What is love, why does it sometimes grow, and why does it sometimes die; these are questions often asked by humans today. ... But the desire to love and the desire to be loved contain different elements for different people. ... We desire permanence, especially when we desire to be happy. ... Confidence to be the friend of our partner growth then the relationship will prosper and it will not die. ... Love has a chance to endure or to die. ...

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Both females encounter unwanted marriages,but are able to follow their true desires to be free. ... Victors and Victoria`s desire to be with one another had finally come true. ... He coincidentally grabs the cup of poison at the alter, drinking it thinking it was wine and dies immediately. ... She follows her hearts desire and decides to wait on getting married. ... When Lord Barkus finally dies a blue butterfly flies by beside Victoria and Victor as well as when Alice is beginning her new adventure and going with her desires to explore the world the blue butterfly passes beside her symb...

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Almost every character possessed a unique power that led way for much desire. ... Here we will take a look at the authoritative aspects along with the powers of perception and desire. ... Power of infatuation and romantic desire is a third form of power used in Shakespeare's play. ... The power she possesses will drive her to any length: "So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will my virgin patent up Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke My soul consents not to give sovereignty" (1:1 80-84). ... But you cannot deny their love, even though they are listening ...

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The young mother would die just a week after giving birth (James). ... As Doctor Sloper is dying he ask of one thing from Catherine. ... The two lovers desire a future together that requires Doctor Sloper's blessing. ... She did not get to fill her desire for marriage or motherhood but she used her moral strength. ... Morris Townsend failed in his drive to marry a woman with an income to finance his every desire (Huntley). ...

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Everyone that died in the movie was either thrown or fell from the top of a building. ... Modleski explains, " Judy is the "original" woman, who will soon be remade (for the second time) into the fully fetishized and idealized, "constructed" object of male desire and male "design"."... Modleski has come to the conclusion that " Vertigo, like all narrative films, is "cut to the measure of male desire" because it is from the male point of view- (Modleski, 87). ... As is seen in the movie, the police officer in the beginning dies, Madeleine dies, Judy dies and Scottie dreams of his death. ...

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He realizes that he has never truly distinguished the difference between his love and his desire for Gretta. ... In Joyce's The Dead, Gabriel Conroy is depicted as a wealthy, well educated, and a married man, however, he finds himself paralyzed by his lifeless existence due to his lack of intimacy and truth, but fueled only by desire. ... As Gabriel watches her, he is depicted as overwhelmed with desire for his wife. ... This desire is central to the theme of paralysis that Joyce wants to get across to the reader, but not clear until Gretta unveils the story of Michael Furey, the boy who ...

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A lover desires his beloved to be happy, and her happiness brings satisfaction and happiness to him. ... Those who are in love with one another feel an indescribable desire to consume and be consumed by each others' essences -- to become a single being. ... Unrequited love is not true love because their is no reciprocation by the desired individual, yet it is not infatuation because it has risen beyond the superficial elements of attraction -- it is, in fact, love, but it is incomplete because there is only one side to it. ... That is not to say the love can never die, for it can. ... ...

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It's true that even in Forster's vision, there is evidence that emotion and a desire for relationships escapes the grip of the Machine. ... As a result, people live most of their lives alone in their individual cells - they no longer use technology to go out and seek what they desire; with the machine, what they desire is brought to them. ...

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Hamlet Hamlet is a young man who's father dies and his life is turned upside down. ... Hamlet expressed his desire to commit suicide in his soliloquy. ... If he dies he will end all the negative things in his life. ... Hamlet is only loyal to revenge and until he has completed this task he cannot die. ... If hamlet did not have to avenge his father murder he would have killed himself after he found out Ophelia died. ...

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Despite those desires Janie can't move forward because "the memory of Nanny was still powerful and strong" (Hurston 50). ... All she got from Jody was money, but that was really not what she desired. Towards the end of their marriage, while Jody is dying, she rediscovers her voice, and this time its here to stay. ... Jody dies, and instead of crying Janie rips off her head-rag, symbolically freeing her imprisoned hair, but more importantly freeing herself. ... Although Tea Cakes ends up dying and Janie doesn't get her happily ever after, as she had always hoped f...

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Catherine's desire for attention is never fulfilled so she views life as hell and death as heaven. ... Catherine gets all the attention she desires and this makes death heaven for Catherine. ... Because during her life, Catherine does not receive complete attention from everyone as she selfishly desires, life for Catherine is hell. Catherine lives in hell until she is finally at peace in heaven, when she dies. ...

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It is surprising to me that Aristotle never mentions that the main factor in all friendships is the desire each friend has for the good of the other. ... Aristotle says that a virtuous person loves himself more than any other person loves himself, but that he also loves his friend for his own sake, and that the virtuous person, because he wants to achieve happiness, is willing to die for his friend. I think that Crito, in loving his friend Socrates, he would die for him, meaning he was truly a virtuous person, on the other hand a virtuous person is a person who has excellent functi...

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The cycle of appetite is the process of desire for immediate gratification. ... Mitch had been searching for meaning since his uncle died. ... He had died a slow, painful death from pancreatic cancer, and watching him die had made Mitch feel helpless. ... Perish obviously means to die, as in the case of Morrie. ... Morrie died, so that Mitch could live. ...

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Everlasting Love True love is defined as a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair, the emotion of sex and romance. ... Haemon is so in love with Antigone that he threatens to die with her. ... Haemon knows that if Antigone does die that Creon will not rule Thebes for too much longer. ... They are so happy to see each other that they would be content at dying at that very moment. ... /No way but this, killing myself, /to die upon a kiss" (359-60). ...

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At the end of the play, Goneril fears the consequences of her disgusting actions; after the success of a final scheme, she stabs herself and dies. ... When Cornwall dies, she too approaches Edmund to become her partner, sending a letter and token of affection. ... Regan's wicked desire to rule all shows that she is a character of greed, lust and jealousy. ... Near the end of the play, Goneril and Regan spar over the man they both desire. ...

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The Sonnet defines an old man in a relationship with a younger lady who is dying and how much he loves her. ... The narrator desires stand upon accomplishing the description of the aging man with imagery while at the same time demonstrating how little time is left in his romantic love story. ... The plot is defined under the subject of explicit where we know he's dying and that he's leaving. ... She loves him more because he is dying and time is running out. ... "That time of year" is relating to the stage in his life where he is growing old and about to die. ...

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Humbert's excessive desire for possessing the child is too strong for the weak restraints of morality. ... " There is a relationship between HumbertHumbert's desire for nymphets and his artistic gifts. ... While HumbertHumbert is obsessed with Lolita in such a way of art, with passion and desire, Frederick is to be obsessed with Miranda in such a way that can be seen as obsessive-compulsive disorder. ...

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But what she becomes engrossed in is a soulless love as a sluggish wife, as her marriage lacked all intensity and passion she had desired. ... In Victorian society women were looked as being devoid of passions or desires. It was a society where expressing one's sexual desires were regarded as a sin and social crime. ... Also in the poem "A Triad" one of the three girls who was referred to as famished and who eventually died can be implied to the harsh realities of the society as against her expectations from it or from a relation. ... It reflects the same image how women were ...

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Soon after, the Gods noticed that these creatures began to die of self-neglect and hunger for they did nothing else but strive for this hopeless unification. ... Once their desire for unification had been thus fulfilled, these beings could then go about their business and be able to once more be productive, thrive, and multiply so as to better please the Gods. ... Aristophanes characterizes love as the joy one derives from merely being with ones other half "And so when a person meets the other half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then some...

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His hope was shaped by love; aspirations of achieving his desires of earning one girl's affection. ... It is vital to mention that his whole purpose for partaking in illegal activities was not for the blatantly obvious and common desire to simply have wealth. ... In a hopelessly romantic act of desire, he would reach his arms towards the green light that shone on her house's dock. ... He died attempting to taste euphoria. ...

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Moreover, to cater for a 'modern' audience at the time, the film tackled the issue of 'gender' by capturing a woman's desire to act on stage in the Elizabethan era and the frustrating journey she experienced due to the societal confines of her gender. ... According to Dusinberre (2012): "The history of women in Shakespeare's period has largely been written by men within a discourse- often man-made and shaped by men's anxieties, desires and interests". ... As seen within the film Shakespeare in Love, Viola took the notion of male oppression to an ...

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Immortality of Plato's Love Though Plato died nearly 2500 years ago, the English language still keeps his definition of love in common usage. ... The progression from the initial definition of a lover as a concrete individual who wants the good forever to the definition of love as an abstract "desire to have the good forever" (206a) sets up a similar progression from a concrete function of love to an abstract function which is at the core of Platonic love. ... This implies the existence of conceptual children as well as physical ones, and Diotima gives an example of the former by noti...

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Oh God, please don't let her die. I'll do anything for you if you won't let her die You took the baby but don't let her die. That was alright but don't let her Mirabelli 3 die. Please, please, please dear God, don't let her die- (330). ... Catherine dies from her birth labor. ...

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This kind of love derives its intensity from unfulfilled desire. ... Hindley loved his wife Fances, but she dies at a young age. ... And the last lines reflect the inexorably end of this story: both lovers could only be together in death, which is the desired end from the protagonists for most of the romantic love tragedies. ... When she dies, the only Heathcliff obsession is revenge, maybe to palliate his sorrow. ...

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She forces herself to believe that Milkman desires all the things she is not and dies with this notion. ... Hagar's inability to define herself allows Milkman's shallowness and contrasting desires to take advantage of her inherent weakness and inevitably decide Hagar's fate for her. ...

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