Love Though Romeo and Juliet is arguably the most archetypal love story in the English language, it portrays only a very specific type of love: young, irrational, passionate love. In the play, Shakespeare ultimately suggests that the kind of love that Romeo and Juliet feel leads lovers to enact a selfish isolation from the world around them. Romeo and Juliet eschew their commitments to anyone else, choosing to act selflessly only towards one another. Sexuality does pervade the play, both through bawdy jokes and in the way that Romeo and Juliet anticipate consummating their marriage, but it does not define their love. Instead, their youthful lust is one of many reasons why their relationship grows so intense so quickly.
The story is one that makes you disapprove of the characters at first, but cheering for them at the end. It is truly a love story, but is more true to life than most. Instead of having an ending that reads “and they all lived happily ever after”, it ends with the reality of “it was clear to both of them that the most difficult part was just the beginning”. (84) In other words, true love is not easy and is most certainly is not a
Whereas the negative affect refers to the frequency and intensity of unkind emotions such as sadness. * I would choose not to be hooked to a machine that would only give feelings of cheerfulness. As mentioned in the text we may be only happy for a while, but I would not even choose to experience that for a while. Hedonic perspective defines happiness as maximizing pleasure with minimal pain. Being hooked to that machine even for a while might bring us hedonic happiness.
Human example and influence are also very powerful and can corrupt the mind eager for recognition or that craves to feel wanted and accepted. The morals and values that this type of person has been taught are pushed to the back of his/her mind and become less important than the need to "fit in". Unfortunately for these people, any attention and recognition is sought after, even if it is negative. There is an obvious difference between those who are afflicted with no conscience at birth and those who have one. No amount of moral teaching or love and comfort will keep these people satisfied and happy to be "good".
The Golden One and Equality fall in love, although they are not aware of this. They have not been through these feelings before, and it is a sin to even be talking to one another. Equality and the Golden One, eventually finds the “Unspeakable Word”… I, and lets the Golden One know of this. The Golden one has been trying to tell Equality that she loves him, she has instead been saying, “We love you.” She knows this isn’t right. Once she finds the missing piece of the puzzle she tries once again saying, “I love
"(act I, scene iv, 53) Romeo quickly decides that he is in love with Juliet even though he has not yet spoken to her. In this example he uses only physical appearances to judge his feelings. True love can not be judged by appearances. You can not want to marry someone simply because they were very pretty. Also Romeo on two separate occasions states that he loves a girl.
Hooks states, “ It is practically impossible to maintain a spirit of emotional well-being if one is daily doing work that is unsatisfying, that causes intense stress, and that gives little satisfaction.”(23). True happiness cannot be reached through work that you do not love doing. Hooks defines good work in terms of “right livelihood,” a phrase she borrows from author Marsha Sinetar to describe work that is consciously chosen and done with mindfulness and commitment (24). For hooks, doing work that promotes “right livelihood” is the right way to live your life. If you’re not doing work that you love doing each and every day, then you are not exemplifying what good work is defined as.
Although, I believe that they have good intentions, they contain flaws on many different levels. Peace organizations are based around not only the hope for an optimistic future, but the pessimistic present in which we live. They tend to have unrealistic goals and cannot connect to people on the level in which is needed to make such an extreme and permanent change. People have trouble understanding what the present organizations are trying to achieve, and they fail to convince people that they are not the unprofessional hippies as the majority of society sees them. Finally, people of our current culture are selfish in the sense that they take opportunities as they come, and peace organizations are most often than not unable to persuade people that wars have a negative effect on the economy.
Ignorance is Destruction Ken Liew By the subjective nature of perception, human beings are left to face conflict and sadly experience the inevitable by-product known as suffering. Perhaps it is through such suffering that defines the world we live in, a world which places high expectations on individuals and ridicules those who fail to meet them. It is important as individuals to acknowledge we are unable to fully dictate our own circumstances. However, there are many people that fail to cope with their insecurities and trick themselves into believing an alternate reality exists in order to bring happiness, avoid ridicule and ultimately maintain a sense of security in the world they live in. It is through self-ignorance and the notion that one’s happiness can be attained through living in the fantasy world that coerces most into avoiding the truth.
One of the questions raised from Waiting for Godot is if being free with no purpose is better than having a purpose yet having to suffer. In this case we would think mainly about physical freedom. For example, Vladimir and Estragon have no tangible reason to stay where they are; yet they choose to stay waiting for Godot. Whereas Lucky is being physically held and controlled by the leash that Pozzo holds. Vladimir and Estragon do not feel any lasting physical discomfort, but Lucky constantly feels some sort of physical pain.