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    Through this example, Cassandra shows us how Jace’s outlook on love changed throughout the story- in this quote Alec Lightwood; ‘parabatai’ of Jace, explains to Clary how dissimilar Jace has become ever since Clary became known to him, because this is the first time that Jace has ever ‘allowed himself to love’. A example beyond this text that shows the power of love, is the story of the Russian couple Boris and Anna Kozlov. They got married in 1946 and three days

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    La Douleur Exquise

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    several hardships in life that have made her a selfish girl, but one concept has made her change: love. This emotion transformed her heart and guided her to make better choices. Eponine has proved not to be like the Thenardier family by becoming a better person as her heart has been filled with love and sacrifice for the one person she cares about the most but will never have. The Thenardier family has always been cruel and selfish, but one member broke away from their wickedness to have her heart

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    Love And Religion

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    in religious life love because many people are curious that have I ever fall in love with someone? Why I wanted to live in the convent, why I wanted to become a nun, will I not marry in the future? or did I have problem love before? and how can I balance my life without fall in love with someone? To love and to be loved are the main point of human life. However, the level of love and the way that people express their love are totally different. There are many definitions of love and many poets describe

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    Leo Tolstoy once wrote, “All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” All families come across problems they have to face, but in the end, they will be overcome. In Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, the source of unhappiness within Baba and Amir’s family is their lack of understanding between each other. The characters experience a unique level of unhappiness due to the dark secrets of betrayal each harbor. In The Kite Runner, Baba has kept secrets

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    “Young men love with their eyes, then, not truly with their hearts!”, Friar Lawrence (103). As Friar Lawrence says in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, young men only seek for beauty instead of real love. However, that’s the only way to learn what love really is. In this novel, the “love”of two young teenagers and the hatred between their families lead to a catastrophe that ended killing them. But, who is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? As a priest, Friar Lawrence should’ve

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    fell in love accidentally. Romeo’s love for Rosaline was soon dismissed with the introduction of his counterpart in the play, Juliet. As can perhaps be expected with any great tragedy, their love failed. While many reasons exist for this failure, including fate, young age and a lack of sufficient rationality, their counselor, Friar Lawrence, also played a key role in their love’s failure. Without sufficient foresight and logical thinking, Romeo and Juliet became victims of their own love due to their

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    In Atonement, the theme of love is explored in a variety of different ways. McEwan explores many different kinds of love including romantic love, platonic love, self love and family love. One way that McEwan explores love in the novel is through letters. The epistolary form of the novel gives the readers an insight at what the characters are thinking and feeling, as they more profoundly express their feelings through their letters. For example, Robbie and Cecilia have expressed their feelings to

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    ethical standards in the name of gaining love. As seen in Antonio and Bassanio’s relationship as well as Jessica and Lorenzo’s, love causes people to become desperate for their lovers’ affection, making them more likely to go against their cultures’ and their own codes of conduct. Love enables transgression of even the traditionally fixed bounds of gender, sexuality, and religion. These relationships further suggest that love necessitates transgression because love requires giving up oneself completely

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    but also have many similarities, especially referring to family and education. The perspective on family is very different between the short story “Harrison Bergeron” and the novella Anthem. In “Harrison Bergeron”, the people are able to fall in love and have a family. The short story mentioned, “H-6 men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen year-old, Harrison, away” (Vonnegut 1). People in this society are not restricted to any family related actions that can be noticed by Hazel taking George’s

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    structure of a family. Living in a moral, rational universe, leads us to believe that developing such fruitful relationships will grant us the support and resources to achieve success in other facets of life. But in an absurd reality where such beliefs are meaningless, collective pursuits are quite futile. Through an analysis of narrative perspective, character and atmosphere, the closing paragraph of Frank Kafka’s haunting novella The Metamorphosis reveals the superficial nature of the love and bond that

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