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    and complex society, where veracity and altruism are just two pivotal components of living a happy life surrounded by love. Suffice to state, the words love and sacrifice are almost complementary as either word may serve as the precedent of the other word. Having stated the latter as the foundation of true love and of living a happy life, two stories with similar themes about true love come to mind. Upon reading The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry and The Pianist in the Wal-Mart Parking Lot by Shao Wang

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    found true love. In this play, Shakespeare takes the audience on a Romantic journey that ends with a tragedy over the course of four and a half days. The love of these two characters grows from the feud of two enemies. Although Romeo and Juliet think they found true love they have mistaken because their youth, the speed of the relationship, and lack of experience prevents them from knowing what the real meaning of true love is. The first reason why Romeo and Juliet don't know what true love really

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    The Theme of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare presents us with multiple types of love by using numerous couples in various different situations. For example: Doting loves, the love induced by Oberon's potion and in some aspects, Lysander and Hermia's love for each other; there are true loves: Oberon and Titania, Lysander and Hermia (for the first half at least, as Lysander's love switches to Helena temporarily)

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    represents her personality, individuality, and character. The state of her hair changes as the novel progresses and Jamie goes through different stages of life, struggling to find true love. Using Jamie’s hair to express her feelings and emotions throughout the novel, Hurston highlights the theme that finding true love and happiness requires one to be free and adventurous in life without letting any obstacles or events alter one’s character. The novel starts as Janie retells her past events to her

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    Night’s Dream, is “The course of true love never did run smooth.” This line was spoken by one of the main characters, Lysander. The quote is saying that lovers always face difficulty on the path to their happiness because love has numerous “obstacle courses”. These “obstacles” tend to make love a difficult path, which is what the characters Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, Helena, Oberon, and Titania face in the play. Throughout the course of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, true love was not easy to achieve for

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    with romance, passion, love, but is this what Shakespeare wanted us to take away from this story. Did he wants us to see this as a tale of true and abiding love or did he offer this as a cautionary tale of the irrational nature of love. Through the characters of Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Lawerence Shakespeare provides the reader with abundant evidence as to how love can make people behave irrationally. Shakespeare introduces us to Romeo in act 1 and presents him as a love struck young man. He is

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    Budding Love… Cut at the Stem Love is what grows off of infatuation though a basic of time in which infatuation can grow, this is the reason why in the play Romeo and Juliet, their relationship is not of love, rather infatuation. This is shown through the short time frame of their ‘love’, the star-crossed love nature, and how their relationship is mostly physical. Infatuation only takes moments to develop, however true love and trust takes years to accomplish. In the play, Romeo and Juliet meet

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    Throughout centuries human kind has been engulfed by the constant exploration of what love is, of figuring out the definition of that ecstatic feeling inside of oneself that churns and twists human emotions in every sense. It is in accordance to an individual’s own experience that he or she will define love, thus making it a continuous mystery in its own broad spectrum of definitions. The word “love” has a unique and ardent meaning for every single individual. Though concrete definitions have emerged

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    Prince’s love is definitely not true. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a film released by Disney in 1937. It was the first fully animated film, and told the tale of Snow White, fairest of them all, trying to escape the Evil Queen’s jealous grasp. Some say this is a beautiful tale of how true love conquers evil, and how envy does not get anyone anywhere. While Snow White is awoken at the end by true love’s kiss, though, the truth of this love is doubtful. Disney’s portrayal of true love is, in reality:

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    Love Is Wise In the short story “Suggestion” by Ada Leverson there is so much deceitfulness when it comes to love and people in general. Suggestion has a wide based theme where loving someone does not mean it’s really true love. People often wonder what true love is. It’s hard to define true love. To me, true love is a very strong emotion or feeling that you show to someone when you care for them and are willing to do anything in the world for them. In “Suggestion” there was this very weird, typically

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