Example of Essay About Love

Ann Landers once said “Love is friendship that has caught on fire, It settles less than perfection and makes allowances for human weakness.” In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins’,the overarching theme is teenage love. The main character is Katniss Everdeen. Katniss and Peeta both fall for each other. Peeta told Katniss that he had a crush on her on the 1st day of school. They both work together on the games. Teenage love can be complicated for some people and by the relationship that Katniss…

In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we are drawn to mull over the love between the four Athenian aristocrats. On one hand there is the irrational approach, which appeals to passion and capricious preference but, on the other hand there is the rational approach towards the love affair which appeals to law and tradition. In the struggle of the lovers, neither irrationality, nor reason dominates the other. Sometimes reason is in control and sometimes irrationality is in control.…

Duke, Orsino; who Viola fell in love with. Then when the twins find each other again they find themselves in a misunderstood situation. Romantic comedies are based on happiness with a little bit of tragedy added, but Twelfth Night is based on tragedy with some happiness added. Firstly, Shakespeare makes unrequited love a tragic sadness. Orsino is so depressed and desperate for the love of Olivia he will do anything to get over his love for her. This unrequited love differs from other romantic…

Courtly love is falling in love with a person and not being able to confess that love. “The Knight’s Tale” is a part of The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, and is all about this concept. While on the journey to Canterbury, the knight shares his tale conveying the true identity of courtly love; it manipulates the power it has to control and ultimately ruin lives. He show this through the story of how two cousins fall in love with a woman during their life imprisonment. Arcita and…

Biblical Love- Midsummer Night’s Dream “The more we learn about God and feel his love for us, the more we realize that the infinite sacrifice of Jesus Christ is a divine gift of God.” (Dieter F. Uchtdorf). Biblical love is real and sacrificial, while earthly love is fake and untrusting. Although earthly love can be sacrificial, it is very rare. While reading Midsummer Night’s Dream, some learned that two characters stand out, one showing sacrificial love, and the other shows non sacrificial and…

The True Love of Lysander In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, two points of view on love exist and clash regularly throughout the play. There are those who believe in forced love, and there are those who believe in true love. One of the four young lovers in this play, Lysander believes in true love. Readers are able to see this through his actions but also his words throughout. The very first scene in Act I is very revealing about Lysander’s character because he is…

Maya Angelou once said “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” To the human race, love is second nature. From family to friends, our favorite items, and places are all part of what we love. Lives would be totally changed, without this intense feeling of affection we instinctively feel. Love is binding, love is kind, love is selfless, love is everything that is needed to survive in this heartless world. In the…

Our Souls at Night (Wheel Theory) What is love? That is the age old question that is almost impossible to define, people have been asking the question for a long time and still have not found a very good answer. Love, depending on the person you ask can be many different things, but there is one thing that we cannot deny, we all experience it at least once in our lives. Professor Ira Reiss from the University of Minnesota came up with her own theory of love that is broken down into four…

The Search for Love Success is often defined as what a person achieves individually. For example, many people who are deemed successful are “self-made” right? These successful individuals appear so powerful on the outside, however, what people don’t normally perceive are the family, friends, coaches, and all the other people behind the “successful” individual. This idea of support is not normally understood by teenagers. To them, the love and support of parents and teachers may be perceived as…

Destructive love can affect more than just the couple that started it. In the story of “Macbeth,” the destructive love between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth not only destroyed them but it also destroyed King Duncan and his family including his sons who witnessed their father's death. As Donalbain and Malcolm are sitting in the courtyard after their father's death had been discovered they discuss what might happen to them Donalbain says to Malcolm “ Hid in an auger hole, may rush, and seize us? Lets…