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Codependency, Obsessive Love, and Aggression

However, as the treatment industry further studied this condition, larger segments of the population were found to exhibit the sam...

Euthyphro by Plato and the Reactions of David Hume and Immanuel Kant

In six pages this paper discusses how Plato's Euthyphro would be received by Hume and Kant in a consideration of family duty, love...

A Comparison of To Virgins, To Make Much of Time and To His Coy Mistress

Love and death as found in these works by Herrick and Marvell are discussed. Both poets display ideas about time and living in the...

Afterlife in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

In the placement of these lines, Prufrock asks if it is "worth while" to have denied himself the matters, the pleasures, of earth....

Analysis of 'Under Milk Wood' by Dylan Thomas

In three pages this poem is analyzed in its depiction of loving women, the life cycle, death's inevitability, and the loss of inno...

Analysis: Browning and Wordsworth

the Portuguese," the title of which is a veiled reference to her husbands pet nickname for her, inspired by her dark coloring whic...

Forugh Farrokhzad, Iranian Poet

In eight pages this paper examines this much loved Iranian poet in a social consideration of 'Border Walls' provided with the incl...

John Donne's Poetry and Themes of Love and Death

In ten pages John Donne's poetry including 'Valediction Forbidding Mourning,' 'The Sunne Rising,' and 'The Anniversary' are exami...

'Batter My Heart' by John Donne

In five pages this paper compares the expressions of love in John Donne's poem 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' as compared w...

Alice Walker's Crusade Against Female Genital Mutilation

This paper examines the crusade against female genital mutilation. The author cites Alice Walker's book, Anything We Love Can Be ...

Eternal Spring Sculpture by Rodin

In seven pages this paper discusses the love and passion themes represented by this late 19th century sculpture. Twelve sources a...

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Tragic Flaw of Love

love of Othello for Desdemona, while it seemed to hold such optimistic promise in the beginning, was so excessive, it blinded him ...

Novel and Film Versions of The English Patient

physical gestures clearly demonstrate her anguish as she drops her head to the table, leaving the audience only to imagine the pai...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and the Characters Lady Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes

In five pages these characters and their complex love affair are analyzed. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Poetry and Different Romantic Modes of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Lord Byron

In eight pages this research paper discusses the romantic modes featured by Shelley's 'Platonic love,' Keats' 'doctrine of art,' a...

Baudelaire's Dog, Familar vs. Foreign, and E.E. Cummings

being graphic, and sometimes that takes getting used to as well. That same quality of foreign-ness can be applied to the work of ...

Jorge Amado's Gabriela, Clove, and Cinnamon, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera and the Theme of Love

In 5 pages this paper compares and contrasts how each author portrays love in his respective literary works. There are no other s...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient

In 5 pages this novel is analyzed in terms of how love can transcend any boundaries in a consideration of Almasy and Katharine's r...

The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway and the Theme of Love

In five pages this paper examines how the last novel by Ernest Hemingway develops the theme of love in terms of various types and ...

A Look at Bataille's Erotism

tell the difference, but Batailles argument deserves contemplation. In trying to reach human limits in eroticism, one can go too f...

Self Love According to Aristotle

we love ourselves, we fill ourselves with love that we then are able to give away (Is Self-Love Justifiable? 2004). If we do not...

Florida Naturalist and Professor Archie Carr

Carrs literary style has been described as that of a poets by his wife, who put together a book of some of his more inspiring writ...

Love Canal and Hooker Chemical

at using the site for urban expansion. When the city forced the sale of the site through "imminent domain," Hooker added a disclai...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

Content and Meaning of Phaedrus by Plato

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...

Establishing Writing Connections and the Native American Writers Sherman Alexie and N. Scott Momaday

spotted horse grazed on the plain, and there was a dark wildness on the mountains beyond. The land was still and strong. It was ...

Relationships and Love in 'Porphyria's Lover' by Robert Browning and Othello by William Shakespeare

This paper contrasts and compares how relationships and love are thematically represented in Robert Browning's poem and William Sh...

The Symbolism of Rain in Hemmingway's A Farewell to Arms

A 5 page exploration of Hemmingway's utilization of natural elements as symbols for human emotion. The universal themes of sorrow...

'Troilus and Criseyde' by Geoffrey Chaucer and Love

In six pages this paper discusses how each character feels love differently within the context of this poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. ...