Queen Of Someday

Ally Condie’s book, “Matched”, takes place in an unreal world, where society chooses a person’s true love and plans their life. The main character Cassia goes through many problems when society tries to chose her true life, because Cassia falls for someone else and not her true match. Cassia does many things to prove to society that society can not pick Cassias true love. One theme in the book is people should stand by their morals through the bad times.

Laura Esquivel, through this book makes us realize what true love is and what it feels like. Through symbols makes us see that true love will always have barriers to break through. Also how true love will survive anything trying to get in its way if it actually brings happiness and will give off more of it. Laura Esquivel’s comment on the nature of true love just models what it’s like to have true love being attacked to made not work but overcoming that to

This story is crucial for understanding Aristophanes thoughts about love. He has an idea that a human being without love will always feel incomplete. Humans are always in search for their halves, and that happens naturally, this desire is imbedded by nature. The only way to feel complete is to find the half that the one will love. I think Dostoevsky gives a great example of

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"There is no such thing as love anymore, / the kind that is so strong / that you kind of feel it in your bones. / you know we used to feel that emotion / when we looked into the faces of our mother, / father, sisters, brothers, family and friends...This novel is dedicated to the era in which we live. / The era in which love, loyalty, truth, honor, / and respect died. / Where humility and appreciation are nonexistent. / Where families are divided and God reviled, / The era. / The Coldest Winter Ever."

Love has been known to change people for the better. In the book “Pride and Prejudice”, Jane Austen uses various characters to demonstrate the selflessness of love despite the many obstacles that come with love. Love’s selflessness can come in many forms, such as helping others with nothing expected in return and setting aside one's personal beliefs to benefit another person. However, these altruistic moments come with many obstacles as well, like unrequited love and having to swallow one’s pride.

The characters’ only desires revolved around acceptance, but they could never achieve it. The constant cycle of rejection drew the characters into madness, and finally, resulted in violence. Rejection continues as a matter not easy to cope with, an obstacle similar to a vast sea of confusion and emotion, which ultimately caused these characters to transform in an immense

No matter how hard she tries to console herself, however, she is still haunted by the ghost of her deceased daughter. Sophie also experiences a great deal of guilt as a result of her choice, but she handles her feelings differently than Sethe. Instead of trying to comfort herself like Sethe does, she tries to punish herself by dealing with the mental instability of her lover Nathan. At times, Nathan is horribly cruel to Sophie, only to become sweet and loving just hours later. Even though both women cope with their feelings differently, they both cannot completely abolish their guilt.

Romantic love in this particular novel is very hard to judge whether it is necessary for human happiness. I don’t think that it was meant to be the moral of the story, or that love was the basis of this particular novel, but I do think that after reading this that it was necessary in order to be happy. Of course, in one instance, love did end in heartbreak, desolation, and destruction with the scenario of Emil and Maria. But in every story, there has to be a sad moment or a fatality that occurs. But overall, it seemed that Alexandra

Within Marie de France’s lais are found multiple complications within a love plot, and when the reader reaches the end of the tale, all of those difficulties are magically overcome. The idea of love strengthening while enduring hardships is a central plot in Marie de France. Within Marie’s stories such as “Guigemar”, “Le Frense”, and “Lanval” there are love stories that seem to overcome insurmountable complications. Rather, they seemed likely to lead to a tragic ending. However, through the power of love and what seems to be a magical force, everything is resolved and the couples whisk away to live their lives together, or experience another similar magical ending.

Most people probably think the overused theme “love conquers all” is the focus of the story, or even quite possibly the common theme “everything has a consequence,” but that’s not the case. The theme is stated in the story word for word- “Love: It will kill you and save you, both.” In the story, the whole country believes that love will kill you, using common day mental illnesses such as depression and obsessive compulsive disorder as side effects to the euphoria. However, love being a sickness may not be true, it can become a complication many face today. People rip each other apart over the feeling; cheating, lying, and betrayal being major issues.

It not only threatens, but also breaks through. Betrayed by love once in her life, she nevertheless seeks it in the effort to fill the lonely void; thus, her promiscuity. But to adhere to her tradition and her sense of herself as a lady, she cannot face this sensual part of herself. She associates it with the animalism of Stanley's lovemaking and terms it “brutal desire”. She feels guilt and a sense of sin when she does surrender to it, and yet she does, out of intense loneliness. By viewing sensuality as brutal desire she is able to disassociate it from what she feels is her true self, but only at the price of an intense inner conflict. Since she cannot integrate these conflicting elements of desire and gentility, she tries to reject the one, desire, and live solely by the other. Desperately seeking a haven she looks increasingly to fantasy. Taking refuge in tinsel, fine clothes, and rhinestones, and the illusion that a beau is available whenever she wants him, she seeks tenderness and beauty in a world of her own making.

The woman and man caught in their passionate embrace are set above the wartime images. It seems that symbolically the man and woman are above the war, that their love transcends the tragedy and the tumult that surrounds them, if only because they are fighting their own romantic war. Below them is a burning city. The couple on the carriage fleeing the city looks to be the same couple that is staring into each other’s eyes. This further suggests that they were apart of the events in the war, but were still caught in the throws of their own love life. The girl that rushes from her

The novel Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen explores many aspects of everyday and long term life. There are many characters that show different emotions and ideas, and cause the book to become real in the mind, because of the similarities found between the character’s lives and others. These people such as Marianne, Elinor, Willoughby, and Lucy all present different personalities and contribute differently to the composure of the book, and the way the storyline was made. One major aspect of the book is love with its benefits and downfalls, and is arguably the heart of the book, as this is almost constantly a present topic.

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.