Love In Kurt Vonnegut's 'Crazy In Love'

When emotion overwhelms you, you have two choices; let it eat away at you slowly, each and every day, or attempt to purge it from your memory. Into Thin Air is Jon Krakauer’s way of preventing himself from going insane and parting with his overwhelming emotions. Although I have not first-handedly experienced traumatizing events in the same way Krakauer has, I relate to the want, or need, to dispose of extreme thoughts through art. Contrastingly, I often part with my emotions through vague paintings only I can accurately decipher, while Krakauer parts with his emotions through a twenty one chapter novel in which he gives the readers nearly excessive details about not only his emotions, but also the emotions and hardships of others. While reading

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.” – Tim Burton. We people have a tendency to live our life in suffer for the past because it’s terrifying to face the truth. Unaware that it affects our fellow human beings. Stephen King’s short story “The man who loved flowers” manages to blur the lines between normality and insanity while digging down in the fear of love.

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Throughout William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers fall in love. In the end, they kill themselves over one another. Between these two teenagers, only physical attraction was present. The “star-crossed” lovers faced many trials, and ultimately lost. The lack of Amor doomed Romeo and Juliet’s relationship.

When society like Haiti interprets years of social oppression it becomes normal for some to believe that the hierarchical system should remain to systematically opposed the weak. That what happen when Duvalier regime took into power and reinforce the explortation of their own people. Marie Chauvet,” Love, Anger, Madness”, illustrates such a literary piece of work that not only capture the eyes of people but it also put her life in danger because she wrote about the tyranny racial social system and lack of freedom of expression and speech that women faced. There were several female writers at that time, but Chauvet work not only criticize the government, but it questions the elitist that said they fought for the middle and lower class people.

Kurt Vonnegut’s basic concern in these two novels is based on the complexities of human situation. Kurt Vonnegut mainly focuses on the disordered cycle of life and death to which all human beings are inseparably bound. His works represent the purely existential horrors faced by men due to the uncontrollable growth in the technical

In today’s day and age, the concept of love is distorted to fit the media’s popularized idea of love. The Road is essentially a love story, as it focuses on the familial love shared between the man and the boy. As expressed in the novel, the man unconditionally loves the boy, and regards him as his source of hope and light in the colorless world. In dangerous situations, the man gives the boy the pistol that they carry with them on the road. He does this presumably to protect the boy in the event that they cross paths with the bad guys. McCarthy reveals to the audience that the man “took the boy’s hand and pushed the revolver in it. Take it, he whispered. Take it. The boy was terrified. He put his arm around him and held him. His body so thin. Dont be afraid, he said. If they find you you are going to have to do it. Do you understand? Shh, No crying. Do you hear me? You know how to do it. You put it in your mouth and point it up. Do it quick and hard. Do you understand? Stop crying” (pg. 112-113). In this scene, McCarthy makes known of the fact that the man puts the boy before himself. He tells the boy to commit suicide if the bad guys were ever to discover their current whereabouts. This indicates love in its true and raw form. And not the type of love that is commonly romanticized in the media.

People often lose who they are in a blink of an eye. Edith Wharton is a brilliant, natural writer whose personal life inspired her ability to write “Ethan Frome”. She introduces Frome, a man whose illusion and infatuation rose up to a peak of a mountain causing his undesirable relationship with his wife to crack, like a hot glass submerged into cold water. In particular, the infatuation Frome introduces in the book is considered to be part of an obsession. One often falls in love with the idea of love, which causes for most to get lost in a passionate cloud.

Love is said to be one of the most desired things in life. People long for it, search for it, and crave it. It can come in the form of partners, friends, or just simply family. To some, love is something of a necessity in life, where some would rather turn a cold shoulder to it. Love can be the mixture of passion, need, lust, loyalty, and blood. Love can be extraordinary and breathtaking. Love being held so high can also be dangerous. Love can drive people to numerous mad things with it dangerously so full of craze and passion.

Much Ado About Nothing is a classic play written by William Shakespeare. It follows the story of a young prince, Claudio, returning home after fighting in a war. Claudio has reached his prime and is ready to settle down. However, a lot more drama than necessary takes place, and as a result we are able to exam several different types of relationships in the play. The relationships between characters sets a definition for different kinds of love. The types of love to be studied include: romantic love, love between friends, and family love. By comparing and contrasting these different kinds of love and affection we will be able to understand the working relationships between the characters better.

In this article from Time magazine entitled “Crazy Love”, the author Steven Pinker, discusses the implications of falling in love, the extent of its effect on human beings, and the methodology of people’s endeavors to find potential spouses. The author argues that experiencing love has the power to drive humans to take actions that under rational circumstances, they would likely not partake in. Pinker asserts that the symptoms of romantic infatuation are “different from both raw lust and the enduring commitment that keeps lovers together.” That we as human beings should all know the symptoms: the idealization of our significant others, massive mood swings that vary from ecstasy to despair, the inability to eat or sleep, and the “intense need for signs of reciprocated feelings.” He

You’ll be mine and I’ll be yours. Everything will be perfect until one screws up, but what if no one screws up? Yes, if no one screws up you made it to the finish line of a “happily ever after”. Love is such a crazy thing, one day is alive and growing and the next is fading until it completely dies. Everyone will have their own view on love, but love is vague, for one knows about today but not about tomorrow. In her critique of love, “Against Love,” Laura Kipnis offers a judgmental version of what constitutes “real love”. She questions whether we truly desire love, or rather, are conditioned to. She asserts that social forms accustomed us to pursue a love life so that we are entertained and wanted. But everyone has a different opinion on the matter. In his short story, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” Raymond Carver tells the story of four different individuals in which he explores the perceptions of love by referring to their beliefs and experiences. One of the four characters, Mel, seems to have an unclear perspective on love himself as he questions his love life and asserts that everyone is entitled to look for love when is missing. If Mel was to have a conversation with Kipnis they would agree and disagree on certain ideas, for they both are able to understand the complexity of the matter. Mel would agree with Kipnis that society forces one to feel like a failure when love dies and that people move on because society expects us to, as he questions his

“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion tells the stories of Taylor and Equality beautifully, as an immense amount of conflicts and actions end up sharing a reaction; for example, setting the human race back to the dark ages. Along with human advancement eventually setting technology and life back thousands of years, these two stories share another element: love. It may create actions that someone would incline to do in a normal mindset. However, a gigantic misconception about all literature happens to be that the hero archetype has to always succeed, which goes against Anthem’s story. Human advancement creates a downfall in almost every instance in literature, falling hand in hand with love summoning ideas that would usually be nonexistent.

One of the sweet comforts in life is to curl up in a favorite chair with a short story that will briefly carry people away from their everyday lives. On rare occasions, a tale mirrors real life in such a way that one is strangely comforted by the normalcy reflected in the words. A perfect example of a story about ordinary life that will soothe the soul in search for some insight on understanding the human behavior is Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Pet Dog.” This style of writing has such a mass appeal because the characters wear recognizable social masks and reflect an everyday reality. In his simple story of a chance meeting between a middle-aged, chauvinistic, repeat-offender adulterer, unhappily married man, and a young, naïve,

One of the main themes of War and Peace is the irrational nature of human behaviour. A clear example of this is the scandalous affair between Natasha Rostov and Anatole Kuragin. Natasha Rostov was happily engaged to Prince Andrey Bolkonsky, but suddenly ended the engagement because she fell in love with Anatole within a 3-day span and wished to elope and run away with him. Her cousin Sonya, upon learning of the affair directly from Natasha, commented “Natasha, I can’t believe you, you’re joking. In three days to forget everything, and like this…” (659). To this, Natasha responds “It seems to me as though I have loved him for a hundred years… You can’t understand that” (659). This relates to how irrational impulses are logical to an individual, but seldom to anyone else. To Natasha, following her heart means finding happiness, but her desires also blind her from reality and concrete truth.