Essays about Love

I am sentimental, outgoing, indecisive, understanding, curious, naive, lazy, crazy and young. I want to be…, well a lot of things, and growing is discovering what they are. I feel people cannot see the potential within, although there is no one to blame but myself. I look to others for approval instead of myself, I…

            Like any other love sonnet by Shakespeare, Sonnet 116 romanticizes an ideal type of love. In a nutshell, the sonnet defines what constitutes love and what does not. These definitions are best employed by Shakespeare through metaphors, a figure of speech that states a thing is something else. For instance, in the sonnet, Shakespeare…

Professor Doody English 113 December 9, 2011 Shakespeare’s Othello: Love, Infidelity and Loss Throughout Shakespeare’s great works of classic literature, he often takes the sacred institutions of marriage, and corrupts it by allowing its passion-filled symbolism to create the seeds of its own destruction. Whether this is a result of Shakespeare’s own experiences or just…

Thomas Hobbes opens with the idea that all animals live within two sets of perpetual motion. The first being the inborn nature of animals to breath, the pulse and course of blood, the acquiring of nutrition and the exertion that follows, his vital motions. The second animal motions are voluntary, to speak, move and go….

Wuthering Heights, the great novel by Emily Bronte, though not inordinately long is an amalgamation of childhood fantasies, friendship, romance, and revenge. But this story is not a simple story of revenge, it has more profound implications. As Arnold Kettle, the English critic, said,” Wuthering Heights is an expression in the imaginative terms of art…

‘Porphyria’s Lover’ shows the shift of power in a loving relationship. The poem begins by telling us that the speaker is sitting around in his cottage listening to a storm outside, ‘The rain set in early tonight, the sullen wind was soon awake’. Waiting for Porphyria to enter, ‘I listened with heart fit to break’…

There are many types of love that are portrayed In Shakespearean play “Romeo & Juliet”. One of them being sincere, dignified love that both the main characters, Romeo and Juliet, have for each other. Although it seems that Romeo and Juliet do love each other with true, whole-hearted love, it does seem that they want…

Rizal’s first essay, “The Love of Country,” was written when he was 21 and newlyarrived in Madrid. It was published under the name of “Laong Laan” on 20 August 1882 in Diarong Tagalog,” a Philippine newspaper, then on 31 October 1890 in La Solidaridad, Madrid. This essay is a poignant dissertation of what Rizal calls…

Everyone makes mistakes, but everyone has the second chance to change in their lives. Langston Hughes has written many enlightening stories to tell us positive attitude and lifestyles. In Hughes’ short story, “Thank You, Ma’am “, it talks about a boy named Roger, who attempts to steal Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones’s purse but fails….

In the short story ‘The Demon Lover,” written by Elizabeth Bowen, she describes a story of a middle aged woman who had made a promise with her fiance© twenty-five years ago. It begins by Mrs.. Kathleen Drover coming back to her old bombed house in London to pick up a few things left behind. While…