Many people believe that not everyone is capable of loving and changing who they are. However with some people, they see good in everyone, even in the darkest, most evil people. In the book The Count of Monte Cristo, hatred is seen throughout the novel and many people overlook the concept of love being a theme. Although many people believe love is not truly present in this novel, I believe it is because Mercedes and Dante's’ feelings remained for a long time, Maximilien believed he couldn’t live without Valentine, and Haydee’s love starts to turn the Count back to how he was before imprisonment. One of the most clear love stories was shown right off the bat in the beginning of the story. The love between Edmond Dantes and Mercedes. There are many reasons throughout the book to show how their love was real. One being that Mercedes never fully moved on from Dante's, even when she was with Fernand, “It’s still true that she fainted once when she passed by the tavern where she’d celebrated her betrothal feast 18 months before with the man she’d realized she still loved if she’d dared look into the depths of her …show more content…
After the imprisonment of Edmond Dantes, he was no longer the same person. Instead he became bitter and revengeful. However, the Count started to show signs of himself when he fell in love with Haydee, “The Count trembled at the sound of her voice, which touched the most secret fibers of his heart”. This quote is essential because it illustrates how the love between the two has started to show the old Dantes and started to bring back his humanity. Also in the middle of the book, the Count told Haydee that she is the new Mercedes in his life. This scene is important because you see how much Dantes had loved Mercedes, but now he has started to move on and feels strongly for a new woman. The love between the Count and Haydee is one that is visibly
When we think about the force that holds the world together and what makes humans different from animals, one answer comes to our minds - that humans can love. Love is a state of mind that cannot be defined easily but can be experienced by everyone. Love is very complicated. In fact it is so complicated that a person in love may be misunderstood to be acting in an extremely foolish manner by other people. The complexity of love is displayed in Rostand’s masterpiece drama Cyrano de Bergerac. This is accomplished by two characters that love the same woman and in the course neither one achieves love in utter perfection.
In Othello, Shakespeare tests the idea as to what romantic love is, and where it can withstand the test of time and exist without failing. Seeing the relationship between Desdemona and Othello, the play appears to say that marriage based on an innocent romantic love is bound to fail. Shakespeare seems cynical about the survival and endurance of a true type of love, however Othello and Desdemona are portrayed in the play as the two greatest innocents that ever were. The two appear to love one another romantically at first, but this romantic love couldn’t have hoped to have last without a basis of communication and understanding from both sides. Othello knows only about war and battle, that’s what he’s good at but not so much in anything else. Desdemona is little more than a girl; she isn’t very experienced in the ways of the world and has a naïve nature to her. She is taken in by Othello's war stories and his mysteriousness and is swept off her feet but she doesn’t really know him. The reason this spirals out so quickly and ends in tragedy is because there is no foundation for a relat...
It takes time and dedication to build a strong relationship. By overcoming obstacles and sticking together through hard times relationships grow stronger until both people truly love each other. Some people say they love someone, but do they really? Can you really love someone after only knowing them for a day? John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is about two men, George and Lennie, who have grown up together and work as a pair to earn money so they can buy their own land. Lennie is extremely strong, and George is incredibly smart. When Lennie gets caught in a dangerous situation with their bosses wife, George does what is best for Lennie to prevent him from
The Lais of Marie de France is a compilation of short stories that delineate situations where love is just. Love is presented as a complex emotion and is portrayed as positive, while at other times, it is portrayed as negative. The author varies on whether or not love is favorable as is expressed by the outcomes of the characters in the story, such as lovers dying or being banished from the city. To demonstrate, the author weaves stories that exhibit binaries of love. Two distinct types of love are described: selfish and selfless. Love is selfish when a person leaves their current partner for another due to covetous reasons. Contrarily, selfless love occurs when a lover leaves to be in a superior relationship. The stark contrast between the types of love can be analyzed to derive a universal truth about love.
Many people think that society has changed so much over the years. That the way that children act, has taken a turn for the worst, but in reality children are learning from their ancestors. Children are lying to their parents, they are sneaking out at night to be with a boy that is “the one”, children are going back into the age of Shakespeare. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” which was written by William Shakespeare in 1597, there are two teenagers, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love with each other. These two teenagers try to do everything that they can to live the rest of their lives together, except their families despise each other, so there is no way that they can live the rest of their lives together. So, many people believe that the way that our children are growing up today is taking away the fun parts of their childhood. However in this play Juliet did many of the things that teenagers are trying to do now. Children and sometimes adults now need to realize how your actions not only affect you but also the people around you, you also need to think about the consequences of the actions you make. At first Juliet falls in love at first sight with Romeo, then she takes a potion, which causes her family to think she is dead, and then how Friar Lawrence helps Juliet with the scheming, which shows how adults have to think about others as well.
In our society, love can be portrayed in thousands of ways. With simple things such as giving someone a hug or something more elaborate such as marriage. These things show are affection and love towards others, but it does not just end there. In Romeo and Juliet, as well as our society, we portray many different styles of love. These styles of love that I thought were portrayed well in Romeo and Juliet were physical love, emotional love, and paternal love.
William Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” is arguably the most widely known tragic love story of all time. Although it has been the subject of debate and controversy, it has inspired many love stories in recent times. One of the most controversial details of the play, are the relationships that Friar Lawrence and Nurse, have with Romeo and Juliet. Many argue that they were not being responsible with their actions regarding Romeo and Juliet’s marriage. Others say that their actions were justified, because the two teens trusted them. Nurse and Friar Lawrence did not do the “right thing” in this situation, and contributed to the events which eventually led to the death of Romeo and Juliet.
From the very first page Dante shows the reader the immense effect love has on him,
A Study of Teenage Infatuation in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Love and infatuation are both strong emotions that most will encounter within their lifetime. The two feelings are often misunderstood, but are differentiated through their outcomes and stability. True love does not only rely on physical attraction, but also on one’s personality. When one is truly in love, they accept their partner’s flaws and perfections.
In Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the lovers establish a relationship based on infatuation. Instances throughout the play prove that Romeo and Juliet’s relationship encompasses two hormonal teenagers’ desire for one another, rooted in their attraction to one another. This vanity proves that the relationship relies upon their outward appearances, not who they are inside. Their ages, the timing of the relationship, and the reprehensible actions they take while involved with one another are culminating events which authenticate that the pair 's relationship is based on infatuation. Romeo and Juliet are two teenagers brimming with hormones that drive their ersatz relationship. The timing of the relationship proves that Romeo and Juliet
Although love is interpreted as a wonderful thing it can also ruin someone's life, “Love is a trap. When is appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.” (Paulo Coelho) Love doesn’t fix people it breaks them asunder. It waits and waits for its next target to make a mistake and ruin everything they worked for. As seen in various works including; “The Raven” , Romeo and Juliet, and “The Gift of the Magi”. Romantic love is a force that inflicts pain upon those who believe in it or those who have been through it.
Throughout the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, various types of love are portrayed. According to some of the students of Shakespeare, Shakespeare himself had accumulated wisdom beyond his years in matters pertaining to love (Bloom 89). Undoubtedly, he draws upon this wealth of experience in allowing the audience to see various types of love personified. Shakespeare argues that there are several different types of love, the interchangeable love, the painful love and the love based on appearances, but only true love is worth having.
The love theme in Troilus and Cressida is undramatic, lacks plot interest and suspense since Shakespeare was concerned with portraying characters and the sketching of their emotions. Only a sad ending is likely since the audience already knows the outline of the story, the separation of the lovers. There are characters' utterances and actions which emphasise how an ironic undertone features throughout the play especially in the first two scenes in the presentation of idealised Cressida being undercut by Pandar and by Cressida herself. The apex of the love theme in Act 3 and Act 4 portrays the fundamental fragility of Cressida and the hollow passion of Troilus. The play's riddle lies in ''Let all constant men be Troiluses, all false women Cressida, and all brokers-between Pandars.''
In this essay I would like to emphasize different ideas of how love is understood and discussed in literature. This topic has been immortal. One can notice that throughout the whole history writers have always been returning to this subject no matter what century people lived in or what their nationality was.
Hemingway synthesizes the theory that because of the pain that is brought about, love is not able to survive. The feeling of love is felt by both Henry and Catherine, but it is hard to realize that when pain always surrounds the couple. Hemingway’s creative mind creates a frustrating love story for the reader – one in which ends in devastation. Love is present but will not last. Human nature is to be attracted to love, but humanity may be destined for pain because of the tragedy brought about by love.