The love story between Troilus, the Trojan prince, and the maiden Cressida is only one of the two major plot lines in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. However, the actions of Troilus and Cressida seem more poignant because they deal closely with the concept of human values and virtues. Indeed, it ... Read More
Imagery of Young Lover in Edmund Spensers Sonnet 75 Edmund Spensers poem Sonnet 75 creates lots of sound images and emotional feelings. The Sonnet describes a man and his lover at the oceanfront strand, and he writes her name into the sand. One day I wrote her name upon the ... Read More
"Winterbourne and Prufrock" When creating his famous poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", T.S. Eliot was inspired by a character depicted in the novella known as Daisy Miller, written by Henry James. This character, Winterbourne, was intertwined and considered when creating the timid character of Prufrock. It is ... Read More
What Makes Us Love? What makes us love? This question has been studied for centuries by philosophers, scientists, and even writers in search of a sensible answer. Shakespeare, for one, explored many ideas to justify love. In his play, A Midsummers Night Dream, he lists various thoughts on what he ... Read More
Dark it was, quiet it was, and lonely I was when my love left me. It hurt me so much. But what can I do? What should I do? After all had gone, I can think clearly, no feelings will control my mind. The first two questions got in my ... Read More
Romeo and Juliet's youth produces a problem for Shakespeare he must convince the audience of the sincerity and genuineness of their love for each other. He accomplishes this in a variety of ways. He presents courtly love and romantic love to highlight the authenticity of the romantic love and uses ... Read More
According to Dictionary.com, the word "relationship" is defined as "A particular type of connection existing between people related to or having dealings with each other." There are many ways to make a relationship last. Love, trust, and communication are the three most important attributes in my eyes. Relationships between friends, ... Read More
Emily had trouble letting go of her loved ones in the short story and due to this insecurity, she went mad in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. After her father passed away, the thought of strangers coming to take her father away from her was too much for ... Read More
Love, Love, Love- We are Surrounded by Love "Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality- not as ... Read More
Page1The Return Of The Native Numerous themes run through Thomas Hardys novel The Return of the Native. They serve as a means of collecting together the different ideas that Hardy wanted to incorporate into the novel, and introduce the main plots. One of the novels central themes is coincidence. It ... Read More
Poetry - Lauris Edmond and Denis Glover Question Show how the poet or poets you have studied this year have been creative in their use of language. Denis Glover and Lauris Edmond are both creative writers. They take the everyday language used by ordinary people and create lasting and affecting ... Read More
The love of Hamlet for Ophelia Hamlet is without any reservations, one of Shakespeares most mystifying plays. Although the play has a concise story, it is filled with many uncertainties relating to different issues behind the plot. The reader is left with many uncertainties about the true feelings of prince ... Read More
Love, or what is more commonly known as love, can take hold in an instant and feel very much like magic that is being put over you. It can make you do things that you would never done and makes you feel like you are floating in air. It hits ... Read More
Shakespeare's comedy, 'Twelfth Night', is not only about tricks, pranks or black humour moreover, it's deeply about love and different types of love and how they affect different personalities. The different types of love mentioned by Shakespeare in 'Twelfth Night' are True love, boasting love, self-love and friendship. 'Twelfth Night' ... Read More
THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE During the eighteenth century, many poets explored the concepts of love. Many of these poems discussed lost loves, or unreturned love. John Donne discussed his feelings towards love in his poem "The Broken Heart." Donne personifies love in this poem by saying how once grasped by ... Read More
In A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway illustrates in a simple and pure style the development of the relationship between a young American ambulance driver and an English nurse during World War I in Italy. This love-story is marked, as John A. Sanford describes in The Invisible Partners, by identification ... Read More
In T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the author is establishing the trouble the narrator is having dealing with middle age. Prufrock(the narrator) believes that age is a burden and is deeply troubled by it.. His love of some women cannot be because he feels the prime ... Read More
The Importance of Community in Beloved The immortal words, "Am I my brother's keeper?" uttered by Cain to God are answered in the book Beloved by Toni Morrison. She responds that everyone is responsible for the people around them. The community in the book is an important influence to the ... Read More
The Great Gatsby F. Scoot Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a novel about love and disillusionment. This novel was written in the "Jazz Age" when money, status and progress were very important for Americans. At the beginning of the movie I found two themes The importance of the social classes ... Read More
According to modern English definition supplied by dictionary.com, love is described as 1. A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness. 2. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward ... Read More
As with almost all "Christian" holidays, Easter has been secularized and commercialized. The dichotomous nature of Easter and its symbols, however, is not necessarily a modern fabrication. The Story of Easter has been held as a holy celebration throughout the past, and still remains sacred today. The events leading up ... Read More
The book "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton is a book about protest and disorder of both whites and blacks over the white segregation policy (apartheid). The book describes how understanding between whites and blacks can stop mutual terror and hostility, and bring reform and hope to a small ... Read More
"In the Name of Love" Love is a mysterious power and is hard to come by, true love that is. It can come and go or it can stay and be real. But people tend to abuse love and move towards lust and selfishness. This is how people can get ... Read More
D.H. Lawrence Son and Lover Bildungsroman, a form of fiction which allows the novelist to recreate through the maturing of his protagonist some of his own remembered intensity of experience (Nivin, Alastair pg. 34) D.H. Lawrence re-created his own life experience through the writing of Sons and Lovers, an intensely ... Read More
Sonnet XXXIII, or Sonnet 33, by William Shakespeare, is part of the young man cycle. This sonnet discusses the young mans fleeting love, and the main theme is clouded love. The sonnet shows the sun being obscured by clouds just as the mans love is taken away from the author. ... Read More
The two characters, Tom Hauptman from Callahans Crosstime Saloon (The Time-Traveler), and the speaker in Robert Brownings poem, Porphyrias Lover, may easily be compared and contrasted. Once the reader can understand the two characters, it becomes evident that they are similar, yet easily contrastable. Tom and the speaker are similar ... Read More
This essay is about the lessons Ive learned growing up in . You can learn many different things when you grow up in a small town. Ive learned these lessons through painful times and others Ive learned through times of joy. All the lessons you learn in life are valuable. ... Read More
Shakespeare In Love and Reality According to Jeremy Giltzer, Hollywood has turned to history to create inspired moments of action, drama, and patriotism. It has provided the movies with some of the most climatic moments and colorful characters imaginable, while making complicated issues of the past understandable on a modern ... Read More
Sex in Poetry Although Marvells To His Coy Mistress and Marlowes The Passionate Shepherd to His Love share many similarities and differences, both men have one basic purpose for their poems, to talk the women into being their loves using promises of beautiful and mostly unattainable things. Andrew Marvells To ... Read More
Romeo and Juliet, is a story of two young lovers, whose love was destined for destruction. They did not imagine that their love would lead to the tragedies that it did. These two young people did nothing wrong except fall in love. Three aspects of their destruction included the feud ... Read More