In the play you can see familial, friendly, unrequited, true, and sexual love. All the different types of love and the relationships that came with it are the cause of the tragic ending of Othello the Moor and the gentle Desdemona. The first type of love that you see in the play is family love. The relationship between Brabantio and Desdemona in the play is very strained seeing as how she ran off to get married without his consent, which back in the day was a big no-no. You can still see the love that they have for each other when Desdemona says “To you I am bound for life and education; / My life and education both do learn me/ How to respect you.
This may have been the case as in the 14th to 16th century when the poem was set, women were treated like this and a man would choose his wife taking great consideration into the wealth of her and her family. This is shown in the poem when the Duke mentions the dowry in line fifty one ‘no just pretence of mine for dowry will be disallowed’. This suggests how it is very important to the Duke that his new wife has a considerable amount of wealth. Due to the way in which the Duke is described he is portrayed as a controlling and self-centred man. The reader interprets that he is a lot happier now that his duchess is dead and all he has left of her is a painting which is the best scenario for him.
This line reflects the subject of the poem that love is eternal. Browning however, goes on by using the internal rhyme of breadth and depth which gives the reader an impression that the love she has for her husband has increased further. In addition to that, breadth, depth and height echoes Ephesians III 17-19, where Saint Paul prays for comprehension of the length, breadth, depth, and height of Christ's love and the fullness of God. Browning then embarks on a religious idea of love “my soul can reach”. The diction of soul implies that the love she has for her husband is genuine.
Olds suggests in this poem that “True Love’’ is all about two people having passion, oneness, and comfort with each other. These three things in a marriage or relationship create true love. Also, she tries to show that without true love, sex is no good. From the beginning of the poem, the speaker talks about the passion between her and her husband. She expresses that their love making is very intense and passionate.
“Les grands seigneurs” is about the relationship between men and women and romantic love. Initially the poem seems to be a celebration of courtly love, but a twist suggests marriage changes everything. The title tells us that the subject of the poem is men because it translates as “The great lords”. The first eight lines of the poem describe men in elevated and hyperbolic language. However there is a change in tone of the final stanza.
Beauvoir’s analysis of love is ultimately the comparison of the two genders. Within the differences of the genders authentic and in inauthentic love. De Beauvoir labels her theories on two forms of love. Inauthentic love, she believes that love is used as a liberator, where the woman takes pride in her matters over the one she loves (2010). Her love is inauthentic in the way she loves, due to viewing her lover, being godlike, this is inauthentic in the sense that no man is godlike.
Jane Austen writes: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering the neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters” (5). This implies that the man wants a wife and the woman is not in a place to turn him down. The man becomes her claim, and for him she fights with other women. It seems as if women are plentiful and men are rare.
In "Beginning of the Songs of Delight", Papyrus Harris 500 demonstrates fanciful love through "…apportioned to you is my heart,/ I do for you what it desires,/ when I am in your arms" (lines 1-3). In Shakespeare's "Othello", the Moor and Desdemona declare their love for one another, at the protest of her father and the disbelief of the councilmen (Act I, scene iii). Their romantic love was unrealistic because of their age difference, and fanciful because she was intrigued by the stories of heroism and daring that he imparted to her. Passionate love is, by definition, ruled by intense emotion and marked by intense feelings as is expressed in "My body thrives, my heart exults/ At our walking
Mr. Rochester, being the first man who Jane has fallen in love with makes him a big hero in my mind. Aside from Mr. Rochester falling in love with Jane Eyre he wanted to make her his mistress. To many people including Jane this is a very selfish thing to do. But, his love for Jane was unconditional and he didn’t want to lose her. He was willing to do whatever he can to marry her putting all of his political reasons aside from him.
He also talks about how important love is, and states that the problem of human existence is love. In “A natural history of love,” Ackerman explores historical, biological, literature, and pop cultural aspects of love. Each book has its own individual outlook on love; with some similar themes throughout the books. In “The art of loving,” Fromm states love is to be learned like an art form. He also stresses the importance of loving one’s self and being open to love.