"Romantic love causes more pain than joy." ... Even though many effects of Romantic and True love are the same, feelings and the reasons which cause the effects to take place, are what differentiate Romantic and True love. ... Both will cause joy, but only Romantic love will cause pain. ... When a person is in Romantic love, there is passion, mystery, and integrity. ... Romantic love seems flawed, while True love is perfect. ...

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Romantic Love Society has conditioned the population to believe that marriage is an event that is synonymous with romantic love. ... Romantic love possesses strength greater than many other emotions. ...

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Picnic is a great way for me to spend a lazy romantic sun soaking day with my significant other. This is a romantic time for lovers to share special moments, fall in love, and renew commitments. ... There are a vast amount of possible picnic locations, but I love to have a romantic picnic along the beach. I believe the most romantic place in the entire world is on a beach. ... This is so we can easily feed each other and have a quick and easy clean up, leaving time for those more romantic moments. ...

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In The Quiet American, Fowler calls Pyle romantic. Being a romantic, it is his emotion, which drives him to act, not his reason. ... In these ways, Pyle is very romantic. ... His emotions are so strong and because chooses a romantic stance, he dies. Being a romantic, Pyle has allowed his emotion to overcome his reason. ...

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In The Quiet American, Fowler calls Pyle romantic. Being a romantic, it is his emotion, which drives him to act, not his reason. ... In these ways, Pyle is very romantic. ... His emotions are so strong and because chooses a romantic stance, he dies. Being a romantic, Pyle has allowed his emotion to overcome his reason. ...

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When I was assigned this topic to write about, I immediately thought of Eros. The ancient Greek word that describes the romantic side of love. Philos and Agape are really more spiritual in nature, but Eros, now that's a physical love. I envision Eros as the sweaty fumbling in the back of old Chevrol...

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The Romantic Hero Duncan Heyward is a major in the English army whose mission is to guard the daughters of his superior. Duncan is a well-meaning youth who prizes the maidens, especially Alice, but he is completely unprepared to deal with the treachery of the wilderness. He is a white man trying to...

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However, the author has also created the voice of "William Goldman,"" which acts as a frame narrative around "Morgenstern's- romantic storyline. ... This device allows Goldman to further amuse himself (and us) in his mockery of the romantic tradition. ... She also doesn't appear to be as intelligent or noble as one would expect of a heroine in the romantic tradition. For instance, early in the story, she chooses life and riches over the more romantic alternative of death and loyalty (p.77). ... The frame narrative therefore rebels against the romantic tradition by breaking the f...

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In "Araby," James Joyce explores a theme of romantic disillusion. ... Joyce develops his theme of romantic disillusion through a young boy who is innocent, idealistic, and disenchanted. ... At that moment, the boy enters an ideal romantic relationship with the girl, although it only exists in his mind. ... The romantic journey he had been experiencing had been lonely and an extremely one-sided affair. ... As the lights go out at the bazaar so does the light of his romantic relationship with Mangan's sister. ...

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An entertaining film which I believe would fall under the genre of historical drama with a romantic twist. ... How romantic I found that to be. ... (Wood, mouthshut.com) Others commented on the romance stating, "Unfortunately the romantic elements in Wallace's screenplay seem contrived and way too pat." ... "Pearl Harbor" is definitely a historical drama, the romantic twist just the genre I was looking for. ...

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In the Psychology of Romantic Love, a book written by psychiatrist Nathaniel Branden, these questions are answered in full detail. ... "They are not representative of romantic love, and it amounts to setting up a straw man to treat them as they were." ... It is commonly argued that romantic lovers manifest a strong tendency to idealize or glamorize their partners, to misperceive them. ... Of the various factors that are important in a successful romantic love, none is more vital than self-esteem. ... It is evident that self-conception plays a major role in romantic love. ...

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Hannah begins as an anti-romantic, no-nonsense girl dedicated to finding out the identity of the Sidley hermit, and ends up not only completing this goal, but also realizing that emotion and reason must exist together. ... This feeling is conveyed by a speech Hannah makes to Bernard in which she uses the garden as an example of the decline from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period. ... It is in this moment that the tensions between the Romantic viewpoint and the Classical viewpoint are resolved. ... Hannah is so stubborn and anti-romantic but when she accepts the offer to dance, she final...

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Originating with kinship love, Juliet evolves in the presence of Romeo and develops a romantic, true love. ... Romantic love is the idea of being in "love with the idea of love". This romantic love is first experienced by Romeo as he mopes over Rosaline at the beginning of the play. ... Another character who experiences romantic love is Paris. ... Even when she is supposedly dead he still carries on in a formal and "romantic" manner. ...

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Some elements would place this kind of love within romantic tradition, like the intense involvement with nature, some mystical references, the wish of death from the lovers, and the most important: the longing for a soul unity with the beloved. ... But in this novel we find another kind of romantic love' in the sense that for romantics Love passion involves suffering, mostly because this romantic love can't be fulfilled, as it happens to the protagonists in the novel; Catherine and Heathcliff cannot find a way to be together except in the grave. ... Here, this ideal of romantic lo...

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The Romantic Journey really consists of two journeys. ... The second part of the Romantic Journey is psychological. ... From the Romantic view, society was brainwashing her and forcing her to conform. ... This marked the beginning of her internal Romantic Journey. ... The next few stops on Edna's Romantic Journey are major milestones. ...

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Some of us don't feel romantic love and are fine with platonic love. ... Others of us express our romantic feelings through our actions, thoughts, and interactions with others. ... As has been demonstrated above, both platonic and romantic love are very similar and platonic should not be considered inferior, as it often is. ... We must also understand that not all of us really need and/or want romantic love, and that's ok. ...

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For instance, Algernon says to Jack, "I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal Then the excitement is all over. ...

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Different types of love are represented with Shakespeare's impeccable use of the English language, and through the use of figurative language, characterization and the Petrarchan convention, the subjects of unrequited, romantic, familial and courtly love are explored. ... In addition to idealistic, lovestruck romance, readers are presented with the tragedy that romantic love can cause. ... This use of such a tragic flaw of violent passion and irrationality positions readers to view romantic love as a potentially fatal emotion. ... This gives Paris false hope and satisfaction that Juliet ...

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He was never a fan of the romantic era of writing that took place before him, but instead was the leading writer of literary realism in America. ... In many romantic stories he would have come back a year later, a hero, with a medal complimenting his bravery. ... Had it been a romantic tale it might have said that he died defending the base, letting all the other troops get out alive, sacrificing himself. ... When one is finished reading the story, it is evident that Howells is criticizing the romantic ways and is showing great enthusiasm in realism. ... Hopefully, with the evidence that h...

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William Shakespeare defines love in different ways in his writing as either being romantic love, lust, or mature love. ... "Romeo and Juliet" is a play written by William Shakespeare, which has a romantic love, but however, ends as a tragedy. ...

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I. Background of Study Contemporary English literature has produced a plethora of novels dealing with the everyday lives of people within the context of their place of origin and their unique culture. The United Kingdom is currently seeing the rise of potential cult classics such as Trainspotting...

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Romantic Love In Dante's Inferno and The Lais of Marie De France It is fascinating to take the time out to examine in similarities and differences in the way authors Dante Aligheri and Marie De France impart to their readers their views on romantic love. ... Dante uses symbolism, characters and literary illustration, to impart his central message that the ultimate form of betrayal which stems from "love" (or, to the author, misguided romantic notion) is adultery. ... Some feel that the poet implies inherent dangers in reading "inflammatory"(romantic) literature, as such a lo...

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Love is said to be a bond between romantic couples. ... If indeed, the ability to love is in our genes than all humans without the appropriate genetic defect will have the ability to love romantically. ...

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" Passion is defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary has "a strong sexual or romantic feeling for someone.... If there is intimacy and passion in a relationship Sternberg consider that "Romantic Love". ... " Infatuated love can turn into romantic love if the couple decide to be intimate with each other and build a trust by opening up about personal things. ...

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This is true romantic love. ... Friendship love is one of greater complexity even than of romantic love. ... Romantic love provides us with our most powerful form of intimacy, a sense of self, and an aura of grandeur that must be understood in its own terms, as an emotional strategy for enriching our world (Solomon 141). ...

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