Guilt, Duty, and Unrequited Love

In the reading, Norms and Priorities in a Love Ethics not only does Janssens discuss the acts of moral goodness and moral badness, but he also speaks on the knowledge and judgment of moral rightness and moral wrongness. Moral goodness and moral badness is drawn out from the heart. When someone is morally aware of his or hers good or bad intentions, they become consciously aware of what they are doing. The person is understanding the difference between good and bad. Janssens went on to say in the reading Norms and Priorities in a Love Ethics that our good disposition is the origin of our motivation and intentions.

The tale of forbidden love binds itself within many famous works of literature in order to provoke the human mind into situations similar to those of Adam and Eve of the Bible. The “forbidden fruit” plays an important role in the books of Ethan Frome and Jane Eyre in the form of unattainable but beloved women, where two men, Ethan Frome and Mr. Edward Rochester, share common distinguishable attributes. Their serene sensitive nature soon explodes into a passionate cause, later revealing a bare, desperate soul that longs for their beloved “forbidden fruit.”

One’s moral duty is often conflicted with an emotional drive or a strong passion. The drive it takes to deviate from knowing what is right and wrong can lead to unfavorable outcomes, such as suffering. Not only does this engagement establish a war within the mind, but it also hinders certain responsibilities. In Edith Wharton’s novel Ethan Frome, the protagonist, Ethan, encounters a dilemma: his strong feelings for his wife’s cousin, Mattie, compels him to reconsider his devotion to Zeena. Ethan allows himself to seize feelings for Mattie, through which he disregards his moral duties to his wife, typifying that addressing a private passion over responsibility can lead to suffering.

When reading Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You The Sun, the presence of foreshadowing allows the reader to gain a deeper insight into Jude’s life, shedding light onto the greater theme of fate. At a young age, Jude falls in love with a drawing Noah did of a man. She would do anything for that drawing, even trade the metaphorical sun. Jude’s extreme desire for the sketch is demonstrated when she replies, “‘Oh all right,’ she says, totally surprising me. ‘I’ll give you the sun.’ ‘I practically have everything now!’ I say. ‘You’re crazy!’ ‘But I have him.’ She carefully rips the naked english guy out of my sketchbook” (Nelson 74). Jude felt as if the english man was speaking to her, drawing her towards the portrait. This unexplainable connection foreshadows

Upon hindsight following the two novels, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, one would label the monster and Heathcliff to be nothing short of villainous characters. Throughout each individual novel the two leads perform heinous actions that should leave readers feeling repulsed, and with no ounce of sympathy towards the principal characters; nonetheless, it is impossible not to. Heathcliff and the monster are not evil but rather characters to sympathize, both are the products of their environment and correspondingly, although for divergent reasons, are motivated by the supereminent emotions—love and hate.

A common conflict in many different books and stories is the classic love triangle. This

To most, Pride and Prejudice is a work of romance and social satire; an apex in wit and dialogue. There are no spectres at Pemberley nor is there an insatiable tyrant or haunted castle at Derbyshire. However, there is a sense of fear amongst many of the characters. The houses are often large and hiding a painful secret. And love, at least between a few, transcends the boundary into the supernatural; or at least has elements thereof. Contrary to its popular, and overly common, definition and perception, I will argue that Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (hereon referred to as P&P) is an established piece of Gothic fiction, as it

Comparable to Noah and her father’s relationship, Jude and her mother are combative with one another. Jude despises the fact that their mother considers Noah to be the better artist, and that their mother fawns over his dream to get into California School of the Arts. She projects her anger into arguments and disobeys her mom out of rebellion. She wears to short of clothes out to parties and puts on heavy makeup to draw more attention to herself. In response to Jude’s desire for her mother’s love and acceptance, she seeks to fill the gap in other places. She befriends older boys, and mistakes their interest for love. “Does M. love me? No” (Nelson 80). She befriends ‘hornets’ that swarm around everyone to cause disorder. She befriends everyone except her brother, who was once her very best friend. ☺ I’ll Give You The Sun shows that love is fickle, and nothing can replace love from someone they want the most, no matter how hard one

it killed me to accept that i was such an ugly person. That i managed to push away everyone that I truly cared about. Did you see? How perfectly I played it? Like it didn't even hurt... like I was tired of the tedious speeches i had to go through everyday; telling you that I didn't want you or that you never mattered to me. And you actually had the guts to believe it all. If you could see my insides screaming at me, if you could, for a second peak at my dying heart, to just get a glimpse you would understand the monstrous act I play every time we see each other. But aggravate all you want, this beast only does this for its own protection. Who are you to think that you can just come here and change my rules? to bend my lifestyles? To make me a poet?

In the following essay, Simpson discusses images of nature and society in "A Shameful Affair."

To humans, life is beautiful, and wonderful, and yet it is also tedious, miserable, and fleeting, but there is always supposed to be love, and love is considered a feeling so essential to life that it is universally wanted and craved, but at what cost? How much harder does life become when one’s love is the cause of their suffering. Winterbourne is in love with a girl who will never love him, and Arthur Dimmesdale’s love and sin was the cause of his death. Santiago loved the giant marlin who was eaten before he could use him to stop his unluckiness. Tom Buchanan loved Daisy and he loved Myrtle and led to Myrtle’s and Gatsby’s demise. John Proctor loved Abigail, and Abigail’s continuing love for him brought upon his death and jeopardized his wife’s life. Each book demonstrates how life is agonizing and terrible for its characters all because of someone they loved.

In the play Hamlet, the relationships between the different characters were destroyed because of Hamlets frustrations and other characters suspicions. Hamlet and Ophelia once had a very passionate love affair. Ophelias father Polonius and brother Laertes did not agree with their relationship. Laertes told Ophelia that she could not have a relationship with Hamlet because For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more. Act I scene III 3 Laertes is implying that Hamlet is not the right age for her, and he is comparing Hamlets love of Ophelia to the violet, which flowers early in the spring, but doesnt live long. If it were not for Polonius and Laertess influence on Ophelia, and Ophelias willingness to go along with everything her father and brother tell her to do, many tragedies could have been avoided such as Hamlets insanity, and the death of most of the main characters. The relationship between Gertrude and Claudius caused many problems. Gertrudes husband King Hamlet was killed, and the reader learns that it was Claudius that killed King Hamlet in act I scene V. Two months later, Claudius and Gertrude married, and Hamlet was not happy. The marriage between Claudius and Gertrude

Love, arguably one of the strongest human feelings, is brought to extreme measures in the tale of Romeo and Juliet by the playwright William Shakespeare. In this play, two people by the names of Romeo and Juliet become lovers, but their love is restricted by the desires of their feuding families. Their strong affection for each other proves to be lethal when a plan for the two of them to meet goes wrong, causing their intense love to end in tragedy. This intense infatuation that existed between the two characters was definitely the reason behind many of their unwise decisions. In the article “Watching New Love as it Sears the Brain” by Benedict Carey, love indeed plays a significant role in the decisions that

Love triangles have been repeated many times throughout history and about 150 years ago, it was repeated again. It was the year 3,361, there were two men and only one woman; see where this is going? Well you see this love triangle was special because the brothers co-owned a land that was once called “The United States of America”. This title was outgrown long ago once it became a dictatorship instead of a democracy. Back to the love triangle though; the 2 men were brothers, which was problematic for many reason. The brothers names were sir Palamon Cavallaro and Sir Arcite Cavallaro and they both fell in love with Lady Emily. The brothers were best friends and had great potential to rule the kingdom in unity, they were happy.

“The Iranian government sees trans and homosexual individuals as people with psychosexual problems, and so provide them with a medical solution”(Neha Thirani Bagri, An Uncomfortable Truth, qz). People around the world do not get the rights they deserve because the government influences and limits people's actions. Nobody should be living in fear, feel held back, or discriminated against because of their sex, race, religion or sexual orientation. Everyone should be given the right of protection, be treated with respect, and not have to live in fear because of who they are.