Infatuation, lust and other feelings of desire are often misinterpreted with love. ... How do we really know that we are in fact in love rather than just feeling infatuation? ... Infatuation, on the other hand, is longing for that person for a period of time. ... Infatuation is more of a sexual need rather than emotional. ... When, for example, a man loves a woman and the woman simply plays with his heart, than that I define as a crush from the man. ...

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Towards the end of his quest at Araby, he discovers the difference between his dream world and actuality, sending him a crushing blow of reality. ... A good part of the story deals with the boy's infatuation with Mangan's sister. ... His false love for the girl has taken over reality. ... The boy has withdrawn from reality and is under a spell of infatuation that says no mind to anything but his fixation on the girl. ... At the bazaar, love is represented as an empty, passing flirtation. ...

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Araby James Joyce's "Araby," is about the deep infatuation of a teenage boy for his friend's sister, and how poverty and anguish taint even the purest childhood dream. ... The boy obviously has a crush on her and somehow perceives it as love. ... In such an atmosphere of "blindness" the aunt and uncle are not aware of the boy's anguish, the girl not conscious of the boy's "love" for her , and the boy himself is blinded from the true nature of his love. ...

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This is how he lets the reader know his feelings, either it be love, guilt, or death. ... In many ways, he describes her as, the love of his life. This was no "crush or childhood infatuation,"(228,4) as he put it, but "as deep and rich as love could ever get,"(228,4) like the complexities of mature adult love, and maybe more. In the same way he depicts his love for Linda, he portrays his guilt in the same situation. ... Too feel that one loves someone so much, but can't tell him or her. ...

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It examines how a boy's infatuation with a girl is shattered when he sees what she is really like. ... The main plot involves how a young boy overcomes a crush on his friend's sister. ... Joyce's usage of the methods of fictional writing in the story of "Araby" makes it easier to interpret a young boy's blind love. ...

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Love has the power to give life, and also the power to take it away. ... With it, he express, in elegant detail, Romeo's desperate infatuation with Rosaline. ... This positions readers to sympathise with Romeo and to dislike Rosaline, who crushes Romeo's sensitive heart, shirking his passionate emotions. ... The Friar also displays instances of familial love. ... Courtly love is shown between Paris and Juliet, and it seems to be another form of unrequited love, on Paris' part. ...

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Nevertheless, this story is also one of love: from maternal love, to a wife's love and devotion to her estranged husband. ... This suitor, Armand Aubigny was racist, but Desiree had fallen in love with him and looked past this flaw in his character. The concept of young Armand falling instantly in love after seeing Desiree standing by the gate is a bit suspicious and sounds more like infatuation, which foreshadowed tribulations to come. ... He ignored his Desiree and the baby for months, and during this time Desiree still proclaimed her love for Armand, even if he didn't love her...

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The "tall young man, who carried a gun," (530), or the hunter is the love of Sylvia, but in a way he is only using her for his advantage. ... She had a huge crush on the hunter, or as she said she, "loves him as a dog loves!" ... Thus in the end the choice she makes to save the bird's life, actually ends her infatuation with the man. ... She could end up heart broken, because in her eye she loves the hunter. ...

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It has meaning to all that have lost the love, or never actually felt the warmth of true love in a lifetime. ... The winter conveys the fall love as a paper moon. ... The hope is over desire, any minute it could break & fall crushing the relationship, the hope, the chance that love will be reached. ... "Without your love, It's a honkey tonk perade, Without your love, It's a melody played a penny arcade." ... She tried simply to give up, but her love and infatuation for the affection dwarfs her perception of reality. ...

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He develops an infatuation with a girl known as Mangan's sister, to whom he promises to bring back something from the Araby Bazaar. Here he is a young, innocent boy who has a crush on a girl. ... Joyce uses a theme of love throughout the story to display the Boy's psychological conflict. ... O love!' ... All of these situations and events tie into the theme of love in this story, but they also display the conflict the Boy is experiencing. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She "hoped love would rescue her- and then hoped for "nothing at a! ll in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed- (117; ch.11). ... Doc Homer's infatuation! ... His obsession with orthopedic shoes doesn't represent his infatuation with un-fallen arches, but reflects the intent for his girls to develop flawlessly. ... Barred from crushing Hallie's spirits and erasing her dreams were the loss of her mother and her eccentric home life. ...

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One of the greatest British critics William Somerset Mugham said that: "I do not know another novel which has the same descriptions of pain, infatuation, cruelty and insistence of love." ... But Hindley was jealous of his father's love for Heathcliff. ... What remained in the endurance is that ------ revenge and love. ... Catherine deserted her instinctive love, her natural love and her wild love. ... From this, the tragedy of Heathcliff's love sprouted since he ignored the concept of social status and fell in love with Catherine. ...

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This shows that while the Dream can offer purpose, failure to achieve it can cause dangerously crushing disappointment. ... Willy's materialistic infatuation causes him appear delusional, he has not realised that his world is crumbling around him; he has lost his job and turns down work, because he wants to work on achieving the American Dream. ... He parades his house and possessions in front of Daisy. " I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Claude takes a liking to the soldier because he can relate to the way the soldier walks around in the story in pain, with love in the back of his mind and woman trouble over his head. ... This scene becomes very outlandish from the reader's standpoint because Claude's infatuation with the couple turns from curiosity to voyeuristic. ...

• Word Count: 5298
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School