Essays 31 - 60
This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....
in what was historically thought of as a straitlaced society. Lystra (1996) - assistant professor at California State University ...
a murderer sees the violence that he perpetrates as his only means of salvaging his sense of self, of maintaining his pride (Gilli...
is the country that invaded China in 1937 and brutalized its people until the end of the Second World War eight years later. This ...
In six pages this creative and descriptive essay features a writer's memories of a carefree country summer during childhood. Befo...
have attempted to fine tune a definition speaks to the vast comprehensiveness of one of mans most basic of emotions. Love enlists...
want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...
pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...
the little black book" - for good; they dont keep copies on the laptop or stashed somewhere else ("Recognizing the Signs"). They g...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
ideas. As we shall soon see, through these speeches Plato seems to have reasoned out how it is that mankind make their way from th...
of as gold, silver and slate. Gold is the level where there is a situation for a man where the girl loves him wholeheartedly. He...
generation ancestors behaved as well. He classifies most relationships between family members as "the orders of love," and indicat...
While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...
she proved to me as I proved to him that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. " Here, the idea that love is powerfu...
become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...
anxiety of aloneness, but the wish to conquer or be conquered, by vanity, by the wish to hurt or even to destroy, as much as it ca...
tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...
love that both lives and dies upon ones overzealous sense of passion. "There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more...
a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...
this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...
"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...
power, but also begins to lose his friends as well. "As his Roman allies, even the ever-faithful Enobarbus, abandon him, Antony fe...
they all present us with an obsessive narrator. The examination of the poems also illustrates how Browning presents us with women ...
were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...
war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...
survive, the most poignant works were his love sonnets. Surrey was considered to be quite the ladies man, even though he was marr...
enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...
Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera is evaluated for thematic elements of love and truth. The protagonist Florentino is the focus...
no matter how precious we may believe ours to actually be. Some of Allens films are more consistently filled with the idea of l...