Motherly love

The relationship between Jules and Cynthia Hawkins in Jean-Jacques Beneix's Diva is uniquely complex and vaguely oedipal. For Jules, the diva represents musical perfection, and he is completely in love with her. However, her relationship to him is somewhat maternal. Jules's obsession with Cynthia Hawkins is rather unhealthy, and he violates her purity. However, her maternal attitude towards him allows for reconciliation despite his mistakes. From the very beginning of the movie, the voice of

Ever since I have strengthened my morals, I have felt an overwhelming desire to give love to many people who, in some ways, will never be able to repay me. Mary does not feel this self-sacrificial love even for her children. Anne asks Mary if she would be alright spending an entire evening away from her child, and she responds, saying; “Yes; you see his papa can, and why should not I? –Jemima

people and the world… in its many forms” is one of the consistent subjects of his plays. In the very beginning of the play All's Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare points the philosophy of human love and the reality of life where The Countess dispensing some motherly wisdom to Bertram before he departs for France. “Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine

bearing…and I crushed their little witticisms with my observations, as I might crush an insect between my fingers, what a change!" (Pg 388) Now we are seeing a man who is no longer the shy child in the earlier pages who's main concern was for everyone to love him. Now he describes himself as somewhat cocky and boisterous and no longer cares about the opinions of others towards him. These years of Rousseau's life

Colleen Thomassians Shinn Period 6 10/8/14 Compare and Contrast: Sappho and Catullus There are different forms of love, ranging from the lust of one another to a familial fondness. Two poets, Sappho and Catullus, each represent a different type of love in their respective poems. Sappho, a female poet born in the early sixth century B.C. on the Greek island of Lesbos, was said to be the tenth Muse and a supreme lyric poet of her time. Her life remains mostly a mystery, but through her poems it

until late in life. To society, the question remains, why she didn’t try her best to bring up and support her children from her first husband. Scholars question whether it was due to her own abandonment as an infant and lack of a motherly figure to teach her how to love her own children, they were nothing more than a happenstance of sex, or if it was because she was never able to feel secure of her own basic needs and thus couldn’t think to take care of another’s. Firstly, Moll was born in a prison

May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women, is demure yet fierce in her loyalty. Although she cares too much about other’s opinions, she learns to focus on kindness rather than charm and propriety, and value hard work over wealth. Known to be motherly, Meg loves and encourages her friends and younger sisters. She embodies warmth and compassion in her family throughout the book, first when she is living at home with her mother and sisters, and later when she is married. Meg is loyal, compassionate

by outside forces and her repressed love for Hamlet, Ophelia is truly a sad and remorseful character in this play, an innocent victim with little essence or depth. An evident victimized woman, ruled by her Renaissance sense of romantic love, it can further be argued that Ophelia was extremely ambiguous. She was too incompetent to decide what she really desired in life. Because she falls in love with Hamlet at a very young age she cannot truly comprehend what love is all about, even though there is

The Hamlet Paradigm Central Question of the Play How does an individual react when he develops an obsession with destroying the powerful force ruling his country, yet risks experiencing psychological estrangement, occurring at multiple levels within himself, if he attempts to destroy that force? This is the central question that Shakespeare explores in his play Hamlet, which is a character study of an individual harboring just such an obsession, entailing just such a risk. Introduction

Since the time we are born, our natural instinct is to bond with someone. A motherly figure is often in our life and as a small child we become attached to them. That figure is someone we go to, for nurturing, physical embracement, and when we are in need of comfort. When this feeling of attachment is taken to the extreme, you develop obsessive attachment disorders. There is a range of different intensities of each disorder, along with a wide variety of what a person is attached to. Ranging from