The Love Scene between George and Maire from Translations Essay

There is a fine line between love and lust. If love is only a will to possess, it is not love. To love someone is to hold them dear to one's heart. In The Great Gatsby, the characters, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan are said to be in love, but in reality, this seems to be a misconception. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays the themes of love, lust and obsession, through the character of Jay Gatsby, who confuses lust and obsession with love. By the end of the novel however, Jay Gatsby is denied his "love" and suffers an untimely death. The author interconnects the relationships of the various prominent characters to support these ideas.

Shakespeare's unique talent for creating poetry is effective in both establishing character and demonstrating the theme. The characters of the play all speak in poetic form with the exception of the English rustics who speak in prose. This helps to place the fairies and lovers on a higher, more transcendental plane than the artisans. Therefore, the artisans become more comical and lighten up the confusing comedy of love. The poetry of Shakespeare's genius also clarifies the play's theme of the extreme confusion and blinding powers of love. The rhythmic words help to create a magical setting of love while the rhymes portray the confusion each character feels while under the stupefying powers of love.

Is Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby truly one of the greatest love stories of all time? Or his love story overwhelmed by unrealistic sequences and fantasizing? In his article, “The Serious Superficiality of The Great Gatsby,” Joshua Rothman vehemently denies the presupposition that The Great Gatsby is about love and father states that many characters and sequences in the novel are unrealistic. Other critics who would argue that the novel is about love are too dogmatic in their beliefs. Supported by a preponderance of evidence from the book itself, Rothman’s claims that The Great Gatsby is about fantasizing rather than love and that the story itself is unrealistic are indeed accurate.

All three texts present very different views on marriage. ‘On Chesil Beach’ presents a picture of a nervous young couple on the first night of their honeymoon, where although both are inexperienced, they seem to be in love. Whereas, in ‘The Merchants Tale’, we have an old ‘hoor’ man, desperate for a young wife to present him with an heir. On the other hand, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a play about the marriage of two lovers; this view is idealised and has for centuries been perceived as the perfect view of a relationship.

For generations, Shakespeare’s masterpieces have remained at the peak of the ever increasing bar of literary works. A reason for this could be the inclination of everyday people to the consistent and underlying concept of romance in each of Shakespeare’s plays and related movies. For instance, one could look at the movies A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Shakespeare in Love. The latter follows the life of William Shakespeare himself, everything from his love affair with Viola de Lesseps to his creation of Romeo and Juliet. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is one of the most famous plays of Shakespeare’s, revolving around the tumultuous relationships of four lovers, aided, and sometimes thwarted by the mischief of fairies. Although Shakespeare in Love outlines a few of the characteristics, such as the triumphs over obstacles, presence of danger, and humourous qualities that define Shakespearian romance, A Midsummer Night’s Dream provides depth into these feelings, displaying more, if not better examples of the complex type of “love” that Shakespeare portrays.

In this play, which celebrates love, and magic, the choice of a single life is, perhaps, worse than death. Although this play presents the difficulties of love and, in particular, of women's lack of choice in marriage, its goal is to celebrate love and so that Shakespeare was a romantic and a very big one too because it ends with

Love is the key to the world, or that is what is said at least. In the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, there are many love complications. The play is a tragic comedy in which a girl, Hermia, has a choice to marry someone she does-not love or she will be killed. When told her options, she devises a plan to run away and elope with the one she loves, but plans go awry when her best friend tells the man that is madly in love with Hermia that she plans to run away that night.

The setting played an important role in emphasizing that their love was unobtainable. The Opera had a dual role; it gave insight into the social elite’s traditions and rules which negated the relationship from developing due to status and reputation, the contents of the play itself showed that affairs lead to suffering and social suicide. The cold season in which the two lovers found themselves in only added to the notion that their relationship bore no future. It stylistically represented from beginning to end an improbable forbidden

William Shakespeare expresses love through magically, unique choice of words that flows together swimmingly. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing’d cupid painted blind” (Act I, scene 1, line 234). In Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, love is defined as a weapon to undisguised the unknown of one's true love to another. Shakespeare uses Bottom and Titania to portray this form of love. However, he also studies a different type of love, the love between Egeus and Hermia, father and daughter. This essay will analyse how Shakespeare explores the theme of love in the Midsummer Night’s Dream and compare the difference between the two contrasted forms of love.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play depicting the trials of love. The plot revolves around two separate couples and their off note love triangle. Essentially, Egeus wants his daughter to wed one man, but it turns out she is in love with another man. During this essay, we will compare and contrast these two couples relationship and describe the challenges along the way. The fairies in this play do not make the situation at hand any easier for the couples. Mischief and confusion is brought by the fairies, and in the end, the problem will be fixed once and for all.

In the play, Act 2 is where most of the love is introduced. In Act 2, Scene 2, the “lovers” are making a plan to marry in secret, “Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow” (141).This goes to show that if they have to marry secretly, their relationship will continue to be complicated. When the lovers realize their love will never be “normal”, ending everything becomes a better option.

Love is not a concept easily defined to its fullest capacity. It has been personified, resented, and over exaggerated throughout the history of drama and has left readers on the edge of their seats as plots unfold. With love, there are no set guidelines or feelings that can go along with a person’s actions, but there are societal expectations that cause a couple a great deal of misery if their love does not fit within them. Renaissance dramas often broke through these expectations to challenge the way people viewed and thought about love. Love is portrayed as a means for freedom, a lustful exchange, and a reward for not following social expectations in the plays The Duchess of Malfi, ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore, and The Shoemaker’s Holiday proving that it is an aloof social construct with a range of meanings.

Within the play, ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’, the importance of courtship and marriage is indicated, as is that of love and marriage. One of the ideas in the play is that there is a significant difference between ‘doting’ and ‘loving’, something like the distinction between fancying someone and loving them. The play also presents love as a kind of madness and way of looking at someone and admiring them as if they where magic. Love is often presented as a good thing, yet in the play ‘love and reason keep little company together’. The variety of relationships provides parallels and

Even in the Elizabethan era, the concept of love was difficult to grasp. During that era, many people married young since they had short lifespans. Consequently, people quickly became infatuated with one another, such as from a glance or simple gesture. In many Shakespearean plays, the recurring theme is that love is tragic and brings only pain. However, in Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, and “Sonnet XX”, love does not evoke only one emotion, but rather a range of emotions, from bliss to bittersweet.

The play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by Shakespeare includes many different scenes where love is maddening and characters act unusually for love. In the play, love causes jealousy, conflicts between peers, and even embarrassment of themselves, and the characters’ behaviors become unpredictable and their identities transform throughout the play. This fictitious play is a comedy of love, which ends in happiness and