In many facets of society, romantic love is portrayed as a benevolent emotion that makes everyone experiencing it eternally happy. Unfortunately, things do not always turn out that way. In reality, love is confusing, and it affects lovers in ways that they themselves do not understand. Love causes confusing and conflicting emotions that lead to intense effects which change relationships with others by making those relationships hard to understand.
Love can cause confusing and conflicting emotions for those experiencing it, ultimately leading to being a different person. The confounding feelings that lovers often feel are well-desribed in in an oxymoron used by London, while remarking on the feelings he experiences during his extramarital affair,
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Foer addresses the difficulties when he uses juxtapositional writing while describing the different states of a couple’s relationship. He writes, “We were always never mentioning it, because we didn’t know what it was. I did nothing but look for you for twenty-seven years. I didn’t even know how electricity worked. We tried spending more time not together.” As the character’s relationship progresses, the emotions they feel towards each other, including love, begin to change, causing them to be confused about where they are in their relationship. The idea that love makes relationships confusing does not only apply to long married couples, but also younger relationships, such as London’s. He uses a metaphor for the incomprehensibility of his relationship with his mistress when he writes, “We may feel in common - surely, we oftimes do - and when we do not feel in common, yet we do understand; and yet we have no common tongue.” While London and his love do in fact speak the same language, he often don’t understand her or their relationship because the feeling of true love that he never got with his wife warps his mind and prevents him from seeing the world in the same way he has in the
Compare the views of relationships in ‘The Unequal Fetters’ with those in ‘To his Coy Mistress’. What is suggested about the different ways in which men and women view love?
Love is a mountain range. It has peaks and valleys, high points and low ones. If someone or something falls off the mountain, people can get badly hurt. Climbing a mountain is very complicated, and one might choose a different path to go on at any point.
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.
Such is the common scene with which the typical romantic comedy presents its climax. Our two protagonists, by a classic case of woeful misunderstanding, find themselves torn apart. However, the audience never experiences any real worry over this because as we know, our protagonists will always ultimately end up returning to one another after realizing life simply cannot go on without their other half. Their continuance of their love for one another even after whatever circumstances the writer chooses for them to overcome, is what marks how destined their relationship must be. Of course, the predicament that halts their relationship both abruptly and briefly, is often some variance of an obviously scandalous case of misunderstanding whether our male protagonist is in love with the relatively minor female character with whom he spoke with once versus our female protagonist, with whom he has done all but said “I love you” to.
In modern society, love is a buzzing topic. Whether it be true-love or the mushy Valentine’s Day cards, love is all around. Love is something the human mind thrives on, for it creates a sense of calm and peace, thus making it human nature to yearn for love. In literature, there are many “love stories”. William Shakespeare, often called a true expert on love (based on his many plays, sonnets, etc.), has written many of these “love stories”. One of the most well-known stories is Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet, often remarked as one of Shakespeare’s greatest works, is a perfect example of false love. Throughout the course of the play, it is revealed in many ways this is a story of artificial devotion in which Juliet is in love, and Romeo is
Throughout the play, readers see many relationships with variations of love that can be described as extraordinarily romantic or just “in love”. This
“The course of true love never did run smooth,” comments Lysander of love’s complications in an exchange with Hermia (Shakespeare I.i.136). Although the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream certainly deals with the difficulty of romance, it is not considered a true love story like Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare, as he unfolds the story, intentionally distances the audience from the emotions of the characters so he can caricature the anguish and burdens endured by the lovers. Through his masterful use of figurative language, Shakespeare examines the theme of the capricious and irrational nature of love.
Love is a highly debatable concept. Is it merely a confusion of the natural functions of human brains or is it a force that extends beyond human control leaving victims naked to its influence? Are people able to choose their lovers or are the functions of love the deciding factor? To find these answers look not only into the actions of people, but absorb the insight into the human psyche that literature lends the mind from within its pages.
“The course of true love never did run smooth,” comments Lysander of love’s complications in an exchange with Hermia (Shakespeare I.i.136). Although the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream certainly deals with the difficulty of romance, it is not considered a true love story like Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare, as he unfolds the story, intentionally distances the audience from the emotions of the characters so he can caricature the anguish and burdens endured by the lovers. Through his masterful use of figurative language, Shakespeare examines the theme of the capricious and irrational nature of love.
The theme of love was developed in three African American Literature works; “Sweat” by Zora Hurston, “Long Black Song” by Richard Wright, and “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” by Gwendolyn Brooks ; each author allowing their main character to express doubtable love with their significant other.
How has our perception of love changed throughout the centuries? In today’s media, our perception of romance has been distorted due to movies, tv shows, and songs. While in the Middle Ages, literature and ballads were how most people learned about romantic love. “Stories told through the ages to describe variations of love as it is found, challenged, lost, denied or thwarted, only to flare up again, carrying all before it, or else destroying the lovers in a conflagration of desire .” Although, our culture is more open and accepting of relationships, in the Middle Ages, secrecy and adulterous relationships were normal in order to have love and romance.
In a world obsessed with the possession of "things," it is ironic to see that all people seek one thing that is completely intangible, love. Love can't be held, bought, manipulated, traded, forgotten, or stolen. Love is pure, honest, true, fulfilling, and most of all valuable. Love is not limited either. An unknown author once wrote, "Trying to bring pleasure to someone, because of the pleasure you feel to see that person's pleasure, is perhaps the most beautiful demonstration of love." Isn’t amazing how something so powerful can be found in the simplest of things. In my life I have felt love in many aspects of my life. I love my family, my friends, my country, my life, and myself. These are all the
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