The Four Loves

morals are a highlighted part of each character’s temperament, in the play, characters’ who have bad morals are treated poorly. An imperative part of a personality is one’s morals; morals isolate people from being obedient and disobedient. There are four humours that the characters are categorized into, they include: phlegmatic, melancholic, choleric, and sanguineous. Some of male characters who represent three of these humours are Sir Toby Belch, who is sanguineous, Duke Orsino, who is…

is that if Romeo and Juliet's love was real or just lust. The reason so many question this is because it all happens in such a short amount of time. Rosaline broke up with Romeo and the next day Romeo married Juliet. Romeo and Juliet only met each other four times before they got married. There are many theories that they really weren't truly in love. Romeo and Juliet possibly could've just had something in the moment. Everyone thinks that the play is showing there love for each other, but they…

thinking that someone like him would be able to be in a stable relationship without cheating on someone. I thought at that time he really, REALLY loved me, man was I fooled. I was nineteen and for the last two years and thirty four days of my life, I was in love with a man who didn’t love me sufficiently enough to keep me. I remember the moment very vividly. I walked out of his truck and was walking…

writing as a means to express their emotions. Gary Snyder wrote Four Poems For Robin mourning over a past lover in 1968. Whereas Ed Sheeran wrote Lego House in 2011, many years later. Although there is a large gap of time between the two, it is evident that writers have not stopped writing about love, being an unavoidable topic still relevant to this day. Both pieces explore similar themes yet use different tones and devices. Though Four Poems For Robin focuses on the stages of getting over…

Love serves at motivation for characters in a vast array of literary works in a variety of settings from the magical forest in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the barricades of the French Revolution in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. But is there room for love in the rigid Puritan society of The Crucible? In the hysteria and paranoia of the Salem Witch Trials, emotions and tensions are high, relationships become strained, and trust is virtually nonexistent. Do these conditions leave…

False Love In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, two characters believe their love for each other is so strong that living without the other serves no purpose, however; in such a short time their so-called love lead to multiple deaths. Romeo and Juliet believe they have a very strong and powerful love with each other after just one night and a few words, however: in such a short time they end up dying like much of their friends and family because of a lustful infatuation between the two lovers. To…

and the conflict between the character, Hermia, has with her father. Egeus want her to marry a man named Demetrius, but Hermia is in love with Lysander, her lover. Thus beginning the rising action, the couple plan to escape the arranged marriage, she and Lysander elope into the woods. Demetrius follows them, and he is pursued by Helena, who nurses an unrequited love for him and is Hermia's friend. Then meanwhile in the woods, the fairy queen, Titania and her husband, Oberon, are have a quarrel…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, examines four separate plots intertwined by the theme of love. In the stories, love is out of balance and asymmetrical among four young Athenians. Although the main conflict of this play stems from relationships, Shakespeare shows the real tragedy is not being loved. Through the three main female characters (Helena, Hermia, and Titania), Shakespeare engages the notion of beauty and fairness to demonstrate the subjectiveness of love. Shakespeare uses Helena’s…

those very short twenty-four hours. I would not be the one to want to know when I die, but if I was to know that I was going to die exactly twenty-four hours from now, I definitely wouldn’t be typing this paper right now. Others may want to do something crazy, just to make themselves feel accomplished before death. I would want to spend the entire day with the people I love. I know that is cliche, but the people I love is all I care about. On the day that I only have twenty-four hours to live,…

main theme of the book focuses on love and whether or not true love exists. In the book there are four main characters who fall in and out love with each other. Love is fickle as shown through these characters, proving that true love does not exist. Feelings can change very quickly, as shown when the magic is put into the eyes of the two Athenian boys, Lysander and Demetrius, whose fawning of Hermia changes to Helena. Both boys had loved Hermia and when their love switched to Helena she believed…