Comparing Attitudes Toward Love in First Love, Shall I Compare Thee, Porphyria's Love and The Flea

be seen by the way he uses words like “Had we” and “we would”. This is

The human idea of love is quite possibly the most misunderstood in today’s society. Love can be between a man and woman, mother/father and their kids, or even really good friends. However, these relationships of love go through many interactions and stages to start and progress. Many psychological events must occur and be worked through in order to be successful. All relationships must endure the five perspectives of human behavior. These perspectives are biological, learning, social and cultural, cognitive, and psychodynamic influences.

Love exists in the short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro and in the short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver. in Munro’s short story the plot is that of a mentally ill wife, Fiona, who falls in love with another patient while her husband still tries to hang on to their old love. Her husband eventually wants to have an affair with the wife of the man his wife is having an affair with. Their love changed because of their circumstances due to ill health. Carver’s story discusses the different definitions of love due to the type and quality of relationships; everyone has a different definition. Love also exists all over the world within different environments and cultures. The concept of love depends upon the environment in which it inhabits. Love is dependent on the life of the people in love and it also depends on their current environment. Nature and nurture are also huge factors into the development and process of love. What nature and nurture mean is whether it is due to how the person lives and acts along with their personality compared to whether it’s all in their genetics beforehand. Love is more on the nurture side instead of the nature side of human experience.

What is love? Is it an object? Is it a feeling? Is it even attainable? Love is everything, it is an object, it is an emotion, and it cannot be bought, stolen, given. Love can only be found. Love is discovered in the most unthinkable places during the most unimaginable times. It can never be predicted who you fall in love with or when you do but all you do know is that you are in love and you would give anything for that person, and for your love to always stay resilient through all other obstacles and distractions. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Montague’s and Capulet’s are know and expected to hate each other until the miracle of love presented its self. Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. They both fell in love when

Palomon says, " The Beauty of the lady whom I see wandering yonder in the garden

With a drastic contrast of conservative and liberal ideals, it seems almost natural for those in positions of privilege and power to grasp onto and enforce whatever remains of their societal roles. These rigid societal roles gave British society two options: be forced into a box that fits the ideal sense of human identity or to break the system entirely. Victorian literature often focused on this conflict of ideals, concentrating on how these pressures shaped an individual and their fate. Emily Bronte and Robert Browning weave their pieces to grasp this idea of the individual. However, the effect of the society on the individual varied between the authors, with Bronte’s speaker dreaming of an escape to come while Browning’s character fell

Comparing The Flea and Valentine "The flea" is a metaphysical poem about a man trying to argue a virgin into bed to have sexual intercourse with him. This poem was most likely written to amuse the readers and probably more for a larger male audience. The poem was written in the late 17th century in a period where sex within marriage was like a household chore, but socially, sex before marriage was like a sin, because society was extremely religious. John Donne is attempting to get these thoughts out of her head and persuade her to have sex with him.

only way this is possible is to kill her. This occurs to him after he

The Ignorance of Love All throughout “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” by Yasunari Kawabata, a recurring theme continues to present itself. It is found heavily entwined within the literary components in the story and it is almost directly stated. When examined closely, practically every piece of this story represents support for the common theme. Through the use of the main literary components of setting, character, point of view, and symbolism, the major theme that love can be ignorant can be identified.

While people are often able to identify when they feel the emotion love, love itself seems to defy definition.  In her polemic “Against Love”, Laura Kipnis argues that love cannot exist as traditional expressions of love such as marriage, monogamy, and mutuality.  However, in her argument, she defines love incorrectly by equating love to expressions of love. This definition lacks a component essential to understanding the abstract concept of love: emotion. Recognizing love as emotion helps us realize that, contrary to Kipnis’ argument love by nature transcends all expressions of love. Love is subjective and exists in any and all forms. In her argument that love cannot survive as conventional expressions of love, Kipnis ignores the nature of love as emotion in favor of equating love to different expressions of love. Love is a force which exists above expressions of love; a true understanding of love can only come from an assessment of how individuals, not societies, respond to the emotion.

True love comes from the heart and not the eyes. From the first moment one lays their eyes on the one, it is not because of who they are, but what they look like. In both the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, and Shakespeare in Love, a film by John Madden, the characters had a strong desire for another, but it was not the feeling of love. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo instantly forgot about his old love, Rosaline, and fell for Juliet without knowing who she was. In the film, Shakespeare in Love, William Shakespeare fell in love with Viola De Lesseps but not for who she was which was illustrated multiple times.

she is giving him a present for Valentine's Day - to offer a gift to

has sucked his blood and hers and he is now using this flea as an

The notion of time is used as the basis for the argument in 'To his

Scene 5 she has to break the news to Juliet that she is going to be