Lust: an intense or unrestrained sexual craving. Love: to have intense feelings of tender affection and compassion for another. On paper, anyone can see the difference between love and lust, but when it comes to your mind and body, many people, especially young women, get the difference between these two, seemingly harmless words, jumbled up. So many young women go searching for what they believe to be love, and what they find, is sex. They search in many different places, with many different guys, but eventually they will come to realize that sex doesn't mean love, all they've found is lust. And once they have made this realization, it is not always easy for them to stop, and because of this many lose something very important to them along the way. "Lust," a short story by Susan Minot, shows just that, some young women hold a strong misconception of what love is and how to find it, and this error can lead to one truly poignant outcome.
In this story, the narrator, who is away at boarding school, is describing all of the different guys she has been with. At first, it seems like she is bragging, but every once in a while she slips in comments like " The second a boy put his arm around me, I forgot about wanting to do anything else, which felt like a relief at first until it became like sinking into a muck (306)." This, and other comments like, "You make out the dim shape of windows and feel yourself become a cave, filled absolutely with air, or with a sadness that just wouldn't stop (306)" show that there are feelings there of regret and sadness, of which, the narrator isn't totally willing to admit to herself. She obviously feels good about what she is doing at first, but after it's done and she realizes that the guy doesn't love her anymore than he did before they had sex, she feels sad and ashamed. You may ask, if she feels this way afterwards, then why does she continue this behavior? Its simple really, she is in search of love, and until she finds it she won't quit.
Susan Minot's Lust The short story Lust by Susan Minot deals with the ongoing sexual encounters that a girl has with numerous men, with her describing the tendencies of each guy and how he approaches her. ... As stated earlier, the plot of Lust is basically a list of sexual activities involving the narrator. ...
Lust Rather Than Reason The short story "A&P", by John Updike, proves that it is human nature for lust to greatly influence one's actions. ... Lust has the ability to cause great distraction. ... In life, us humans base decisions upon lust constantly. It takes a very wise person to be aware of his or her feelings of lust. ... When urges such as lust take over, the consequences can be dire. ...
He uses metaphors several times throughout the play as a way to show the love as lust theme. ... More instances of love as lust comes in the next scene, this time through personification. ... Her beauty is what comes to Romeo's mind first because he is not in love with Rosaline; he has simply been lusting after her all this time. ... Heroic couplets are used often to display figurative language and themes in the play, and the theme of love as lust is no exception. ... The Friar, instantly realizing that Romeo is in lust with Juliet rather than true love, tells him lusting will never brin...
Lust is the desire for the body. ... In William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, love seems to be demonstrated but the power of lust takes over. The protagonists named Romeo and Juliet who seem to be in love but in reality, they are misled by lust. ... Romeo and Juliet was not in love, their relationship was based on physical attraction and lust. ... This shows that their relationship is built on physical attraction and lust, not love. ...
What is lust? Lust is "a strong feeling of sexual desire", or "a strong desire for something" ("Lust.... The short story "Lust" was created by American Novelist and Short Story writer Susan Minot and published as a part of her book Lust & Other Stories in 1989 (Feed Your Need To Read. 1; Wikipedia. 1). "Lust" is a literary work which is written in a first person narration. ... She portrays lust as being selfish, and opposed to love. ...
In both stories, "A&P" by John Updike, and "Lust" by Susan Minot, the main characters are experiencing conflicted but transitional periods in their lives. ... In contrast, the narrator in "Lust", also the main character, has a clashing personality of insecure, depressed, and illogical traits. ... On contrast with Sammy's content personality, the narrator from "Lust" differs in a sense that is almost an extreme opposite. ... Unlike Sammy, the narrator in "Lust" doesn't make decisions based upon a reasonable or valid motive. ... The narrator in "Lust" had trouble saying "no" to certai...
Between the crosshairs of love and lust, lies a fuzzy area in which many people often get lost. ... In this paper I will be discussing the difference between love and lust as well as how this conflict comes into play in the short stories, Carnal Knowledge, Lust, and The Girls In Their Summer Dresses. ... Michael on the other hand looks at all women with lust, including his wife. ... He also lightly lusts after each feminine morsel as one would lust over fine cakes in an Italian bakery. ... The conflict between love and lust is an age-old issue. ...
In the film adaptation of Lust Caution, there is both intertextuality as interpretation and dissemination. ... For instance, in Lust Caution, Ang Lee has to use his own knowledge to build the setting and the characters of the story. ... Eileen Changs Lust Caution is a short novel that does not include many conversation or very detailed descriptions. ... Besides, there is a change of points of view that makes the movie of Lust Caution much different from the original text. ... Therefore, dissemination is a better trope for describing the intertextual relationship between Elieen Changs Lust Caut...
There is a Thin Line Between Love and Lust In Shakespeare's sonnets the idea of love is a frequent topic. ... Yet the poet turns the flattering to lust when the compliments are more gratifying for his sexual desire than any love that may be present. ... For this sonnet to be proceeding, the lust must have began in sonnet 128. ... In discovering that sonnet 128 is written about a mistress the concept of lust overpowers the concept of love. In this case Shakespeare is distorting the line between love and lust. ...
