Love Is A Fallacy Analysis

Let’s Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Taste centers on Carl Wilson’s quest to discover why we like and dislike certain aspects of our larger culture. Within this search he finds how cultural taste relates to how humans perceive both each other and themselves. Each chapter is an exploration into one part of taste and how it relates to the world beyond the book. In Chapter 7, Wilson explores objectivity. Specifically, he asks: “is there any objectivity in artistic taste?” (Wilson 75). In other words, Wilson is questioning whether objectivity can exist at all in the artistic sphere, or if taste is ultimately ruled by subjectivity and bias. In addition to this question, Wilson also asks how the existence of objectivity or lack thereof

Towards the end of the story, Polly flipped the script on the narrator. Using his own “creation” against him, Polly struck him down with the fallacies she was taught. He felt like a “Frankenstein” rather than a “Pygmalion,” in the situation. From this scenario, there seemed to be no anti-feminism from Polly’s doing. Polly was told the narrator’s feelings, but ensured the narrator that he was committing fallacies to connect emotionally. Polly expressed that she never like the narrator, because she still liked Petey. For after all, Petey had the raccoon coat and preferred that over anything.

Love is such a complicated word, it is so simple to see it as a simple math problem with a one or two letter response but in all actuality, love is much much more complicated. It is this thought that what we have interpreted here on this earth is one type of love and God has another type of love designed for us. In the book “The General Theory of Love” it discusses this idea of love through attachment and how the baby monkey if given a choice can choose whether it gets comfort and safety from one surrogate mother or food and nourishment from another. The result each time is the same, the baby monkey will select the surrogate mother of comfort and safety over nourishment and this result then creates this question of “what is love really?” (Lewis, Amini, Landon, 72).

One way that Tennessee Williams critiques society's views on gender and heterosexual relationships is showing strong hypermasculinity. Dictionary.com define hypermasculinity as “Hypermasculinity is a psychological term for the exaggeration of male stereotypical behavior, such as an emphasis on physical strength, aggression, and sexuality.”. According to this Stanley is the perfect example of a hypermasculine man. In scene one Tennessee writes “Stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red-stained package from a butcher’s.”. Even in the first few pages of the book Stanley is portrayed as a stereotypical primitive like man and continues when Blanche describes Stanley as an “ape”.

The play portrays Stanley’s masculine character in the very beginning. Williams writes, “Stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red-stained package from a butcher’s” (Williams 13). Williams uses props to emphasize Stanley’s ‘primitive’ masculinity. Another use of pros by Williams to portray male dominance, “Stanley, Steve, Mitch, and Pablo wear colored shirts, solid blues, a purple, a red-and-white-check, a light green, and they are men at the

Vonnegut makes use of absurd details in order to portray the negativity of the pursuit of equality. To begin, a young child is found to be extraordinary and in response ”the H-G men [take] George and Hazel Bergeron's fourteen-year-old son” (Vonnegut 1). It is cockamamie that the story begins with government employees physically removing a boy from his family and home. Another continuous detail in the story that is ridiculous is the use of what is known as handicaps. For example,“George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little metal handicap in his ear” (Vonnegut 1). Also, “He tried to think about the ballerinas… They were burdened with sash weights and bags of birdshot, and their face were masked” (Vonnegut 1). In this

He talks about women as if they are objects, not people. “I never met a women that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they've got” (Williams 2.103). He also goes on about how is a man and do not call him otherwise. “ What I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it so don’t ever call me a Polack” (Williams 197). Overall, Stanley is a typical male figure who is aggressive and brutal.

“And the terrible thing, the terrible thing is, but the good thing too, the saving grace, you might say, is that if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think . . . the other person would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough.” In Carver's story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” Mel states this phrase at the table when he’s taking now much different love is in everyone's eyes. The short story combined with the movie Birdman illustrated to me the view of true love in someone’s eyes.

Love is said to be the greatest human experience in which mankind are privilege to partake in. To love can be a wondrous experience filling life with bliss and other strong emotions. Some people believe to love is to be alive and be able to see the good in the world and others. The purpose of this paper is to examine and find a better understanding of what is love, to explore what people believe love to be, and what lies surround the perception of love and to explore and expose what the meaning true love is or at the very least the authors understanding of the perception of love. In addition to exploring the concept, deception and the truth of love,

“And I am the king around here, so don’t forget it” Stanley responds aggressively, smashing plates to assert dominance over Stella when she requests help with the dishes, stereotypically a feminine job of this era. Emma Wislow, (student of American Literature) explored a different angle of Stanley’s masculinity “Stanley is not a sheep, just a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” She talks of a metaphorical coat which he wears when convenient, and believes he utilises vulnerability to manipulate Stella back to him when his actions result in her absence. In my opinion, Stanley’s display of manipulative behaviour confirms the toxicity of his masculinity.

First off, throughout the book, one comes to realize that Vonnegut has a way of making Billy Pilgrim seem more like a boy than a man in this book. The references like the too small of a coat or the

One boundless power in our universe is the power of love, which rips down barriers and creates a world where everything is in harmony. Love’s immense strength can be portrayed throughout literature. In Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, and John Green’s book, Fault in Our Stars, the theme that love overpowers everything is conveyed throughout the pages. In Shakespeare’s play, two-star crossed lovers fall in love despite the quarrel of their families. In John Green’s book, two cancer-stricken teenagers fall in love despite their limitations. The theme of love overpowering everything is evident in both stories through the external conflicts that failed to prevent their love, the lovers going great lengths to see each other, and deaths of the other lover.

Max Shulman’s piece, “Love is a fallacy” expresses many arguments expressed during every day social interactions. In the piece, the author comes into contact with his roommate, Petey Bellows and a possible love interest, Polly Espy. The author makes many unjustified guess pertaining to their wisdom and intelligence, and these false pretenses contribute to his interactions with the two, and he aims to take advantage of the opportunity of manipulating the two into achieving his own selfish desires. His plan backfires, and he is forced to reconsider his actions. In the process, Max Shulman reveals that his piece is both anti-women, anti-men, and Shulman underestimates the intuitive and emotional aspects of love.

So I gave my father’s coat to Petey and got Petey’s girlfriend named Polly. I was aware that the successful lawyers married to beautiful, gracious, intelligent women. Without

Love as a revolutionary act for change is not new to social activism. Treating people with love and respect is a ideaology that society teaches at a young age. However, as life pans on, and young children turn to adults their world perception changes as they begin to realize that the society that they live in only preaches love, but never follows through with actions. As individuals grow up and begin to face disparities, death, and hardships it becomes easier and easier to hate and messages of love begin to sound cliché. However, it is no coincidence that most if not all of the great leaders of social change have emphasized a love ethic in their practice of social justice. Hooks declares that “hate is at the root of oppression and world domination” and that hate is the only force that can sustain oppression; therefore, many believe that only love can challenge oppression. In the black community hatred, oppression, and suffering are daily experiences, hence, love in the black community is important because black self-love is the only thing that can combat the hate which drives white supremacy. Black self-love is unique and important because it is constantly challenged and threatened by society. The threat against black love began in the slave trade, where blacks were torn from loved ones, forced to adopt new cultures, and forced to abandon part of themselves in order to survive and this legacy continues as society teaches black individuals to live up to a white standard.