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Film, Love, and Symposium by Plato

within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...

Three Short Stories on Love

in Gilbs narrative is that Jake really doesnt know how to be anything other then deceptive and manipulative, the small-time con ar...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Sharon Olds and Short Fiction of Raymond Carver

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

Symposium of Plato and the Concept of Objectified Love

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...

Bard's Personality as Reflected in His Plays

were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

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...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Women

they all present us with an obsessive narrator. The examination of the poems also illustrates how Browning presents us with women ...

William Shakespeare and Cleopatra's Relationship with Mark Antony

power, but also begins to lose his friends as well. "As his Roman allies, even the ever-faithful Enobarbus, abandon him, Antony fe...

Chapter 2 of The Transformation of Man by Rosemary Haughton

it threatens what they each have come to see as the status quo of their lives. However, as this new experience begins to give each...

'Against Love' by Katherine Philips, 'The Sick Rose' by William Blake and the Theme of Love

William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...

Love and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

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...

Contemporary Society and Love

become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...

Venus, Mars, and Cupid in Roman Mythology

This paper consists of three pages and examines the Roman mythological gods and goddesses Mars, the war god, Cupid, the love god, ...

Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages this paper presents the argument that Desdemona's love for the Moorish Othello expands romantic love to include fide...

Notion of Love or Precis in Plato's Arguments Presented in Phaedrus and Symposium

who, even for women, is feminine perforce" (Hoff, 1997, p. 215). Indeed, Platos Symposium exemplifies the need for virtue w...

Religion and Romance in John Donne's Poetry

In six pages this report discusses how religion manifests itself in John Donne's love poetry with the soul's passions and spiritua...

Love During the Age of Cholera

In a 6 page paper, the love qualities of the main characters in Gabriel Marquez's novel are compared with those in Robert J. Stern...

Love and Its Power in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

her womanhood, she is one who lives at the mercy of her desires. Not aware -- or at least not caring -- about the havoc she wreak...

William Butler Yeats and 3 Poems on Time and Love

In five pages this report discusses how love and time are featured in the poems 'Adam's Curse,' 'O Do not Love too Long,' and 'Nev...

How Love is Interpreted by Mel in 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love' by Raymond Carver

out, inasmuch as one cannot love someone more than life itself. Indeed, this concept proves too great a burden for another person...

Khalil Gibran and Love

In 5 pages this paper discusses how the Lebanese poet expresses love in terms of oneness and harmony in such works as 'Song of the...

Ancient Poems and Love Songs of Egypt and China Compared on Love and Sex Attitudes

war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...

Love in Andrew Marvell's 'The Definition of Love' and in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's 'Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought'

survive, the most poignant works were his love sonnets. Surrey was considered to be quite the ladies man, even though he was marr...

Robert Browning and Aphra Behn's Poems

enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...

Love According to Andrew Marvell and John Donne

In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...

Self Sacrifice in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

In an essay consisting of five pages John Proctor's self sacrifice and the inspiration it represents in love's power to withstand ...

Aphra Behn's Love Poetry of the Renaissance

In five pages this paper analyzes the social commentary featured in allusions to the physical love between women symbolized in Aph...

Love in Toni Morrison's Sula, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, and William Shakespeare's Othello

In six pages this essay considers how heroines love in each of these works which also discusses the social reflections of their ap...

Three Short Stories and the Nature of Love

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

'Canzoniere' by Petrarch

"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...