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Love and Lust

sort of attraction into three categories within the human brain: "1) Lust (the craving for sexual gratification), driven by androg...

Different Types of Love

you care for yourself" (What are three (3) types of Love in the New Testament?). And, still yet, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary st...

The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz

dungeon and as such is nothing more than a simple fun work (The Book of Good Love of Juan Ruiz Archpriest of Hita, 2007). There ar...

Two Greek TextsThucydides' “Athenian Thesis” and the “Unjust Speech” in Aristophanes' The Clouds

by, at least, a millennium. For them, they are merely being "realistic" and that such realism can serve as a basis for a social or...

Aristotle's Definition of a 'Tragic Hero' and the Deviation of William Shakespeare in His Play Othello

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

Aristotelian Tragedy of Oedipus Rex

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...

Love Defined and Described

this paper by describing what love is NOT. For one thing, there is a vast difference between physical desire and love. Physical de...

Creative Writing on First Love

enjoy each others company, happy to but there, not feeling any awkwardness at the absence of words, just feeling contented. Thes...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

of gaining knowledge in a sole purpose of gaining friends. As the book progresses, Charlie goes through dramatic changes mentally,...

Sonnet 138 by William Shakespeare

In four pages this paper examines the symbolism in terms of how a couple's aging love is represented in the sonnet....

Edward Albee's Tragic Play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

tortured marriage. The world of George and Martha is a closed, stagnant environment. It is filled with highly destructive element...

Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving

to what love really is because they approach it from the wrong perspective. They believe that love is something to be found house...

Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and Thucydides on Government, Human Development, and the Soul

In eight pages the philosophies of these great ancient Greek thinkers on these topics are examined with terms including peitho, ag...

Defining The Concept Of Love

time. The extent to which love exists upon myriad levels is both grand and far-reaching; while it is one of mans most basic of em...

Defining 'Unconditional Love'

is especially difficult to define when you are trying to do so for a person who has never experienced it. The dictionary definiti...

Defining Love

In three pages this paper seeks to define the elusive concept of love, which throughout the course of history has meant and repres...

Lystra's "Searching The Heart" - Analysis

in what was historically thought of as a straitlaced society. Lystra (1996) - assistant professor at California State University ...

Psychology of Love v. Hate

a murderer sees the violence that he perpetrates as his only means of salvaging his sense of self, of maintaining his pride (Gilli...

Love Definition and Research

being wholly inferior. Others claim love is for the weak of both mind and spirit, the weak-willed who cannot live their lives alo...

Evil as Defined by 19th Century English Romantic Poet William Blake

abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...

The Idea Of Love Between Nietzsche And Freud

compels one to draw all attention to this one object - to the preclusion of all else, which is most often intrinsically associated...

About Love

tennis match indicating no score goes back to 1742, and comes from the idea of "playing for love, i.e., for nothing" (Harper). The...

The Word “Love”

means English, which is defined as "believe." That in turn comes from the Latin ("L") "lubet" or "libet," meaning "it pleases" whi...

Personal Growth and Love

In five pages this paper describes a personal growth experience that reveals how for one young woman absence can make the heart gr...

How Grief Therapy Can Help When a Loved One has a Terminal Illness

Grief and grief therapy are defined and explored and various stages are explained. There is emphasis on theory and which types of ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound' and William Blake's 'Marriage of Heaven and Hell'

is angry, for he looks out at the activities of the people of the world and does not like what he sees. He implies that we have co...

Overview of Modernism in Literature

In five pages literary modernism is defined and then illustrated in such works as James Joyce's 'The Dead' from Dubliners, 'The G...

Love According to E. Annie Proulx, Sigmund Freud, and William Shakespeare

marriage. So Freud had roughly 1,460 sexually-oppressed days to contemplate the meaning of life and why we humans operate the way...

Courtly Love and 'The Knight's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In a paper consisting of 5 pages courtly love is defined and discussed within the context of 'The Knight's Tale' by Geoffrey Chauc...