False love

Explore the role of Uncle Clem’s vase in Atonement Within Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel Atonement, Uncle Clem’s vase occurs at critical moments plays a critical role throughout the plot, helping to depict different forms of love and the class division. It is discovered that Uncle Clem obtained the vase during the First World War when he was given the vase by a thankful occupant of a French town that he had helped to evacuate. We learn that the vase itself is a particularly expensive item and has been

Hippolyta. It is composed of four interconnected plots that tell us the nature of love, including the adventure of four Athenian lovers: Demetrius, Helena, Lysander and Hermia; Oberon’s revenge on Titania and the mechanicals who are the six amateur actors. Among all these characters, two of the four lovers, Hermia and Helena, are similar in their attitude towards love. They both believe that they are the objects of love. However, they are different in their actions, ideas, appearance and personality

of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, love is a driving force to several characters, but hatred is the strongest motivator. One theme of the story is the way revenge and hatred can drive people to do extreme things. Edmond Dantes’ wrongful imprisonment sparks his intense hatred for his enemies Villefort, Caderousse, Fernand and Danglars. Edmond Dantes’ lifelong quest for revenge after his escape from prison proves that hatred is a stronger driving force than love in the way that he exploits Albert’s

Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet two young lovers were pressured from their parent’s hatred and limitation of their love from secrecy, but their destiny and desperation of love brings them together to discover their own definition of love and happiness from promising a marriage. These young lovers that are being introduced

This love is especially seen in Act 1, Scene 3, where Othello passionately argues about the genuine love between Desdemona and himself. He asks to summon Desdemona to also comment on their relationship, trusting that she would confirm their love. While Desdemona is being called upon, Othello professes that there was no trick to win over Desdemona’s heart. Instead, Othello states

He takes it one step further by deciding to buy a love potion from an old man. The story was fascinating because we get to see what Alan decides to do in order to get Diana to love him. In a way we can relate to this because this is the age where we start to have feelings for the opposite sex. What I liked about the story was how the old man was trying to influence Alan into buying the love potion. He gives him various examples of how the love potion can turn into something dreadful but, Alan was

characters who loves Ophelia but in their own way. There's an event in the beginning of the story where Hamlet shows his love and affections to his love Ophelia. However, the two characters Laertes (brother) and Polonius (father) react to the situation differently. Polonius orders her to stay away and do as he says while Laertes advises Ophelia about men and Hamlet. From the choices the these character chose reveal how much they truly value dearest Ophelia. Therefore, I believe polonius loves Ophelia more

It is 2017 and can you believe that many people around the world still frown upon interracial dating? First and foremost, before we go any further, there are some false connotations that involve the African American race that need to be set Straight. I, myself, am a black woman and believe it or not, I can swim. Yes people, not all black people are doing the doggy paddle. Not all black people like fried chicken, shocking, yes I know and we also all don’t eat watermelon, mind bugling isn’t it? We

what makes people want to have friendships. This is one of the main things that Cicero continuously touched on in his book. “…Friendship arises from nature as such, rather than from some neediness: from application of the mind, along with a kind of love, rather than from thinking about how much advantage the relationship might bring (Cicero, 11).”Cicero would be very disappointed in how many relationships are built for the need of a person instead of letting nature take control of the friendship.

In a social setting where the presence of God is absent, love simply cannot exist. It is a common-truth that human beings require love; in a society where love cannot and does not exist, the void where that “love” would have existed becomes filled with deluded misconceptions of what love truly is. In Marie-Claire Blais’ Mad Shadows, Blais clearly illustrates what happens genuine love cannot exist and is replaced by misinterpretations, with the use of well developed character relationships. In many