The Gargoyle

Love is a powerful emotion that every human being has experience at least once in their life. There are numerous connotations that refer to this emotion, but there is only one kind of love that can make a person change completely in unexpected ways. It is the kind of love that consumes the soul and everything within. Mixed with excitement, adventure, heartbreak, happiness and joy; it is a big ball of feelings, all concentrated in one simple, yet extremely complicated necessity to have, protect, please and give all of oneself to that one person. In certain occasions, love can grow very intense and, consequently,

Ever since the beginning of time, love has played an enormous role among humans. Everyone feels a need to love and to be loved. Some attempt to fill this yearning with activities and possessions that will not satisfy – with activities in which they should not participate and possessions they should not own. In Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” the speaker encounters an emotion some would call love but fits better under the designation of lust for a woman. In contrast, the speaker of Robert Herrick’s poem, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” urges virgins to marry, to make a lasting commitment in which love plays a

     In contrast to these fairly pessimistic views on love, the author describes an instance in which a couple found true love. Mel tells an anecdote of an old couple that was admitted to the emergency room after a very bad car accident. The two people were wrapped up in full body casts, and as a result they could not see each other. Mel noticed that the old man was very sad, even

The past can tell a lot about someone 's life and personality. In literature the use of flashback gives insight to both the characters as well as the plot of the story. Both Neil Gaiman’s “How to talk to Girls at Parties” and Edgar Allen Poe’s “ The Cask of Amontillado” show examples of using this literary device and how it affects the story. Not only does the use of flashback give insight to the character’s background and motivation ,but also affects both stories in tone and characterization.

7. What might be important to know about the creator of binding yourself to another?

Love is officially defined as an intense feeling of deep affection. Yet, many scholars believe that love is such a potent emotion that mere words alone can not entirely capture its beauty. In fact, the ambiguity of love and its many nuances has served as a main motif for many famous literary works--such as Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby, to name a couple. One of the many subtleties of the concept of love is what constitutes as a prosperous relationship. Some may argue that in order for one to maintain a healthy relationship, one must be willing to sacrifice negative traits and/or behaviors. Others will counter that true love is met in the acceptance of any and all imperfections of another, and that any sacrificial attempt made to please the other partner is pointless conformity. The stories of Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote provide an excellent focal point to analyze the arguments above, because the two key characters, Charlie and Holly respectively, both exhibit self destructive behavior that inhibit their ability to maintain a prosperous relationship; however, Holly seeks to retain her self destructive characteristics whereas Charlie instead aims to abolish them.

Gargoyles are used to funnel water away from the cathedral to keep the water from eroding the foundations. As such, they have a trough in their backs to funnel the water to their mouths, and then away from the building. Said mouths are always open, and can never close given the fact that they are made of stone. There are usually aqueducts and other similar things leading to gargoyles from all around the cathedral, to better get rid of the water left over from rainstorms. Also, they are generally seen as charms to ward off evil spirits.

Gargoyle is a place that lies deep in to the earth’s core but not all the way down but just close. The place is very hot so the rocks melted and created these rock guardians that love the hot weather. They love to destroy and crush and they created something that no one would ever imagine. Their own little world that looks so cool because they have lava fountains. The Rock Guardians were so lonely that they created 4,509 creatures like them by putting the rocks in the lava fountain.

One of the most interesting topics to discuss in our society is love. As a people we have always enjoyed debating and arguing about it’s ideals and significance. In fact, our infatuation with love has been ongoing for centuries. For example, some of the oldest and most stimulating admirers of the concept are thought to have been the Ancient Greeks. The Greeks were captivated not only by the idea of love, but by the Greek God, whose namesake the concept took after: Eros. They loved Eros and he was often described as a wonderful deity; a lover of beauty and everything good. However, there were some who questioned the true meaning behind the god and the concept; one of it’s most famous contemplators being the philosopher Plato. Plato disagreed

If you were a gargoyle on top of the Notre Dame Cathedral, you would see the Eiffel Tower and the city around it. You would see many tourists coming and going with their cameras taking pictures. You see the people rushing around to get to the places they need to go slowly disappear at night as they go to sleep. You see the romance of lovers in the city spending their days together and see the heartbreak of another. You notice how the rain can give people negative emotions and how the sun makes them go away. You will see the how small people can be the further away they are. As a gargoyle; life doesn’t sound too bad. The issue is that you can only see these things. Gargoyles are witnesses to everything, but that is all they are. They cannot

Love is a concept that has been dissected and criticized since the beginning of time. People can see, feel, and hear love but understanding the theory behind how love comes to be and the purpose behind it has always been a mystery. Many psychologists and sociologists have engaged in the conversation of love, including Ira Reiss. Reiss is a sociologist with a primary interest in love and sexual behaviors. He proposed his own wheel theory of love which can be applied in analyzing the book Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf. This story is about two elderly neighbors, Addie Moore and Louis Waters, and how their relationship flourished from being neighborly to love one another. In reviewing this piece of literature, a person can clearly see the four stages of Reiss’ Wheel Theory and how they developed at different times.

Many cruel things in the world are done in the name of “love.” But in what face of love are these acts fulfilled through? Is it through friendship? Or mere affection? Perhaps lust? Or, though unlikely, unconditional love? The nature of love is a prominent theme in Till We Have Faces. Every relationship in this book is unique -- there are no two alike. In every relationship, there is a “love” factor. Unfortunately, in English, there are no words to distinguish different types of the love being felt. One can love creatures, reading, and family members, but those are all entirely separate interpretations of the word “love.” That being said, Lewis saw the same inconsistencies and decided to dissect the meaning of love in his book The Four Loves. He connected many of findings to the characters throughout Till We Have Faces who portray elements of the four different loves: Storge, Philia, Eros, and Agape. Each of these loves plays a crucial part in the plot of the story.

“Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. (Love’s Labours Lost. 1.2.)” This Shakespearean quote relies on the fact that love can lead to many misfortunes, presented as one of the aspects of love in both William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and Wole Soyinka’s “The Lion and the Jewel”. One aspect of love demonstrates its brilliant sides, and with it, brings affection, faith, and intimacy. However, it is also noted that an equal aspect of love conveys the consequences and misfortunes, the negative connotations of love, which the essay will be exploring, broken down into several characteristics: lust, manipulation, and hatred, which both plays share in correspondence and in distinction. In A Midsummer

Love, since the beginning of time, has had a place in every literature no matter the time period. The world that we live in is complex and often times, love and reason do not exist interconnect, however, literature acts as the glue in bringing these two elements together. Authors sometimes use the concept of love as a subject for their work, rationally, and carefully using it as a tool in their writing. In this essay, works by different authors during the Romantic, Realist, and Modernist period will be used to exhibit some of the forms of love used in literature.

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, love is exemplified more ways that we can imagine, from the undying love of two people to parental love. Love celebrated by the protagonists with playful sonnets to express their endearment and love for one another. Love that transcends from such powerful gazes and translates into an undying love. Society’s encroachment to a very innate and fundamental aspect of our being is met with violence and death. We must not forget that the very essence of love is that you cannot control love. It is innate, a reflex if you will, and for everyone the Holy Grail of life.