But when Shakespeare wrote about love, it was about many different kinds of love, and there usually are no ‘happily ever after’ endings. “As an abstract concept, love is typically taken to represent a range of human emotions, from simple feelings of pleasure to overwhelming and ineffable attraction towards another person” (Ahmetoglu, Swami, and Chamorro-Premuzic). The main theme of the play is love and this statement is a good example of the different types of love in Othello. While the love between Othello and Desdemona takes center stage, there is many different love relationships in the play as well. In the play you can see familial, friendly, unrequited, true, and sexual love.
The romantic love of Romeo and Juliet has become very popular and is the ideal example of star-crossed lovers. The love of family honor is what keeps these lovers apart: the feud between the Capulets and Montagues. The purpose of this essay is to provide examples of these two types of love, which will then be compared and contrasted. People should understand Romeo and Juliet, and further study its themes to build up a successful literature pathway. Romantic love is the most basic type, where two people have a mutual connection of love towards each other.
Romeo and Juliet’s love, like the love of the youth, is acted upon very quickly and impulsively. They are impatient and do not stop and think about the consequences of their actions. Their immature and inexperienced management of their love passion for each other ultimately results in their death. Think about Romeo in the very beginning of the play, when he talks about Rosaline. He describes her looks as he says: "O, she is rich in beauty, only poor".
Friar Lawrence makes fun of Romeo saying that young men only love what they see. They do not love with their hearts but with their eyes and thoughts. Their love is shallow and superficial. He questions whether Romeo shed a single tear for Rosaline before moving on. Friar Lawrence brings out Romeo’s fickle minded nature by showing how he falls in love with a new woman, Juliet, in a very short time frame.
A very obedient child, yet very strong in her devotion to love. The only time she disobeyed her parent’s wishes was for her devotion to her husband Romeo. Juliet's love for Romeo was as pure as his love for her. It was love at first sight. She was his lady and his love.
Edna St. Vincent Millay and Anne Bradstreet express both similar and different uses of literary elements such as theme, tone and style. This is made evident in the two love poems, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet and “Love is not all” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The authors vividly convey the general idea of love to the audience and readers. Although both poems are similar, there are many differences between these poems as well. In Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” she intensifies the meaning of love by suggesting to the reader that she adores and loves her husband.
This was another sub-theme which is a main feature of Sochienne’s character. This is seen in few occasions such as where she says “…she preferred a venue of emotional significance to her than an overpriced gilded hall”. Also, on her wedding day when her mother suggested more make-up she declined. This implies that she saw less as more that is, she saw the elegance in simplicity. The sub-theme of unconditional love wrapped up the story as Sochienne shows that despite everything that had happened between her mum and herself, she still loved her.
Compare the ways the two poets have used poetic form, structure and language to express their ideas. ‘What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why’, a sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay, as well as ‘Never give all the heart’, a sonnet by Yeats, are deeply rooted in the theme of love. Both in the sonnet form, both conform to a traditional way of expressing love and both poems have similarities and dissimilarities in form, structure and language. Both poems have a message of the transience of love. Millay mentions ‘unremembered lads that not again’.
Did Othello “love too well and not too wisely”? In William Shakespeare’s Othello, love was an important theme in the play. Othello’s character was one whom loved his wife and his best friend. Othello seemed to be madly in love with Desdemona, however his love for Iago seemed to be even greater and more “mad”. As Othello’s love for Iago grew stronger, his love for Desdemona began to fade.
In the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare love is an important theme. In this play, Juliet and Romeo fall in love while Romeo is trying to get over Rosalind and Juliet is having an arranged marriage, their families are also feuding. In Shakespeare's play, Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet all have different views of love. Mercutio’s view of love is very humorous and not true, Romeo’s view of love is hopeless; he likes being in love, but does not like love itself. Lastly, Juliet’s view of love is logical; she does not follow love blindly.