Eros And Lust

An Eros lover has a warm relationship with their family, falls in love at first sight, and idealizes love. In Juliet’s case, she has a warm relationship with her nurse, father, and brother. In the beginning Juliet was not anxious to fall in love, but when she met Romeo, everything changed. On her balcony, after her encounter with Romeo, she confesses her love for him. Even though she just met him she claims it is love at first sight, a characteristic in Eros lovers. In addition, she is desperate to have sexual intercourse with Romeo and compares herself to, “an impatient child that [had] new robes/ And [could] not wear them” (III.ii.88). In other words, she had married but was still a virgin. At this time she is idealizing the idea of love. Also, she considers love the most important activity, which is shown when she spends the entire day in bed waiting for Romeo.

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

"They turn casually to look at you, distracted, and get a mild distracted surprise, you're gone. Their blank look tells you that the girl they were fucking is not there anymore. You seem to have disappeared.(pg.263)" In Minot's story Lust you are play by play given the sequential events of a fifteen year old girls sex life. As portrayed by her thoughts after sex in this passage the girl is overly casual about the act of sex and years ahead of her time in her awareness of her actions. Minot's unique way of revealing to the reader the wild excursions done by this young promiscuous adolescent proves that she devalues the sacred act of sex. Furthermore, the manner in which the author illustrates to the reader these acts symbolizes the

“An intense feeling of deep attraction.” That is the definition of love. Love between a man and a dog, a kid and ice-cream, a mother and her family, and love between two selfless people. This is true love. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, the feeling of attraction between the two main characters is not true love. The setting of this play is the streets of Verona, Italy, during a time when arranged marriages at the age of 14 were socially acceptable. Two young teens, Romeo and Juliet, were convinced that they had feelings for each other, but acted more out of lust than anything else. Lust is defined as “a very strong sexual desire”, and it becomes more apparent as the

In the First Homeric Hymn of Aphrodite, the structure of the narrative, in terms of organization and word choice, directly influence how one interprets the text. Specifically, the amount of time spent discussing both perspectives of the Aphrodite myth, lead me to believe that the limitation of her power, by way of the story of her humiliation, outweigh the assertions of her power mentioned in the beginning of this myth. In addition, the word choice and language used in the latter perspective further my assessment that limitations of Aphrodite's power outweigh her actual

Obsession is defined as “an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone” (1), and is a prominent theme (in) The Great Gatsby, Enduring Love and Othello. For example, in all three, there is a great desire to obtain things which are unattainable, and in turn this fuels their obsession and causes it to intensify. Furthermore, the act of being obsessive is a common human characteristic, which enforces the fact that obsession is a key element throughout all the texts. Othello has the desire to seek revenge. Fitzgerald shows the desire of lust for Gatsby to have Daisy, whilst also allowing him to accomplish a social desire of fulfilling the American Dream, which was typical of the 1920’s as people were searching for wealth

Fairies, mortals, magic, love, and hate all intertwine to make A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare a very enchanting tale, that takes the reader on a truly dream-like adventure. The action takes place in Athens, Greece in ancient times, but has the atmosphere of a land of fantasy and illusion which could be anywhere. The mischievousness and the emotions exhibited by characters in the play, along with their attempts to double-cross destiny, not only make the tale entertaining, but also help solidify one of the play’s major themes; that true love and it’s cleverly disguised counterparts can drive beings to do seemingly irrational things.

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

Lust spells is the most popular spells of love magic regard to love spells, this spells have plenty of advantages. Lust love spells can be quicker than making love spells and the result of lust spells can be visible, satisfy the interest of the lover. The purpose of the lust spells can be their own or even with the help of the caster ritual.in this spells the women and the man is both interested in sexual interest and put feelings on the backgrounds but this does not rule their purpose of sexual interest this is the result of lust spells this is where lovers can become serious about relationship because it benefit both of them with no judgment basically because of their same interest and common state of mind

Our conscience tries to tell us what is right and what we should do; in short it guides on judging value whereas Eros is more for us to choose the things that we want which includes love. Eros may sometimes go against our conscience for our lust and love of other things. Without balance, there is no integrity of the soul. In order to find balance in Eros and our conscience, we would need to find the middle ground of the two, it is comparable to that of drawing a line in sand where there is no crossing the line. We would need to follow our conscience on what is right but also have the freedom to choose what we want to do. There has to be limitations and that can only be done by strengthening the integrity of a person. As humans, we should not

In the Iliad by Homer, Diomedes a Greek soldier displays excellence in his army. Athena, the god of war, gives Diomedes qualities of a god, which he uses with virtue, making him a Greek hero. In the battle, several gods and mortal fighters lack the knowledge of the costs of war, which creates a lack of virtuous leaders in the fighting. Diomedes fills this gap with his piety, and teaches his victims the effects of battle. His first major victim is Pandarus, a great archer with arrogance, whose tongue he brutally rips out. He then scratches his next victim Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, on her arm, maring her complexion. Diomedes then stabs Ares in the stomach, which cuts off the source of his appetites. Because Diomedes possesses a balanced soul and piety, he provides his victims with contrapasso punishment, that demonstrates to them the cost of war, making him a Greek hero.

Aphroditic got up from her nest and she stretched. She walked out to the opening of her cage. She moaned and look back at her little babies. Aphrodite remembered the first day she killed for their protection, and that thought of her children in danger is what got her up every morning. She took off too soon be hidden behind the trees and come back with many weapons to defend her loved ones. This just comes to show that Aphroditic might look scary and act mean but her protective nature is what's really taking

Lust is having a self-indulgent sexual desire. Susan Minot portrayed the mind of a promiscuous high school female perfectly. Lust is powerful and seductive, but it's inherently selfish and opposed to love. For many girls who are having sex with different boys they can identify with the desire to be needed. The characters in "Lust" are written in a way to highlight the dysfunction and disconnection of everyone involved. The narrator herself is nameless and faceless, making the reader believe that she has already somehow disappeared, just as the men in her life have made her disappear after having sex. Similarly, the men are listed in a brief and are identified only by their sexual acts or by other, easily objectified characteristics. What

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.