This type of love tends to occur in those with low self-esteem and those who gain confidence in pleasing their love interest. Mania and agape love are similar in that they both have the ability to develop into a very intense and unhealthy relationship for both parties. In both instances the parties involved have the ability to lose their sense of reality. The styles of love that have been most prevalent in my life are logical love called pragma, and friendship love called storge or philia. A love that develops from a friendship usually prevents a lot of disappointments because you already know a lot about that person.
Love: The Perfection of Affection In the play written by William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, two youthful lovers dramatically take their own lives because of their overwhelming love for each other. Several characters bestow opposing views of love, none of which are more divergent than Romeo’s and Mercutio’s. Mercutio believes that love is a lustful game in which the ultimate reward is the fulfillment of a sexual hunger, while Romeo accepts love as affection and devotion. Romeo’s ideals are the very principle and nature of which love is precisely about. Mercutio inundates with wit, imagination, and crudity.
But Allende is a psychological realist, and she recognizes realism and the need for the oxygen of romance in the routine of human existence. Allende clearly shows that emotions don’t always follow rules and the most unlikely characters find themselves being enrolled by unexpected passion in the institution of intimacy, as in the light-hearted
Love and Addiction in Wuthering Heights Love by definition is an intense feeling of deep affection for someone. In a lifetime, one may strive to find love in and for another person. However, is it possible to be so in love with someone that you become obsessed and addicted to this person in every possible way? In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, the line between love and addiction, in relation to the three main characters Catherine, Linton, and Heathcliff, is crossed many times. Addictions are based on a need for psychological security, and the person experiencing this will stop at nothing to maintain the bond held with their partner.
She creates the feeling that passion is an intense emotion that is more mysterious than love could ever be. Passion is an ardent drive, an escape, the fulfillment of fantasy, and it is as mysterious as it is intense. The Storm presents an affair between a married man and a married woman, who know each other from their younger years. The affair is portrayed as a necessary escape from reality. It is the fulfillment of
Romance is the seeking of passion, which will lead people to sacrifice almost everything including commitments, obligations, duty and even other relationships in search for passion. Romance has to be a key part of romantic love, but by itself is a selfish projection of our feelings onto another in the relationship. True love abandons all of the ego’s desires and seeks to find the appreciation of another’s value. True love is not just romance, but a true desire to serve and affirm the one we love. In the Night Waitress, romance or passion is exactly what the waitress is missing and is wanting when she says, “There’s a man who leans over the jukebox nightly pressing the combinations of numbers.
Lust is something that can be turned into love. It just takes two true people to make that work. Two people that can find themselves looking into each others eyes wondering what tomorrow will bring is what makes you fall in love. Love and lust have very different meanings. You see that love is more durable than lust.
The Differences of Love and Infatuation Love and infatuation, two very different things yet they are confused quite often. For a while most people can not tell the different between the two, both can dominate our thoughts and emotions. Jenijoy La Belle writes in “Loofah Is a Man Splendored Thing” that infatuation is in some ways a form of insanity, but ultimately different from love which based on common desires. She makes this conclusion by thinking of infatuation as being illusory and vapid, and also gives many examples of infatuation being by nature irrational. Love however is mutual and realistic, while infatuation requires neither.
Passion is a strong emotion, excitement, and physiological arousal, often tied to sexual desire, and attraction. Commitment is the conscious decision to stay dedicated to someone and stay in a relationship through thick and thin, or for better or worse. By combining all of these dimensions of love, it describes several varieties of love and specific components of romantic and companionate love. All of these different types of love are available, so everyone has a chance to experience at least one type of love. The six (6) different types of love are: * Romantic Love (Intimacy + Passion) * Companionate Love (Intimacy + Commitment) * Fatuous Love (Passion + Commitment) * Infatuated Love (Passion Only) * Empty Love (Commitment Only) * Consummate Love (Intimacy + Passion + Commitment) Romantic love is the combination of intimacy and passion.
Characters like Portia and Bassanio, and Jessica and Lorenzo are shown to be madly in love with each other. This romantic love that they share helps them tide of crisis like choosing the right casket and escaping from Shylock respectively. Also, this love is shown to be able to cause characters to be self sacrificial and able to overlook their partners small mistakes, for example to overlook the