Worshipping Of Eros

Which was the reason why I hated Eros. I hated that I loved him. I hated that his one glance on me could lift up my mood instantly. For the last six years, ever since Mom and I moved to New York, I have been madly in love with the most unreachable guy in our school.

Through Alcibiades’ speech about love, it should be connected with Diotima’s speech which comes from Socrates. She claims that Eros is the love of beauty, but not the ideal love. “ Then don’t compel what is not beautiful to be ugly, nor what is not good to be bad. So too for Eros, since you yourself agree that hi is neither good nor beautiful, do

His main point between Eros and Venus is that they are two different things, and they do not necessarily go hand in hand, although they usually do. For a couple to be in love, it does not mean they should have sex, and for two to have a sexual pleasure does not mean they love one another. He does state though, that sometimes with having sex, it can make the couple love each other more and grow stronger together. It goes along with saying that it depends on the couple and their feelings of Eros and Venus. Every individual interprets that meaning of love differently.

Aphrodite was known for having many love affairs. She had an arranged marriage, set up by Zeus, with Hephaestus, the ugliest of the gods. Her true love was Ares, the god of war and violence. Hephaestus knew of the affair and to get back at her, he humiliated her in front of all the gods by setting a trap for the lovers. When the two were about to make love, they were scooped up into a net where all the gods could witness her betrayal. Ares and Aphrodite conceived many children: Eros being the most famous. He is also known as Cupid. (“Aphrodite History”)

In Anne Stevenson’s “Eros,” the god of love is shown to be broken and abused. Many negative words are used to emphasize Eros’ brokenness. He is described as a “bully boy,” a “brute” that “offends,” and is given “blows” delivered by “lust.” These words are not pleasant, as they illustrate an offensive, hurtful figure. As a “slave” to immortality, Eros is doomed to a “bruised” and “battered visage” for eternity. It is destined for him to endure such a future because of the nature of his job. These strong words of hate and hurt show the pain that love had to endure. The caller of love asks, “Can this be you, with boxer lips and patchy wings askew?” Eros answers with, what “you see is what long overuse has made

Luvenia lives in Chicago with her best friend Ms. Etta as a maid for the Deetes. Her dream has always been to go to college and get an education.. She is determined to go to college no matter what, “ … I think about going to college, hurrying in with my books and pens. Then one day when I finish, I might teach school…”(147). As she is talking to Ms. Etta, an idea pops up, a recommendation letter from Mr. Deets, to show that she has what it takes to be in college.

Luvenia loses her job over a lie she was involved in. John Deets informs, “Your services will no longer be required” (188). This proves Luvenia got fired. The reasoning behind her losing her job is Florenz, Mr.Deets daughter. Florenz included Luvenia in a lie so Florenz could drive her father’s car and that is how Luvenia lost her job. Luvenia describes, “The crushing feeling seemed to rise from her knees, careen through her trembling body, and settle heavily in Luvenia’s chest” (189). This presents how much getting fired affected Luvenia. As a result, Luvenia may also lose her opportunity to attend college because of this

Luella is very influential. She can give people short-term or long-term influence. She intimidated Roger by angrily interrogating him with "What did you want to do it for?" (page 1, paragraph 4, line 1), he whispers "I'm very sorry, lady, I'm sorry" in page 1, paragraph 11, line 1, which showed how scared he was. She thinks that he might have been living off of stealing, so she grabbed him to teach him a valuable lesson. She used a metaphor to make him realize that he is not only harming others by stealing, but harming himself, too. She explained "...shoes come by devilish like will burn your feet..." in page 3, paragraph 10, line 3, "devilish like" meaning harmful, illegal, or bad actions. She admitted that she had also made some mistakes in the past. Her point is that you can still become a good person with good intentions even though you've made some

Greek tragedies often teach readers several valuable lessons, one of which is the catastrophe caused by acting on emotions. Both Oedipus and Antigone experience this as a result of their rash behavior. Even Creon ends up miserable in Antigone due to the change in his behavior. By acting on their emotions, these characters all experience tragic downfalls, while others, such as Ismene and Creon during Oedipus Rex, remain safe due to their prudence and indications of wisdom.

Hughes uses Luella's characteristics to enrich his theme. Luella portrays a caring, humble, and trusting figure towards Roger. Her caring trait can be seen in the story when she says," you ought to be my son. I would teach you right from wrong." Furthermore, This depicts Luella's mothering nature towards roger, changing his outlook towards life. Luella's humbleness also contributed to the theme. When Luella says," Least I can do right now is to wash your face. Are you hungry?" Furthermore, this quote displays Luella's humbleness because even if Roger tried to steal from her, she still offered her hospitality towards him. Luella's trusting personality plays a role in enhancing the theme as well. When Hughes says," The woman did not watch the

Eos was a strong woman and she didn’t need to use weapons because she only rose up to the sky to set the sun down or for sunrise, she sometimes used her winged horses instead of her wings. According to web.eecs.utk.edu, Eos was cursed by Aphrodite because she had done a bad thing with Zeus, so Aphrodite cursed her with falling in love with every young men she sees. One of them was Tithonus, he was a mortal but since she was a goddess she would live forever and he would’t. Eos asked Zeus if he could give him immortality and so he did, Tithonus lived for a long time but he started getting older. Eos noticed that it was because she forgot to ask Zeus if she could also give him eternal youth. Eos started losing interest in him so he turned him

Since people would say that Venus, the goddess of love (also known as Aphrodite), could not equal Psyches beauty (Hamilton, 92), Venus grew jealous and ordered her son, Cupid (also know as Eros), "to cause Psyche to fall in love with an ugly monster, but instead [once

His stories were repurposed by the Romans. This is what transformed Eros into Cupid. Latin Literature explains his relationship with his mother, Venus. But he is mostly identified as the offspring of Mars and Venus, the god and goddess of love and war. The Renaissance period is what really depicted Cupid to be a chubby baby with a bow and arrows. The lead arrows were forgotten as well as Cupid being a grown man. In the 1900s, the modern mythology of being shot and falling passionately in love with the next person you seen took place. Traditionally he took place on Valentine’s Day cards and being the

In the beginning of the novel, Luo is performing as a high-caliber kind of individual towards his best friend, the Narrator. He is acting like he is superior over the Seamstress, saying things like, “She isn’t civilized, at least not enough for me” (29). Luo doesn’t believe that the Seamstress is that important of a figure, at least not considerable enough to be in his life at this point and time. All that he believes that she is to him is a little seamstress girl that he can read books to. Nothing more than that. The a Seamstress isn't as polite and courteous, as so he thinks. Despite his “uncivilized” feelings about her, he still reads books of reeducation to her and goes by her every chance he gets, which conveys that there is something there that he may be trying to hide, such as his underlying feelings for her. The Narrator noticed that Luo had been “following her every move”(29) and “taking his time to reply”(28). This specific action that Luo tried to hide wasn’t hidden enough for the Narrator to pick up on. Luo doesn’t want to admit that there may be some

The term “Eros,” referring to passionate love in English, has long been the mainstream of themes in drama, literature, arts, and cinematic media. The fascinating power of love has been exhaustively publicized, and the pursuit of love is diffused in streets and lanes. Conversely, in ancient times, many poets, especially Virgil, Ovid and Apuleius, described eros as such an evil spirit that it will destroy the female soul thoroughly, except for the one in Apuleius’ story of Cupid and Psyche. Even if taking into account the historical background of a patriarchal community and therefore the esteemed male dominance, the particular case of Psyche’s surviving and even thriving her encounter with eros