The True Nature Of Love

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

Love is a powerful emotion that everyone wants. The fact is that love will overcome anything as long as you have the right motives. Whereas, the word hate has a very deep and harsh meaning, it means to have an intense or passionate dislike towards someone or something. George Orwell’s book, 1984, shows us a prime example of a society based on hate. Moreover, a society based on hate will not survive, the government will manipulate the people to destroy themselves.

Love and hate are two of the strongest emotion a person has for two seemingly very different reasons. These two emotions are classified as total opposites, but I believe that they are closer than one might expect even though they have very different connotations.

“It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, hate ruled us we should have become extinct long ago. And yet the tragedy of it is that so-called civilized man and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence,”(Gandhi). In this quote Gandhi says the main reasons of love and hate are mankind. As well that both control and destroy a human. However, in the end the human chooses the one they will follow. In the outstanding novel Kindred by Octavia Butler. The protagonist, Dana, faces many love and hate situations as she travels back and forth in time. Accordingly, she begins to question whom is to blame for the love and hate crimes. Love and hate are influenced by mankind, both can be controlled and the pair are conscious decisions.

“When we judge other people we confront them in a spirit of detachment, observing and reflecting as it were from the outside. But love has neither time nor opportunity for this. If we love, we can never observe the other person with detachment, for he is always and at every moment a living claim to our love and service.”.

The opposite of love is not hate. An example of this is when the Rabbi’s son left him behind to die, “A terrible thought crossed my mind: What if he had wanted to be rid of his father? He had felt his father growing weaker and, believing

BrainyQuote. Xplore. Web. 3 Dec. 2015. This quote says that love is good for you unlike like hate because when you feel hate it burns you inside.

The Essence of Love Is it possible to truly love someone without hating part of them? Does the presence of hate in a relationship mean there can’t be love? In his play the Cripple of Inishmaan, Martin McDonagh takes a look at these questions. He creates a scenario where love is put alongside hate and mean-spiritedness, then asks if it is possible for these to coincide.

It is through the opposition of one another that an absence of the love they so earnestly desire is bred.

Briana A, Noodwang English 12B Professor Schmetz 2014 December 14 Cycles of Hatred Hatred is a very strong word but people have hatred towards people. It’s all because of different things also. Some people hate people because they were there for them, perhaps they lied to that person, stole something very important to them, murder, cheated them, or etc. The true definition of hatred is solid, firm, and resistant to pressure; not easily broken, bent, or pierced.

“Love always overcomes hate, but love’s effects and hate’s effects are no different in magnitude.” -Anonymous. No one ever doubts the power of love or the power of hate. For as long as time has existed people have loved and people have hated. Strong emotions persuade everyone to act on their inhibition. Everyone wants to be a hero in every situation whether it be trying to save someone or the simple act of finding a winning lottery ticket. These actions are what lead to love overcoming hate even if they are the simplest of acts. The mistake people make is them trying to hard to be the hero. This leads to one traveling great lengths to achieve their goals, but at what cost. Throughout Shakespeare’s most famous play, Romeo and Juliet, his main

Nietzsche discusses the sensualities of love and hostility spiritually. He describes love as a “great triumph,” but love can connect with hostility defines as acting and thinking oppositely of what is told to do. In doing so, he claims that the church as always promoted hostility to maintain self-preservation in both church and politics.

     “I love you.” These three little words might possibly be the most powerful statement one can make to another person. In life, most yearn for the intimate affection that a certain someone can provide them. Women dream of their Prince Charming to come and sweep them off their feet, while men search for the love of their life that sets their heart on fire. But what happens when love is thrown around without a second thought? Has this four letter word become an overused cliché? Has love been replaced with lust? Is there such a thing as true love? This last question has been asked throughout history, while many have argued and debated over the final answer. We, as a society, have become a loveless, sex crazed group

Love and hate are both very powerful emotions. The abundance one can feel inside when feeling them can be overwhelming at times. I think everyone can relate to the feeling when you love someone so much you would do anything and everything for them. We can also understand that feeling when you can’t even stand the thought of someone being in the same room of you. When we look at what emotion is more powerful, I think hate is stronger than love. The reason being is that love can quickly turn to hate, but hate doesn’t change to love very fast, if at all. I think Othello is a great example of this. His love for his wife, turned to hate so fast because he thought she was cheating on him. He murdered his wife in pure cold blood which shows how hate can be such a powerful emotion that it can actually cause someone to want to commit murder. The feeling of love and hate can change someone, and they both can be very powerful. However, I think that hate is an emotion unlike no other in which the feeling is very stable, in the since that it is very hard to change someone’s mind about you when they hate you.

The lives of numerous people within large societies, including Scandinavians, are culturally constructed. These cultural norms are passed down through countless generations, nevertheless Scandinavian countries are especially influenced through arts and literature. The norms people learn are always taken as a grain of salt, often accepting them as inevitable and natural without question. Though, in analyzing and challenging these cultural constructs, one is quick to realize that a few of the viewpoints are just meager conventions of their particular culture. The realization of this can show anyone that other views can be more realistic in function. For example, a Scandinavian cultural norm that should be reviewed is the idea of marriage being based on romantic love. When investigated, this notion in our society is discovered as a deceptive explanation of reality. Even though Scandinavians have very few doubts about romantic love being real, numerous societies throughout the world see this idea as strange, particularly when marriage is involved. A marriage based off of romantic love is exclusive to the industrial west, whereas other cultures marry for social and economic reasons - love may or may not follow suit. One of the popular ideas about love and marriage is that they are synonyms, which arise from the same motifs, and cover similar human necessities. Like many common beliefs this idea also rests not on real facts, but in superstition.