Love is a funny thing. Love between two people is often confusing and hard to understand. Many people don’t know how or why we fall in love. Eros, in Greek mythology, refers to the god of love, and Eros is essentially the reason for love. Eros explains how people fall in love or why for that matter. The term Eros is used to refer to the part of love that constitutes an intense desire for something, often referenced to a particular sexual desire that one has toward another. Eros is a “now” feeling, or what the more common phrase would be which is “love at first sight.” Eros is all about the moment, about the feeling, the intensity right here, right now. The intense desire for immediate sexual and physical attraction, as well as intense passion …show more content…
One day about three years after the mass murder, Jack is working with his girlfriend Anne in a video store in a mostly drunken, depressed state, and one night he attempts suicide. Before he can do so, he is mistaken for a homeless person and is attacked and nearly set on fire by thugs. He is rescued by Parry, a deluded homeless man who is on a mission to find the Holy Grail, and tries to convince Jack to help him. Jack is initially reluctant, but comes to feel responsible for Parry when he learns that the man's condition is a result of witnessing his wife's murder at the hands of Jack's crazy caller. Then later in the movie Jack seeks to redeem himself by helping Parry find love again. He sets Parry up with Lydia, a shy woman, who works as an accountant for a Manhattan publishing house. Jack and Anne then join them for a dinner date. Following dinner, Parry declares his love for Lydia but is once again haunted by the Red Knight. As he flees his hallucinatory tormentor, the same thugs who had earlier attacked Jack attack him again. The beating is not fatal but causes Parry to become catatonic again. Jack breaks up with Anne and begins to rebuild his career. Eventually, after some time, Jack goes back to the video store and tells Anne that he loves her. She slaps him and then grabs him and kisses him. The film ends with Jack and Parry lying naked in Central Park looking at the clouds. In the end of the movie it doesn’t specifically say why Parry went back to Jack, but perhaps based on an instinct of an affinity for sexual desire. Why he left her originally is not specifically stated either. But it appears that Jack left Parry because he didn’t love her for her looks and sexual appearance and for this simple reason Jack still appeared to have Eros written all
Robert Bridges and Anne Stevenson both have different versions of Eros, the god of love. While Bridges depicts Eros as an inspirational icon, Stevenson shows Eros as someone who has been bruised and abused, the opposite of a typical depiction of a reverential figure. They talk about love itself through the god Eros using their diction, imagery, and rhyme.
He begins to think how he had just killed a man and how him and his friends had tried to attempt rapping a girl. As he is walking in the lake he touches a dead body and gets freaked out even more and began to yell. Then the girl hears him and scream there they are and began to throw rocks into the lake trying to hit the narrator. He then hears the voice of Bobby who bought him relief and sorrow at the same time. He felt relief because he discovers that the Bobby is not dead and sorrow because the Bobby was alive and wanted to kill him and his friends.
“EΡΩΣ” by Robert Bridges has a contradictory concept of what humans view as love, thus the negative and positive comparisons are between Eros different angles in love and lust. For instance, Eros is described as both having “exuberant flesh so fair” yet “Ere from his chaste marmoreal,” thus stating he has both a sexual, savage appearance, yet a pure and smooth one also. The speaker also states, “Surely thy body is thy mind, for thy face is nought to find…” where Eros is being described as a pretty boy who beyond his looks has no brain. Both these descriptions, of a sexual appearance and having no brains, depict that ...
The film The Fisher King, is about two men whose lives have crossed paths due to unforeseen circumstances. Jack Lucas, a radio talk show host, is first portrayed in the movie as a narcissistic, cynical, and arrogant man who inadvertently prompts a depressed caller, Edwin, to commit murder by stating “it must be stopped, it’s us or them.” (Gillmian, 1991). Jack also explains to Edwin that the people who go to Babbitt’s Bar are “not human” and that the patrons are “evil”. (Gillmian, 1991) After the conversation on the air, Edwin goes into the nightclub and opens fire on the “yuppie inbreeds” (Gillmian, 1991) as Jack also called the club goers. Edwin ends the rampage by taking the shotgun and ending his own life with a shot to the head. Three years later, Jack is now a depressed man who is an alcoholic and suicidal. Before Jack is able to commit suicide, two boys mistake Jack as a homeless man. The neighborhood delinquents attack Jack with a bat and try to set him on fire. Parry, comes to the rescue and stops the thugs from setting Jack on fire. After the attack Parry takes Jack to his home, a boiler room, and waits for Jack to wake up. When Jack wakes up from his drunken night he is instantly frightened by who and what he sees. Jack does
In Aristophanes’ speech, which primarily takes the form of a myth, he weaves together comical elements with undertones of sadness that serve to create a profound account of what Eros is. The speech describes humans as combined creatures who, after being separated, are filled with longing. These beings spend the remainder of their lives, in a sometimes futile attempt, combating this feeling of longing by searching for the individual that can make them one again. Aristophanes describes Eros as a remedy for this overwhelming emotion. He uses his story to make Eros an entity that acts in tandem with individuals wishing to be whole. As a result, Eros ultimately serves as a guide that allows humans to bring about their original feeling of completion,
Consistent with the corpus of Terry Gilliam's work (e.g., BRAZIL and THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN), THE FISHER KING once again deals with grand themes against the backdrop of an alienating and dehumanizing social environment. The movie begins with Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges), the biting, sardonic, and caustic radio "personality," berating his callers and listeners from a small studio somewhere in New York City. Speaking to one of his "fans" named Alan, Jack launches into a lengthy tirade in which he derides "yuppies," declaring that they deserve to die. With another day's job of derision completed, Jack goes home to prepare for his first television appearance, practicing his "presentation of self" by uttering the words "forgive me!" with
Jack didn’t know what to do in this situation, but all the while he suspected that his wife was cheating on him as well. Jack calls his sister Ellen to get her opinion, but in the process she ends up deciding to come down and stay with them for a while. Jack seemed hesitant but grateful for the company because Julia was never home anymore, she was too busy working at the fab plant for Xymos. When Julia hears that Ellen is coming over, she decides to leave work early. When she pulls in, Eric the middle child says he see someone in the cart with her, but when she walks through the door, she is alone. After dinner, julia abruptly leaves, but as Jack sees her pull out, he sees the figure of a man in the passenger
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.
The story of Ethos was that he was a Greek god of love. In Latin, Ethos means the god of desire, affection, and erotic love. He was self-born at the beginning of time to spur procreation (theoi.com). His mother is Aphrodite and his father is Ares. He has three brothers named Deimos, Phobos, and Harmonia. Resources say that Eros is the guy who carries around a bow and arrow and he has the power to make any human fall in love with anyone they see at first sight. Another name they have for Ethos is Cupid, because of his power he has to make anyone fall in love (greekgodandgoddess.net).
I have always thought that there was only one type of love, which was that feeling of overwhelming liking to someone else. I am aware that Lust does exist and that it is separate from Love, being that the desire for someone's body rather their mind. In Plato's Symposium, Plato speaks of many different types of love, loves that can be taken as lust as well. He writes about seven different points of view on love coming from the speakers that attend the symposium in honor of Agathon. Although all these men bring up excellent points on their definitions on love, it is a woman that makes the best definition be known. I will concentrate on the difference between the theory of Common and Heavenly love brought up by Pausanias and the important role that Diotima plays in the symposium.
In the Aeneid, love is depicted as an uncontrollable emotion. Venus and Juno promote the romance between Dido and Aeneas. Dido, the queen of Carthage, begins to fall in love with Aeneas, even though she has vowed to her late husband that she would set her “face against marriage” (Virgil 975). Aeneas falls in love with Dido and remains with her in Carthage, even though he knows that he must continue his travel to Rome. Love is a passion which consumes the soul in spite of its will. It is an “inward fire” (Virgil 976). Juno arranges it so that Dido and Aeneas consummate their love in a cave during a storm. Again, mortals have little or no control over their loves. The gods are the ones who cause people to fall in love.
Aristophanes delivers a striking account concerning the nature of Eros. In his speech, which primarily takes the form of a myth, he weaves together comical elements with undertones of sadness that serve to create a profound account of what Eros is. The speech describes humans as combined creatures who, after being separated, are filled with longing. These beings spend the remainder of their lives, in a sometimes futile attempt, combating this feeling of longing by searching for the individual that can make them one again. Aristophanes describes Eros as a remedy for this overwhelming emotion. He uses his story to make Eros an entity that acts in tandem with individuals wishing to be whole. As a result, Eros ultimately serves as
Eros as described above is a love that is seen not only as sexual desire, but a “general, unspecified pre-occupation with her (the beloved) totality (Lewis, 133)”. Although the positive side of Eros is experiencing passionate love, individuals are indulging in their own desires, the end goal to please themselves. This mindset is selfish therefore Eros is no longer able to be morally correct. Eros requires is that the lover has some initial interest in the beloved that gave them some sort of self-gratification or pleasure. This does not make Eros any less of a form of love, but this does inhibit Eros from being considered honest in the lover’s true intentions for loving the beloved. This dishonestly goes against my definition of
In the ancient world there were two different images that could be presented of the god Eros. The first was that of a young man with wings and rings in his hands, illustrated by a statue that was created around 400 BCE by the sculptor Praxiteles (Fig.1). Second is the depiction of a mischievous baby by an unknown sculptor from the first century BCE (Fig.2). This second depiction also had wings but once again the bow was missing. If the god Eros is depicted as a child he is generally with Aphrodite his mother. Of these two depictions the most common in the modern world is the baby depiction. Even though the baby depiction is the most common, in some instances whoever is working with the depiction will choose to use the young man.
Directly following his experience in Mexico with a male prostitute—an interesting cut on Lee’s part—Jack is seen at a table with Lureen, her parents, and their son, Bobby, attempting to carve the turkey when his father-in-law rudely intercepts. The contrast between the scene in Mexico and this Thanksgiving scene allows the audience to perceive the tension between Jack’s sexual impulses and the constrictions of societal norms. As Jack and the Mexican prostitute walk into the dingy darkness of the alley they are swallowed by the darkness of the nig...