Romantic love is the most basic type, where two people have a mutual connection of love towards each other. A good example is the relationship between Romeo and Juliet: the love between the two is mutual.
However, they value different means of love although their love maybe as much as each other. In the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet, the line of "are you going to leave me so unsatisfied?" and "I would be satisfied if we made each other promises of love" said Romeo. However, the persona in Sonnet 18, he written that "once you 're captured in my eternal verses, as long as men are alive and have eyes with which to see, this poem will live and keep you alive ." These show differences as Romeo value more at immediate promises, and at the opposite, persona in Sonnet 18values more in eternal love.
TO LOVE OR NOT TO LOVE? “The most interesting aspects of texts written in different times is seeing the difference in what people value.” Possibly one of the best known piece of American prose fiction of its time, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, develops an ironic but ultimately pessimistic point of view on the materialistic and superficial society presented in the 1920s which prevented the ideas of pure love. The form of a prose fiction does not have a structure which makes the novel unique. Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, presents a more idealistic and optimistic view about love and hope. She portrays her personal voice through the use of sonnets, specifically Petrarchan.
They may reason that it was “love at first sight” but seeking the pleasure of relentless hunting for ‘young, unrequited love’ and incorporating the adrenaline of rebellion can distinguish that many of the decisions made by Romeo and Juliet could be caused by the level of their maturity and the basis of their contradicting personalities. One literary criticism signified that, “Such widely shared sentiments encourage us to reward the play more as lyric triumph than tragedy and, unfortunately, fail to do justice to its psychological and cultural complexity. Rather than presenting us with an uplifting "marriage of two minds" and mutual self-sacrifice, as these readings imply, Romeo and Juliet illustrate radically different perceptions toward each other and the world, differences that become more evident to us as the play goes on, particularly as we note the disparity between their dying speeches.” (McKim) Another Literary Criticism supporting the concept of
Shakespeare uses metaphors to convey the theme of love. An example of this is when Romeo says ‘it is the East and Juliet is the sun’. Romeo is comparing Juliet to the sun therefore it conveys the idea that Romeo thinks very highly of Juliet. He believes her to be very beautiful and highly important. This creates the impression that Romeo is saying that he couldn’t live without her.
Our classic idea of romantic love is embodied in Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare presents this as a force of nature. This idea is established in the plays prologue with the line “pair of star crossed lovers
Minor crises lead to major confrontation followed by a resolution. The terms that literary pieces fall under are subject to the application of the readers own interpretation of the story, making it difficult to say with absolute certainty wither “The Passing of Grandison” is a naturalistic or realistic story. However there is more than enough textual evidence to support the idea of realism. “When it is said that is was done to please a woman, there ought perhaps to be enough said to explain anything; for what a man will not do to please a woman is yet to be discovered.” (704). Chesnutt sets the mood for “The Passing of Grandison” very well with this opening sentence.
The play presents a rich variety of types of love, from foolishness to self-sacrificing unrequited love. Each character in the play depicts love differently and acts differently in front of love. A few characters such as Viola are very sincere and careful of their love whereas most of the other characters such as Orsino act foolish in front of love. Orsino is represented by Shakespeare as a melancholy lover. He is also in love with Olivia but it can be said that he is mostly in love with the idea of love itself since he talks incessantly of love: “O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou” (I. i.
Some people may think that American pop culture lacks depth and wouldn’t be popular for long. They are also afraid that it may have a bad effect on the youth. We must admit that there are some pop cultural products that are superficial indeed and soon are forgotton. But we should not ignore that some are still popular from generation to generation. And they finally become classical.
Pride and prejudice is a beautiful, semi-epistolary romance novel about the love and relationships in Regency Britain, set in a fictional town called Meryton in Hertfordshire. It also tells a story about how even the most perceptive people can quickly and wrongly judge people as proud or unloving, when in fact, they are just shy and unable to cope with difficulties. Most people think that there too much amatory and womanish themes, and it is a romance novel for ladies only. But I think this novel nurtures both male and female, it has a great influence on the developing one’s character, so it is good both for teenagers and mature people. Firstly, Austen helps us to distinguish what is appearance, and what is reality.