Love is one of the most difficult concepts to understand, as well as one of the most powerful forces. Many great men and women have endeavored to describe and comprehend love, but did they succeed? Even in stories with no romance love lurks, as previewed in the six books that are, the Aeneid, Beric the Briton, Children’s Homer, A Single Shard, the Two Towers, and the Bible. Most books, including these, highly value love, and the Bible in particular, states that love must be given and received by God’s children. Additionally, almost all of those pieces of literature succeed in their depiction of love.
Unsurprisingly, friendship and love are themes that appear often in Beric the Briton, and friendship is especially emphasized in this intriguing tale. Friendship is viewed as a long-lasting, crucial relationship, one that can be superior and is often just as valuable and wonderful as family connections. “However, his loyalty to Beric prevented him from breathing a word in the tribe as to his fears.” [8] Boduoc, a faithful, hot-headed Briton, ignores his duty to his tribe, because, as apprehensive as he is of Beric’s loyalties, he is a faithful friend. Such a treacherous act could have easily proved fatal to him, but Boduoc displayed his altruistic love for his friend nonetheless.
Invoking a different sort of love is Beric’s mother. She is a perfect example of selfless family love. Parta wanted nothing for herself. Her singular desire was to make her son great, the mighty liberator of the Britons. “What mattered the life of a woman in comparison to yours when you know my hopes and plans for you?”[27] Parta admonished Beric. She remained under Rome’s yoke when Parta could have easily escaped to freedom, ...
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...cks closer than a brother.” In Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10, it is said that, “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work. If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who fall and has no one to help him up.” All those verses show that, love is perfect, love must be given freely, love in friendship may give you family, and a friend is needed by every person.
As stated in the introduction, these books do an astonishing job of expressing love, and its different forms. Each book reveals its opinion on the subject of love. With each book describing a different relationship, it is the writer’s express wish that anyone who has read the paper will have a least a basic understanding of love. The mysterious force that is alluring and enthralling, unexpected and unavoidable, welcoming and deterring, mighty and terrifying.
Both author’s illustrate well, that a lack of love can have a profound effect on the behavior of a person. Whether a person has never experienced love by fortune or by design, the initial introduction of love into
Different forms of romantic love between a man and a woman can be seen throughout each of the three chosen texts, but through each negative aspect of these relationships they appear to affect them in an adverse way, whether this is through false love, forbidden love, or through unrequited love.
Love and affection is an indispensable part of human life. In different culture love may appear differently. In the poem “My god my lotus” lovers responded to each other differently than in the poem “Fishhawk”. Likewise, the presentation of female sexuality, gender disparity and presentation of love were shown inversely in these two poems. Some may argue that love in the past was not as same as love in present. However, we can still find some lovers who are staying with their partners just to maintain the relationship. We may also find some lovers having relationship only because of self-interest. However, a love relationship should always be out of self-interest and must be based on mutual interest. A love usually obtains its perfectness when it develops from both partners equally and with same affection.
Since we are kids we are taught the importance and meaning of love. Obviously, when we are kids we don’t realize such a big felling, until we grow up. I would say that love isn’t the feeling of intense hormonal urges; it is much more than that. It’s a real genuine feeling. The intense connection of true love cannot be broken because true love is unconditional and it has no boundaries. I have read many books about love, but in this case this book I would talk about is special because it makes us ask many questions about ourselves. Gabriel Garcia Marquez without writing it in the book Love in the Time of Cholera sets the question how long could we will be willing to wait for love? Since the first moment we open the book we can see it is going to be about love, so after reading some chapters we can ask ourselves about this question, and that obviously traps us. Love in the Time of Cholera is a novel that has a very strong meaning of love, some types of love presented in this books focuses on pure, and innocent, passionate, interested, divided love and among others, but the good thing about these kinds of love is that it gives the readers a teaching.
A great writer once wrote: “The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they 're brought out.” Boundless things -- ideas, concepts, memories -- are all torn apart when we speak about them. They get cut up into little pieces, so that we may chew on them and digest them without choking. We end up turning these immeasurable things into literary defecation. Love, for instance, has been constant subject among writers and philosophers for eons. Everyone from E.L James to Plato has written on love and attempted to explore it with language. In Plato’s Symposium, love is discussed
This type of love is shunned because it was selfish to abandon her husband and find a new man that she did not admire. As a result of her selfishness, Bisclavret’s wife suffered in the end: “He banished the wife,/ and chased her out of the country” (305-306). The culmination of their love exhibits another facet of love; one should be devoted to their lover. Bisclavret never changed from the honorable person he was when he transfigured into a werewolf. The loss of devotion to her husband ultimately caused the woman to leave, which the author showcases as harmful. While the author postulates that one should be devoted to their lover, there is a limit to that
Love is unvarying; not just the god, but also the emotion itself. There are similarities between Carver 's short story as well as Plato 's work where not all relationships were the same. By love also existing in different forms, it supports both the homo and heterosexual relationships found in Plato 's work. Another form of love is found in Greek mythology, as expressed by Aristophanes, where the idea of soulmates originates from these two beings who had two sets of body parts that were connected together, constituting of a variation of mixes between the three sexes. The two people started out as one, but their power was too strong so the gods had to separate them which is where the idea of looking for one’s other half comes from (Plato 25-28). There are older men who pursue younger men, as discussed at this symposium, where the older man would act as mentors or guides for the other. They were discouraged from exhibiting any signs of pleasure that they could feel from the less experienced partner. These homosexual relationships were looked upon with more respect because women were viewed to be inferior mentally to men, so by men desiring other men, it meant that their relationships were countered by an intelligent partner.Pausanias believed in two types of love; celestial, meaning physical and mental attraction, and common. Celestial love is related with not having affairs with younger boys who are “younger than the age at which intelligence begins to form”(Plato 14), while common love was regarded as a negative form because it was someone “who
Love, in classical Greek literature, is commonly considered a prominent theme. Love, in present days, always appears in the categories of books, movies, music, etc. Interpreted differently by different people, Love turns into a multi-faceted being. In Plato’s work Symposium, Phaedrus, Pausania, Eryximachus, Aristophane and Agathon, each of them presents a speech to either praise or definite Love. Phaedrus first points out that Love is the primordial god; Pausanias brings the theme of “virtue” into the discussion and categorizes Love into “good” one or “bad” one; Eryximachus introduces the thought of “moderation’ and thinks that Love governs such fields as medicine and music; Aristophanes draws attention to the origin and purposes of Love; Agathon enunciates that the correct way to present an eulogy is first to praise its nature and gifts.
“His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!” Throughout the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R Tolkien, one of the most prominent themes present is the life and world changing effects of love. Tolkien reveals the importance of both love, and the different types of love; love among brothers, family, lovers, leaders, animals, and of country are all shown. With numerous examples of the different kinds of love responsible for saving Middle Earth, Tolkien is able to convey the significance and impact of love.
Love is a concept that has puzzled humanity for centuries. This attachment of one human being to another, not seen as intensely in other organisms, is something people just cannot wrap their heads around easily. So, in an effort to understand, people write their thoughts down. Stories of love, theories of love, memories of love; they all help us come closer to better knowing this emotional bond. One writer in particular, Sei Shōnagon, explains two types of lovers in her essay "A Lover’s Departure": the good and the bad.
The modern concept of love owes a great deal to the Humanist tradition of the Renaissance. The humanists focused on perfection and exaltation of this life as opposed to the afterlife. In Tristan and Iseult the seeds of Renaissance love are present in the Middle Ages. To the modern eye, it is a mystery how the period of the Middle Ages produced the seeds of the diametrically opposite Renaissance. Yet it is necessary to understand this transformation if one is to fully comprehend the forces that helped produce the modern consciousness. Courtly Love is a transitional concept that emerged in the Middle Ages. It is transitional because it emerged early and acknowledges God as the creator of love, yet it concentrates on the lovers themselves. The tale of Tristan and Iseult is one of the oldest tales that exhibits courtly love. The Love of Tristan and Iseult, as a metaphor for courtly love, is pivotal to the transition from the Middle Ages' focus on community and afterlife to the Renaissance focus on the individual and earthly happiness.
There are many essential emotions that form the building blocks of our lives. These emotions help to shape the people that we are. These feelings are emotional necessities to ultimately keep us happy. No piece of literature these feelings more evident than the Odyssey by Homer. Throughout the course of this book there is one major emotional theme: love.
What pops into your mind when you hear the word ‘love?’ Do you think of a person who loved you or someone you’ve admired? We, as human beings, are made to love. We even distinguish love as family, romantic, and selfless love: also known as, storge, eros, and agape. As much as we desire to love others, we hold high values of being loved by others. Humanity’s great appreciation towards love is so great, it is even portrayed in fairy tales. Little Mermaid is a story about a mermaid who exchanges her beautiful voice to human legs so that she could be with her true love, Sleeping Beauty is a story about a prince who strives to fight against the evil witch in order to save his true love from a deep sleep, and Beauty and the Beast is about a young lady who falls in love with a Beast, solely because of his good virtue and character. The most influential book to humanity, the Bible, also carries the message of love through the gospel. God’s love for human being is purely displayed through the life of Jesus Christ: Jesus’ birth, death, and resurrection. Could there be mere connections between the gospel, fairy tales, and humanity under the topic of love? Jeanne-Marie LePrince De Beaumont’s Beauty and the Beast echoes the Evangelium by reflecting upon unconditional, sacrificial, and transformative love. Such love is demonstrated through Beauty’s action, motivation, and her relationship with others.
The word “love” has always caught attention with its meanings. There have been many definitions used for this word throughout history, beginning with its start during the ninth century. With the examples of current use(from Urban Dictionary, Twitter, a student survey, a song, and a film) it is obvious that the definition of this word has been lost in translation in many different ways. Looking closely at the synonyms, along with the history and current use, the true definition is clearly seen through a usual worldly haze.
Lovers treat love very seriously, intent on permanence and passion; as such, the circumstances which bring lovers together strengthen the bond. In the Aeneid, the will of the gods brought Dido and Aeneas together in Carthage. Juno said, “Your prince of Troy and Dido both will come to a cave. I’ll be there, too. With your consent, I’ll join them in marriage and name her ‘lawful wife.’ Their wedding this shall be.” To this, Venus nodded in agreement. “Such tactics made her smile” (Virgil 610). The love of Dido and Aeneas was handmade by the gods. On a scale of less grandeur, but still of great importance, was the beginning of the love in the first tale on the fourth day in the Decameron. The Prince of Salerno loved his daughter very much, “this girl was as much beloved by her father as any daughter ever was,” yet, his “tender love” kept him from marrying off his daughter (Boccaccio 1282). When a marriage took place at last, it was short lived, due to the new husband’s death. The prince took very good care ...