like to focus on, because they are quite the opposites; The knight and the Pardoner. The knight is the vision of a chivalrous knight and the pardoner being quite the opposite is known for swindling…

Relationships are something that everyone forms. It could be between two friends or two people that love each other. They can be romantic or be just be or someone cared about. It can attract all different types of people together. Relationships can have pretty and simple exteriors and can have complex and hard interiors. Everyone's relationships are different in their own way. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet their relationship is love and marriage. They will do anything to be together, even…

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…

“A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.” In comedy, the only characteristic shared between comedies is their want to make people laugh, and it can be difficult to pull off such a seemingly simple task. As defined by the New Oxford…

Purple symbolizes something much deeper than a color in this novel, bringing a rich meaning to Celie’s character finally showing her she had a purpose in life. Shug proves to be the powerful influential voice Celie needs in order to see herself as worthy of love and strength to speak against others, their friendship is the color purple for her because it finally gives Celie a positive outlook and sense of belonging in life. Celie first begins to pay attention to the bold purple colors…

Love has been an essential natural emotion since the beginning of time. Many people have different ways to express this feeling to their significant other, others not so much. But ever since the mid-1700s, love has been expressed using one specific ideology, known as Romanticism, and has taken over most if not all of the modern society. This particular belief is perfectly broken down into its fundamentals in a YouTube video called, “How Romanticism Ruined Love,” by the channel “School of Life”.…

The Dennison’s Unconditional love. These two words hold a great deal of meaning. The concept of unconditional love can be a difficult emotion to grasp until you have witnessed and experienced it first-hand. Raising a child with a disability is no easy task. It takes a great deal of love, courage, dedication, patience, and teamwork. When people think of having children, most do not imagine themselves raising a child with a disability, they image raising a perfectly healthy, “normal” child.…

There is something truly rewarding as a movie fan, when a talented actor, good and entertaining in a number of roles, finally breaks out and taps into greatness. In Matt Spicer's feature film debut, Ingrid Goes West, Aubrey Plaza gives her finest performance yet as a woman caught up in the instant gratification world of social media. In a role that could be full of formulaic meltdowns and tired cinematic tropes, she creates a character who is selfish and dangerous, yet generates empathy and…