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True Love in Symposium by Plato

senate dinner, or basically a drinking party after the meal. Though it is certain that Plato took literary license with the dialog...

Benevolence Concept of Bishop Joseph Butler

of self love being a worthwhile state of being. The modern church teaches that we are not deserving of anything good, and that se...

Making a Difference and Breast Cancer

help each other and empowers them to become their own health care advocates" (Anonymous, 2002), all of which requires the shelter ...

Love of Women Represented in Pre Raphaelite Art

this "a bitter argument" arose "at the Royal Academy, fellow students labeled Millais, Hunt, and anybody else who shared their bel...

John Donne's Seventeenth Century Love Poetry

in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

Summarizing Harold S. Kushner's 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People'

find faith during their times of troubles (Kushner, 1981; Muder, 2002). In the Introduction to the book "Why I Wrote This Book" K...

Raymond Carver's Perspectives on Family

who are very young and very old and this paradigm really only involves an individuals life for an eighteen year time span. For exa...

Love and Marriage Disappointments

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

Love, Life, and Humor in The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer

In six pages this report considers the characters, their relationships, and how they are portrayed humorously and satirically by C...

Love According to Socrates in Symposium by Plato

that love is beautiful and love is a god by showing them the true nature of love and the use love can be to humankind....

Comparing T.S. Eliot and William Shakespeare

accompanied by his son, Ferdinand, the heir to his throne; Antonio, the Duke of Milan; Sebastian, the brother of Alonzo; and Gonza...

Analyzing the Novel Love in the Time of Cholera

characters live lives of extremes, and the magic which pervades their lives eludes to the surreal nature of the story. The Use o...

Medieval Concepts of Love, Sex, Marriage, and The Bible

This could be seen, for example, in the practices of the ancient Egyptians, whose culture remained stable for a long period of tim...

NY Television and Cultural Messages

wanted to visit. Perhaps the episode that most prominently features differences in race and ethnicity is when Jerry convinces the ...

'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot and Frederik L. Rusch's Critique of the Poem

the street, / Rubbing its back upon the window-panes; / There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the fac...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet and the Themes of Love and Madness

Two beings created for each other feel mutual love at the first glance; every consideration disappears before the irresistible imp...

Laura Sonnets by Petrarch

most tragic play" (line 8). Furthermore, he attests that this love is his "constant gate and fountain" of grief" (line 12). This ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, and Themes of Lovers and Love

by his friend Lieutenant Rinaldi who is determined to arrange for the two of them to meet up with some British nurses. At this poi...

Emily Dickinson's Private Affairs and Their Influence on Her Poetry

born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...

Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...

Love of Othello Used by Iago

from the beginning of the play, leaving no doubt that Iago is a conniving and deceitful individual (Anonymous Iago the Liar Othell...

Historical Views and Times Represented in the Writings of Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and T.S. Eliot

to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...

Jealousy and Love in William Shakespeare's Othello

to why Iago hates Othello to such a degree. Presumably, Iago is angry over being passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio. The...

Literature and Sex

authors life, itself. What has he or she experienced in his/her lifetime that has contributed to this unique perception and turn o...

Thematic Analysis of ' A Red, Red Rose' by Robert Burns

very difficult emotion to describe or explain. This is why Burns used the elements of nature in order to detail what love was, wha...

Cleopatra and Antony's Love Affair

seems so much more believable. Their initial dialogue of "If it be love, indeed, tell me how much." and, "Then must thou needs fin...

Love in Phaedra by Jean Racine

the love she has inside of her will consume her as long as she is living. Feeling much the same way that Aphrodite has felt, rej...

Minorities and Dysfunction from 2 Perspectives

river that had gained religious significance in the life of the tribe. As this indicates, while Shkilnyk does not put her theme in...

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...