The Four Loves

Dream, Love is Not Always Easy According to Wikipedia “A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play written by William shakespeare in 1595/96” but is still relatable to some people. The play A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeares most popular performances and one of the themes is that love is not always easy, I will be showing how that theme follows in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In a Midsummer Night’s, Titania shows that love is not easy in the play. Titania shows this because she falls in…

Shakespeare is a love story between two young individuals Romeo, and Juliet, who are from the Capulet and the Montague family. Since Juliet is a Capulet, and Romeo is a Montague, they both have to fight to be together because their families are considered enemies; however, just because their families do not get along, Romeo and Juliet still go behind their families ' backs to try to be together. Also, another play Shakespeare has written is All 's Well That Ends Well; now during this love…

When Romeo storms into Friar Laurence’s chamber asking him to bless their marriage, Friar Laurence scolds Romeo on how he falls in love easily for his love does not lie “...truly in their hearts, but in their eyes” (2.4.26). Romeo happens to be the type of guy who falls in love in just a blink of an eye. After giving him a quick scold, he immediately agrees. Meanwhile the Nurse, she obeys orders given by Juliet. She takes no stand in this situation; she…

Irrationality in Love in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream Love is a central motif in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream, as evidenced by the actions and agency of the main characters in the play. According to Hutton (290), many critics feel that Shakespeare offers the audience a choice between the rational and irrational. The theme of love brings out this choice capably, as demonstrated by the perception that rational love triumphs over irrational love, as the young lovers settle for…

Extra Credit #2- Short Story Fiction “Four Hills” by Sara Majka is a short fiction story about taking responsibility for your own actions and not letting someone else determine your own happiness. The narrator in the story is infatuated with nature and whenever she finds a job in the city she realizes that she is no longer happy with how she is living her life. The protagonist who is also the narrator, just happened to be in a restaurant when she passed this guy who immediately caught her…

Reading the definitions of love and infatuation, I concluded that the feelings that Romeo and Juliet felt toward each other were purely infatuation. Romeo and Juliet is a story about “love” and what two people are willing to sacrifice for it. Shakespeare says the play was about love but after reading the definitions of each, infatuation is way closer to what Romeo and Juliet actually feel towards each other. The definition of infatuation is an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for…

perfectly exemplifies Carver’s minimalist style is What We Talk about When We Talk about Love? The story takes place over the course of an evening, during which two married couples, Nick, who is also the narrator, and Laura, and mal and Terri, sit around the kitchen table drinking gin and discussing the topic of what love is. The setting of the story is one more time simple as it happens in a kitchen. Four friends with their gin and tonics are talking around the table. The title plays an…

The Protagonists Differences of Love and Correlation of Isolation The themes of love and isolation are common throughout many literary works, but perhaps usually don’t come to mind when reading graphic novels. In Boxers & Saints, by Gene Luen Yang, main characters Bao and Four-Girl are motivated by separate goals: Bao is focused on ridding foreign devils from China, while Four-Girl aspires to become one. Their goals differ, but nonetheless, both are driven by a love for what they do—whether…

When the word love is brought up, people seem to feel uncomfortable. It brings great controversy between people because no one really knows how to define it. To some it’s when others happiness is their happiness, or when they feel great comfort around a certain someone that they can speak freely to. Everyone has a different opinion on love, it’s a hard topic to discuss. Carver does a great job showing his depiction of love in his story, “What We Talk about When we Talk about Love.” He…

characters to imply that love is preposterous due to its complexity and uncertainty. Shakespeare begins the play in act one, scene one where two of the four lovers converse on the complexity of love. Lysander, a young Athenian, discusses with Hermia, the woman he is in love with, the ways love can be flawed.. He states, “The course of true love never did go smooth.” (1.1.36) This proverb outlines an underlying theme in the overall perspective of love in this play. Referring to love as a “course”…