This belief or Hellenism ushered forth equal rights, prosperity, democracy, and a high standard for education. Hellenistic philosophy grasped the idea of beauty and broke it down into three major components; symmetry, proportion, and harmony. All three ingredients combined in the perfect balance creates beauty in all things. According to Pericles, Athens is a model example of “beauty”. Athenians truly invested this thought into their lives from everyday mundane tasks and civic duties, all the way to their art and world renowned architecture.
Suzanne Eastwood Dr. Caughron Literature Class 4 10 December 2012 Romeo and Juliet: An Analysis of Various Forms of Love In the romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare illustrates through character relationships the power of Romeo’s and Juliet’s agape love for each other and its transcendence over all other forms of love. Shakespeare permits the way the characters speak and relate to each other to reveal truths about the general nature of love and the distinguishing features of agape love. Particular relationships in the drama, Romeo’s love for Rosaline and Friar Lawrence’s fatherly love for Romeo, provide evidence for the potency of Romeo’s genuine, sacrificial love for Juliet. One particular relationship which accentuates Romeo’s love for Juliet is Romeo’s love for Rosaline which demonstrates eros love. While Romeo felt passionate, eros love for Rosaline, the sincerity was lacking and eventually deteriorated.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s sonnet sequence Sonnets from the Portugeuse, explores the experence of idealised love in the patriarchal confines of the Victorian era, juxtaposed against F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, which comments on the unatanability of idealised love due to the corruption of the American dream. Through an exploration of love, both composers subvert societies preconcieved attitutdes to love through the reccurring motif of ‘Plato’s ladder of love’. Barrett-Browning’s poems highlight the realities of a spiritual, connected love, contrasting to Fitzgeralds commentary on the illusionary goals of ‘true’ platonic love in the post WWI hedonistic, materialistic society. Barrett-Browning conveys the Romantic ideals of platonic love, against the prudish rationalism of the Victorian era. The Petrarchan sonnet form has an inbuilt dialectic structure, enabling her to have a progressive narrative, which follows the path of the Platonic system.
The poetry of Sappho and the numerous speeches in Plato’s Symposium both deal primarily with homoerotic love. Sappho, one of the only female poets in Ancient Greece, speaks from the female perspective whereas Plato’s work focuses on the nature of this love between men. Several fundamental elements are common to both perspectives, including similar ideals of youth and beauty as well as the idea of desire as integral to both views on love. Despite these similarities, there is an important distinction, which can be understood in terms of Pausanias’ concepts of Common versus Celestial Love. Common lovers are focused more on the physical experience than the intellectual contact in a relationship.
Ferlinghetti views the painting as a symbol of how the male is traditionally dominant in various human relationships, concurring with the feminist ideals that were developing at the time of writing. The poem can be viewed as a satire of conventional ideas of romantic love. “The Kiss” was painted between 1907 and 1908. It is one of Gustav Klimt’s most popular works, traditionally seen as a paramount image of romance and sexual love. While at an initial glance it may seem so, there may be ulterior meanings to this piece of art.
In Mythology and Hercules, it represents (in many ways) that the ancient Greek culture is different from the current American culture. For instance, the Greek culture puts forth the whole truth, with no sugar-coating. The gods and goddesses of ancient times are supposedly seen as perfect but really are not. This is especially represented by Hera and Zeus’ relationship, which is a difficult and trying one. In the American culture and in the more currently written piece, you can certainly tell that more humor is added.
The Romans willingly adopted many concepts from the Greek. An example of this is the Roman religion and its gods and goddesses, which was greatly influenced by contact with the Greeks. The Greek religion was a polytheistic religion. It consisted of twelve brilliant and strong gods that were referred to as the Olympians. The chief of the twelve Olympians was Zeus, the sky god.
They are contradicting themselves because they are only giving some of us the right to marry in search of real happiness, the others are expected to shack up and pretend. If you are what is considered to be a straight person, you can go out, meet your soul mate, get married and have that wonderful American dream everyone talks about all in one night. Homosexuals however, can go out, meet their soul mate, and move in together but that’s about as far as they can get legally. They won’t be allowed to marry or reap the benefits of marriage in most states and if they decide to move to a state that honors same sex marriage it will only be honored in that
William Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet is a popular study for various themes, including love. The five types of love include unrequited love, romantic love, parental love, friendship and love of family honor. Love is an overpowering force that takes over all other values, loyalties and emotions.The ones I will be elaborating is romantic love and love of family honor. I find these the direct cause of the eventual ending of the plot- the death of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The romantic love of Romeo and Juliet has become very popular and is the ideal example of star-crossed lovers.
The theme of love is predominant throughout the play Romeo and Juliet, but there are also many similarities and differences between Romeo and Juliet and the 154 Shakespearean sonnets. The many types of loves in the play are shown by the relationships different characters have, for example the brotherly love Mercutio has for Romeo. Each one of Shakespeare's sonnets represents a different type of love linking to Romeo and Juliet in one way or the other One of the types of love that is showcased through out this timeless classic is true love; it plays a significant t role as it effects the characters actions. An example of true love is when Romeo tells Juliet ‘’Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow.” Shakespeare uses a metaphor here and it shows Romeo swears by the moon however Juliet says ´’O swear not by the moon, th’inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb.” From this quote we see Juliet is aware of the fact that Romeo has feelings for her, however she tells him that his love should be constant and not like the ever changing moon so she basically wants it to be true love, in which actions speak louder than words. We could link this to Sonnet 18 in which Shakespeare says "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day."