Chivalry is a code of romantic love practiced in the European Middle Ages. This was an odd combination of economic and emotional practice for the knights or vassals. The knight was supposed to serve the lady, who was the wife of their employer if her husband was away on military escapades or on Crus...
The Tempress sang that love between a boy and a girl can be so wonderful. This statement does little to define what love is except that it can be wonderful. This brings to my attention that most people do not know really what love is. The formal definition of love is an intense feeling of deep affec...
Othello is a play written by William Shakespeare which is a tale of love, jealousy, gullibility, evil and betrayal. Othello is a noble Moor, and even though he is not well respected as a person because of his dark skin and foreign roots, he is a well respected general. We can see that he is not w...
"The Things They Carried," by Tim O"Brien is a story about a group of soldiers marching through Vietnam during the war. It describes the men and the things that each of them carries. These soldiers carry both tangible and intangible items, which depends on each soldier individually. They carry th...
Through out the course of English literature, there have been numerous works on love. The word love tends to portray a image of happiness and joy, but in many plays and novels it is the complete opposite. Instead love is often shown in its tragic form, resulting in the death of one or more character...
It was night. A long lasting night, when after having a quarrel with my family members I was told to read Charlie Chaplin's letter to his daughter. I was very angry and I even thought that no one understood me. I did not take it seriously and I thought that reading that letter wouldn't change any...
The Manifestations of Love In the article "The Manifestations of Love" the main theme is trying to explain the idea of love. Through a series of attempts to describe everything that is encompassed in the theory of love the author realizes that there are not words in any language that could desc...
"Hell-Heaven," by Jhumpa Lahiri is about the experiences and struggles of Bengali immigrants living in America. The narrator of the story is a young Bengali girl who lives with her parents who have moved to America to pursue better opportunities and she is reflecting on her childhood of how her moth...
What is love, why does it sometimes grow, and why does it sometimes die; these are questions often asked by humans today. In the Psychology of Romantic Love, a book written by psychiatrist Nathaniel Branden, these questions are answered in full detail. There were many topics in this book that inte...
Realities of Motherhood: Levels of Love and Fear in "The Bean Trees" It has been said that he who fears not gives advantage to danger. No matter what kind of fear it is-even the anxiety that is so deeply engraved into parental DNA- fears weakens the mind and the body. In Barbara Kingsolver's The Bea...
Through out the course of English literature, there have been numerous works on love. The word love tends to portray a image of happiness and joy, but in many plays and novels it is the complete opposite. Instead love is often shown in its tragic form, resulting in the death of one or more character...
"Tar Baby," by Toni Morrison, manages numerous issues and subjects. However the focal point of the novel is the contention between its fundamental characters Jadine and Son. Really, the author has figured out how to portray an incomprehensible circumstance when two persons adore one another, or they...
In a world far from perfection, love is argued to be the closest thing mankind has to magic. However, throughout Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the positive nature of this intense affection is challenged. Morrison explores the detrimental effects of a lack of mutuality when it comes to love. For s...
The Problem of Hamlet In Shakespeare's timeless tale of Hamlet, Hamlet is described as having very many problems. Could there be one definite problem that is the explanation for all of his others? Hamlet's Oedipus Complex towards his mother linked with his profound feelings of melancholia are the...
INTRODUCTION In his book "Love of Enemies" William Klassen examines the various interpretations of love of enemies in relation to war and peace in the Jewish and Christian faiths. Klassen has three distinct concerns that make an influence on his views on peace. First, Klassen feel...
Born into a middle class mining family, D.H Lawrence grew up in the environment that was surrounded and supported by the coalmines. His father was a coal miner in the nearby mine. His mother was a schoolteacher that had retired when she started having a family. The family that Lawrence grew up in was not extremely poor, but they could have been financially better while he was growing up. Lawrence got his first job at fourteen when he went to work for a medical supply company (Worthen 182). ...
Jane Eyre is by far the best known of Charlotte Bronte's novels. The story is interesting and impressive because the heroine's personal character is quite different from the common run. In other novels, the heroines are always beautiful or powerful or rich, but Jane Eyre is only a short, penniless and plain woman. Once you read the novel, you can not forget Jane's strong personal character. Her bravery, persistence, self-respect and confidence run through the book. ...
In 1991, a young man by the name of Ville Hermanni Valo decided to form a band. At the time he was working in his Father's sex shop located in a small suburb in Finland and decided that he needed to do something more creative with his life. He made a few demos with himself playing the guitar parts on a six string bass, with help from a friend, Mige, playing the bass parts, and random friends playing on the drums. After one show the band went their separate ways. Four years later Ville met back up with Mige to form another band. ...
