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Love in Baldwin?s "Another Country", 2001.
Analyzes whether it is appropriate to identify as utopian certain aspects of James Baldwin's "Another Country".
2,840 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 84.95
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This paper analyzes the problem of utopianism and love by examining references to love in the novel, noting the different contexts in which the word is found and consequently its different meanings. The paper also looks at the figure of Rufus, analyzing how his representation changes throughout the novel, and looks at references to ?another country? as a space of possibility. Finally, it examines the use of tone and language, looking at the ways in which these elements further elucidate the tensions and themes of the novel.
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"Furthermore, the language is a language of survival. The saxophonist is described as being ?in the rags of his twenty-odd years?. The saxophonist is dressed in his people?s history. Its suffering is written over him and through him; clothes him in contempt and pride. Rags are what remain of his clothing, implying not only psychological but physical suffering. Torn garments are not just representative of the collective psychological suffering of a people, but are the evidence of a very real, physical survival, of both the black and white worlds. And it is perhaps hard to say which is the source of greater suffering for the resident of 1960s? Harlem/New York."
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?Another Country?, 2002.
Examines sexuality, discord and love in James Baldwin?s novel, "Another Country".
2,362 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 72.95
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James Baldwin is most well known for his ability to blend the ideas of sexuality and race and place them in a contemporary context. One of the best examples of his ability is the novel, "Another Country". This paper describes how Baldwin illustrates the New York City underworld and the relationships between its members. Most importantly, it shows how Baldwin addresses the idea of bisexuality, both literally and metaphorically. He uses the suicide death of a character to explore the personalities of those close to the individual.
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"While Baldwin addresses many issues, often intertwining them, his focus is on sexuality. The most vivid parts of the book deal with sex. He describes a scene involving Vivaldo and Ida, ?He put his hands on her breasts, which were heavy and wide apart with reddish-brown nipples. Her large shoulders quivered a little, a pulse beat in her neck. She watched him with a face at once troubled and detached, calm, and at the same time, frightened? (174). Baldwin points out the sexual tension between the two. The sexual contact has brought them pleasure, but also apprehension. It is as if there is something forbidden about what they are doing, or as if their conscious is telling them not to. Baldwin is careful to always emphasize that sex has consequences?if not physically, then mentally. It is not something that happens, and is instantly forgotten about."
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Love's Dimensions-Psychology of Love, 2001.
Presents the different stages and characteristics of love, and gives psychological details of each.
1,201 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 5 sources, $ 41.95
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This paper looks at recent studies that have been able to unravel several mysteries about the components, phases, and duration of love. The paper shows that each component of each stage and phase of love, when properly applied in comparison to a real-life relationship, can help to predict the duration of a relationship, as well as allows lovers to realize and fix any problems in their relationship.
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"The least important component in this stage is C. Persons in this stage are subject to a wave of new and intense emotions, both of general and sexual physiological activation. They also experience a gradually satisfied desire to establish a special affective bond with the other."
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Sex and Love in "She Being Brand" and "Sex Without Love", 2001.
Compares the two poems for style, themes, and use of language.
1,460 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 4 sources, $ 48.95
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This paper looks at the combination of sex and art, looking at two poems where the poets have made an attempt to work out where sex and love connect. The erotica of Sharon Olds' poem "Sex Without Love" is explored, as well as E.E. Cummings' sensual poem "She Being Brand".
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"Two terms seeming to often coincide, making love and poetry. The act of making love, sex, and sensuality are greatly utilized topics in writing, painting and even music. However, some may argue that this combination, sex and art, is odd in our media drenched America. Today, Eros parallels pornography and explicit sexual content, both ?located on a continuum of erotic desire and dread? (Ostriker 327). Many poets have made an attempt to conquer the tangles and complications of sex and love, drawing connections between love of bodies and love of mind, leaving the abstract to the sensuous and the logical to the emotional. Sharon Olds, author of the poem ?Sex Without Love,? presents her audience with physically and sexually charged poetry. From no angle do her poems disguise erotic desires."
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Robert Frost's Poetry of Love, 1973.
This paper discusses Robert Frost's poetry of love, with examples from poems: Sexual love, married love, love of people, nature and God.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 7 sources, $ 63.95
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"Robert Frost is commonly regarded by his American public as a poet of Nature, and on occasion likened by his critics to Vergil and Wordsworth. At first glance much of Frost's poetry is unpretentious and simple, having the appearance of clever verbal charms and homely, parochial descriptions. His verse is modest in its diction, colloquial in its syntax and relies on ordinary experience. He affects the stance of the inspired but cool and shrewd New England observer and like Coleridge seems to believe:
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small.
But Frost's apparent loyalty to the ordinary themes of earth and sky, to the heavens with their constellations and the small flowers with their insects, does not necessarily permit Frost to ... "
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?Love in the Time of Cholera?, 2004.
An examination of the theme of love in ?Love in the Time of Cholera? by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
2,120 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper discusses how love clearly exists within "Love in the Time of Cholera", a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and how it is ultimately a book that celebrates the idea of an everlasting, true love. It looks at how love is shown in many forms in the novel, from the romantic professions of the young Florentino to the more mature love of Fermina and Florentino that comes with age. It also examines how, in between, Garcia Marquez writes masterfully of love within the concept of family and marriage and the ideas of fidelity, both sexual and emotional.
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"Love in the Time of Cholera is a story about the love of Florentino Ariza, a young man who falls passionately for the beautiful girl Fermina Daza. The novel opens with the memorable opening line told by Dr. Juvenal Urbino "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love" (p. 01). The story takes place over about 50 years, spanning the beginning of the 20th century. Florentino, a humble riverboat worker, falls in love with the graceful Fermina who saunters with a "doe's gait making her seem immune to gravity", and "almond shaped eyes" (p.05). Fermina's family opposes their union, but the passionate young pair carry on their romance through secret letters and coded telegrams."
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Plato's Conception of Love, 2002.
Analyzes Plato's conception of love and whether it allows for a love characterized by respect for individual differences by examining four different writings.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This four-page essay examines and analyzes Plato's Symposium, Nussbaum's essay, The Speech of Alcibiades: A Reading of the Symposium"; and Vlastos'essay, "The Individual as the Object of Love in Plato," in terms of whether Plato's conception of love allows for the love between individuals, a love that is characterized by respect for individual idiosyncrasies and autonomy.
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?Love in the Time of Cholera?, 2002.
An analysis of themes of love and cholera in the novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
1,405 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 46.95
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This paper reviews the novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and examines how the theme of love and sickness is used by the author by analyzing the book chapter by chapter. The symptoms of cholera include pallor, rapid heartbeat, lethargy and sleepiness or sleeplessness. The ?symptoms? of being in love are very similar ? and tragic unfulfilled love can be as fatal as cholera. The novel focuses on the attitudes and experiences of the three major characters ?Florentino Ariza, Fermina Daza and Dr Juvenal Urbino and how they, at times, find themselves in a feverish state through love ? literally making themselves ill in sometimes comical and extreme circumstances.
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"The story returns to the past until chapter five. Chapter two looks back to the youth of Florentino and Fermina. The young man makes a delivery to the girl?s home and is attracted to her. He begins to make his feelings known. She eventually notices him sitting on a park bench on her way home from school, and that he looks ill. He finally plucks up the courage to give her a note and falls ill while waiting for a reply. His lovesickness is initially diagnosed as cholera. Florentino also makes himself ill by eating gardenias, drinking cologne and even eating rose petals."
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Plato's Conception of Love, 2002.
This paper answers the question: Does Plato's conception of love allow for love between two individuals?
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses the premise that Plato's conception of love does not allow for love between two individuals.
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False Love and Its Downfall, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the theme of love and false love in William Shakespeare's "King Lear", F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby" and "Fifth Business" by Robertson Davies.
769 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 27.95
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This paper examines how although "King Lear" by William Shakespeare, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "Fifth Business" by Robertson Davies, are all very different works from different times and places, the main characters all possess a similar downfall or fatal flaw: They cannot distinguish true love from false love. It attempts to show how as a result, King Lear loses his kingdom and his life and how Nick Carraway, the narrator of "The Great Gatsby", gets involved with a dangerous, immoral crowd and undergoes a personal struggle with his own morals and lifestyle. It also looks at how Dunstan Ramsay, the narrator of "Fifth Business, tells the tale of his life, throughout which he suffers because of his inability to let go of a woman from his past.
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"In the Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway goes through his own hardships and makes his own mistakes. Most of these, like those of Lear, stem from his inability to distinguish between true and false love. He has an infatuation for Daisy Buchanan (one shared by many characters in the novel), and begins an affair with Jordan Baker, a cynical golfer. The problem, of course, is that he mistakes the infatuation or lust he has in the presence of these two women for real emotion, for real love. Because of this, he believes that they care for him, in some way at least, and that they are good people. As he finds out later, however, this is not the case."
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Jesse Stuart's "Love", 2008.
This paper is a review of Jesse Stuart's short story, "Love", about how pragmatic love is expressed.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 32.95
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This paper explains that in Jesse Stuart's short story, "Love" the conflict between the father and the son, which is expressed through their differing perspectives on the world, relates to the overall theme of pragmatic love. The author points out that Jesse Stuart's story describes an encounter in which a man has his dog kill a snake. The paper states that, beneath the surface, the story is a deeper one of unreasoning destruction brought about by an allegedly higher creature and the compassion shown by an animal often associated with evil. The author concludes that, by the end of the story, father appears to have learned something about love and about making unreasoning judgments.
Table of Contents:
Nature's Adversary
Nature's Advocate
Relationships
Conclusion
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"The following day, the father and the son find the bull black snake coiled near his dead mate. The snake has found her in the stillness of the night, which is not unlike the stillness of death. "Still devoted to his mate, the bull snake "lifted his head and followed [them] as [they] walked around the dead snake." The snake has shown more compassion to his mate than the father has shown to the female snake; unlike the human, who allegedly has the benefit of human reason and emotion, the snake does not instinctively and indiscriminately attack."
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Charity in ?The Four Loves?, by C.S. Lewis, 2002.
A paper which discusses the most important form of love - charity - in C.S. Lewis' book "The Four Loves".
990 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper shows that associations among the characters of Perelandra, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in C.S. Lewis' "The Four Loves" reveal the qualities of primary three kinds of love, namely: erotic love, affection, and friendship. It discusses how the author, however, overwhelms and outshines these three forms by a superior form of love, charity. This is the fourth form of love described by Lewis for being the fountainhead of all loves. The paper shows that in the opinion Lewis, all other forms of love take their origin from charity. It shows how this fact is also obvious in the story that it is not easy to classify the kind of love that exists between two entities - it can even be the case that two or more kinds of love be present in one association simultaneously.
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"Ransom's desperation to contact was the culmination of the instinctive desire of making friends in human beings. Though this desire is deeply-rooted in the usual familiarity of all individuals in the world, it is not a ?must?. C.S. Lewis illustrates friendship in The Four Loves as a simulated need and states, ?We can live and breed without friendship.? (The Four Loves, p.58). Ransom?s distraction towards friendship was a ?need-love? case that is profound in humans. Lewis says in relation to this ?need? component of human liking, ?Our craving for the affection of others.? (The Four Loves, p.39)."
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Sternberg's Theory of Love, 2005.
This paper examines psychologist Robert Sternberg' triangular theory of love based on his 1986 article "A Triangular Theory of Love".
3,180 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 92.95
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This paper explains that psychologist Robert Sternberg proposes a theory of love consisting of a "love triangle" with the three components of passion, the drive that leads to romance, physical attraction, sexual consummation and related phenomena; intimacy, the feelings of closeness, connectedness and bondedness in loving relationships, and commitment, the decision that one loves someone else and commits to maintain that love. The author points out that these three components may be combined to characterize eight kinds of love; however, the relative emphasis of each component changes over time as an adult romantic relationship develops. The author points out that Sternberg's triangular theory of love has been criticized for its methodology and on the grounds that passion, intimacy and commitment often overlap; other scholars have found this theory to be a meaningful base for their own study of love. Includes illustration and Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale questionnaire.
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"Commitment is the cognitive component, which consists of knowing and perception. It can keep a marriage together way after passion is gone and intimacy is no longer possible. But commitment without one or both of the other elements leads to an empty marriage. Many older persons today despair over the younger generation's seemingly unwillingness to make commitments. Perhaps younger people, seeing what has happened with earlier generations, realize that people and relationships change and that making a commitment should go far beyond what matters to them in the short run."
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C.S. Lewis' "The Four Loves", 2002.
This paper presents a critical review of C.S. Lewis' work on the various forms of love.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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The paper begins by listing Lewis? four types of love - affection, friendship, romantic love and charity, and by emphasizing that no form of natural love can outlive charity (Agape), the love that comes from God as divine. It outlines the main theme of the book and distinguishes between these forms of love using quotes from the book to illustrate its points. Next the paper turns to the philosophy of divine love (love from God) ? a form different to all other types of love. It explores why it is the most important form of love for the spiritual development of an individual. It looks at the love relationship between God and man, elucidating how a healthy relationship involves need on the part of humans; and explains how a relationship with God, not based on need, could be perilous.
Table of Contents
The Theme
Distinguishing the Forms of Love
The Philosophy of Divine Love
The Element of Need
A Human?s Love for God without Need
Conclusion
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"The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis focuses to develop the reader?s comprehension of the various forms of love. Explaining from the biblical, as well as the modern perspective, Lewis enlightens that there are four forms of love: affection, friendship, romantic love and charity. In Greek, the affection between people and for things is called Storge; fraternal love and friendship is known as Phileo; Eros is the name given to romantic or sexual love; and charity or the love of God, in its divinity is termed Agape. With straightforwardness and cordiality, C.S. Lewis elucidates the ambiguity in one of the most shared and influential experience of human relationships. Lewis emphasizes that no form of natural love can outlive without Agape, the love that comes from God as divine."
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Love Supersedes Time and Period, 2006.
A comparison between different types of love present in four different pieces of literature.
1,552 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 50.95
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This paper analyzes four love stories and the differing types of love present in each. It looks at the love between Odysseus and his wife Penelope in Homer's "The Odyssey". Next it looks at Don Quixote and his love for Dulcinea in Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote". Then it examines how King Dushyanta and Shakuntala fall in love and marry in "The Shakuntala" . Finally it discusses how in "The Nibelungenlied" the love story of Siegfried and Kriemhild unfolds. The paper looks at how all four stories contain elements related to love and how each of the loves has a flaw, different in their own way but still significant. In each of the stories the love between the hero and his heroine are different but the paper focuses on commonalities of love and different paths that lead to it.
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"The Shakuntala introduces us to a young innocent girl (Shakuntala) who falls in love with King Dushyanta and he likewise with her. After the two secretly marry and create a child the King return to his kingdom alone planning to send for his new bride shortly after his return. The flaw in their love is the curse placed on Shakuntatla because of her daydreaming, which leads her to inadvertently refuse hospitality to a passer-by. After, the King is sick with guilt realizing he refused his own pregnant wife and seeks she and his son out. The love is then reunited and made whole again. "
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