Giovanni Boccaccio and Francis Petrarch's Differing Views on Love

love and sacrifice for his son and wife. Guido’s reassurance to his wife that they are safe is

Love, in 'Romeo and Juliet' has its own importance in the theme of inner struggle between the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is torn between staying loyal to her family and therefore obeying her parents to marry Paris or staying married to an enemy, Romeo, “My husband lives, that Tybalt has slain; / And Tybalt's dad, that would have slain my husband: / All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?” (3:2). On the other hand, Romeo has his struggles too. He juggles between the idea of banishment from Verona and not being able to see his beloved Juliet again and that of death, “Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say 'death'.” (3:3). The secret marriage between Romeo and Juliet is also one of the outcomes due to love. It is because of love that Juliet risked her parents' disapproval to not marry Paris and Romeo risked the danger of being killed by Capulet's kinsmen to go to see her. Yet again, this shows the inner struggle of Romeo and Juliet.

Love is a drug that feels good in the moment but has negative consequences later on. This is shown in Romeo and Juliet when Mercutio and Romeo are about to enter the Capulet's feast. Romeo states,"Under love's heavy burden, do I sink." (Act 1 Scene 4) Personification is utilised to verify that love may feel light, but when it is passionate it tends to be heavy that it sinks you deep into your conscience where you can't escape from it. In that same scenario, another excerpt is being incorporated to reinforce that love is a drug that feels good but has negative consequences. "Is love a tender thing? Is it too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like thorn." (Act 1 Scene 4) A rhetorical question and a simile are applied to this particular excerpt to identify and imply that love is unpredictable and it may not always account for what you want it to or

Throughout William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, the characters represent opposing views on love. Shakespeare did this in order to allow each person in the play to have someone they could relate to and show that not everybody feels love the same way.

When a character in Romeo and Juliet loses someone they love dearly and has made them a part of their identity, they willingly welcome death and leave their true identity. This

In life, one of the most baffling motifs that presents itself is the feeling of love. Whether you take it when you have it or be scared and back away is up to you. However, when you decide to take it and embrace it freely, this is when is when people finally decide to open up and be their true self. In the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, the author portrays a contrasting theme between how life and death relates with how dramatic their love can be.

Although love is typically a positive emotion or concept, it is most often truly a more negative notion, due to its consequences. Love is known to bring people together in the beginning, but also tends to customarily pull or even break people apart by causing chaos and rivalry. The loss of love could even cause insecurities to surface. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of the lovers, Helena, is scorched by love’s misfortunes when it comes between her and her ex-lover, Demetrius.The misfortunes of love force Helena into becoming an insecure woman who allows her emotions to cloud her judgement.

Love is spoken about a lot in all of these stories, one thing that these stories talk about is love can come with a cost. As you will see in these stories ( Romeo and Juliet, Pyramus and Thisbe, and Duty) there will be death due to love.

In William shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, we follow the tale of two lovers from enemy/warring families. They get married, only to have Romeo banished for revenging the death of his friend by killing Tybalt Juliet's cousin. The story ends with both Romeo and Juliet dead, which leads their warring families to peace. In this story, one of the recurring themes is about love; Shakespeare shares that being away from the ones you love can bring pain to all involved, and should be avoided.

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is one of the highest commended love stories of all time. Many can take away life lessons and morals about how one should not allow their fatal flaws shine through to cause grief and destruction to those around them. One of the two main characters, Romeo, has the tragic flaw of impulsivity; and because of this, is predestined to cause woe in the hearts of those whom he loves the most. The author, William Shakespeare, uses syntax and diction to create a melancholic tone, which conveys that, while one may try, they cannot escape their tragic flaw that will ultimately cause their demise.

This quote exhibits two important qualities of love. One, it portrays the marvelous side of love that everyone strives to obtain. Two, it shows the lousy and often overlooked side of love. It does this by describing love as smoke. If the smoke clears, the lovers are entranced in each other’s love. If not, it leads to tears or in other words sadness. On a basic level, Shakespeare shows one that depending on how one treats love it will lead that person to either great happiness and prosperity, or despair and grief. Based on these conclusions, by putting this message so early in the book he foreshadows the later sadness throughout the book that Romeo and Juliet’s love will cause. In order for Romeo and Juliet’s love to conquer the hate, they have to watch for the unpleasant repercussions of their love that may strain their relationship. Moreover, another way Shakespeare demonstrates Romeo and Juliet’s heartwarming relationship is by showing some of the later consequences their relationship causes. Shakespeare shows some of these ramifications when Juliet’s closest family members find out that Juliet is dead, Lord Capulet states, “Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak” (Shakespeare, 201) This quote displays the sadness that Juliet has caused to her family. Her dad overwhelmed with sadness, can’t cry because as a father, Lord Capulet’s only will to live was for Juliet. The reason Juliet fakes her death is to be with Romeo. In her mind, her love for Romeo is more important than anything else. Juliet’s disregard for how her actions may affect others demonstrates ignorance on her part. Her stupidity leaves everyone in her family hurting and begging for mercy. Despite overcoming the hate for her relationship by finding an otherwise ingenious solution to the problem. It leads to other problems. Consequently, everyone’s lives are now worse, because Juliet

The Decameron, by Boccaccio, is a frame story written in the mid fourteenth century. There are a hundred stories told over a span of ten days. On the second day, a man tells a story about a princess, Alatiel, who was sent away to marry a king. Before Alatiel reaches her destination, she has sexual experiences with a lot of different men. Alatiel is treated like an object and allows this objectification to happen because she is so fickle and does nothing to stop the men. The fickleness of Alatiel and the treatment of her as an object is evident throughout the story.

in the future we may not experience what we did in the past. Having something,

Plato was a philosopher from Classical Greece and an innovator of dialogue and dialect forms which provide some of the earliest existing analysis ' of political questions from a philosophical perspective. Among some of Plato 's most prevalent works is his dialogue the Symposium, which records the conversation of a dinner party at which Socrates (amongst others) is a guest. Those who talk before Socrates share a tendency to celebrate the instinct of sex and regard love (eros) as a god whose goodness and beauty they compete. However, Socrates sets himself apart from this belief in the fundamental value of sexual love and instead recollects Diotima 's theory of love, suggesting that love is neither beautiful nor good because it is the desire to possess what is beautiful, and that one cannot desire that of which is already possessed. The ultimate/primary objective of love as being related to an absolute form of beauty that is held to be identical to what is good is debated throughout the dialogue, and Diotima expands on this description of love as being a pursuit of beauty (by which one can attain the goal of love) that culminates in an understanding of the form of beauty. The purpose of this paper is to consider the speeches presented (i.e. those of Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, and Agathon) in Plato 's Symposium as separate parts that assist in an accounting of the definition and purpose of platonic love.

This is a translation of the Italian poem "Rime 140" by Petrarch. The following link - shows the original form and two translations - each poem is different. They are built around the conceit of love as a warrior or knight, who, in the octave, makes bold to declare himself through a blush, and is promptly rebuked by the beloved; the sestet finds him running away to hide, leaving the poet to reflect on his plight as a faithful servant of a cowardly master. By attributing the offensive, cowardly, and ridiculous behavior to a third-party “love,” he appears to be distancing himself from an embarrassing situation. He can condescendingly paint this personified love as a blustery miles glorious one moment and a coward the next, while at the same