Short Essay About Love

Looking at his first objection, selfless love isn’t meaningful love, Ayn Rand states, “A selfless disinterested love is a contradiction in terms: it means that one is indifferent to that which one values” (Rand, #?) Meaning a person who is selfless, values others, but being disinterested, by this I take as meaning detached in a sense, the person is loving not because they love the values of a person but because they are suppose to love all people. Rand states that going along with being selfless…

The message that love can change over a period of time is indicated in “(love song, with two goldfish)” by Grace Chui when the love between the fish dies and in “To My Dear and Loving Husband” where love can grow to be unbreakable. In the first poem, the blooming love between the two fish is described in the first few stanzas. However, the love between the two goldfish is seen to have faded away when their love is described to have “gone belly-up. His heart sinks / like a fish. He drinks / like…

included: mortality, the natural world, love, desire and faith. Dickinson was able to show abstract ideas with her descriptions of scenery. In the poem If I can stop, it attempts to show selflessness as something that fulfills someone’s heart. During the poem Dickinson rephrases, “I shall not live in vain”(Short story by Emily dickinson) , she says that as long as she can help someone from feeling pain, she will be complete. This shows a sense of love and compassion towards others. In many…

is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” In this short story, a man and a woman learn to forgive and overcome the temptation and deception life has to offer. As a husband and wife, Missie Mae and Joe fell into a deep, young love. Although Missie Mae cheats on her husband in order to get what he desired the most, Joe doesn’t leave her. Joe, in Zora Neal Hurston’s short story, “The Gilded Six-Bits,” forgives Missy Mae because of their happiness, true love, and…

Elephants” is one of the well-known short stories which shows to people clearly the Iceberg Theory . In the story, Hemingway uses symbol and short sentences of conversation in order to make the different arguments about the definition of love and happiness between the man and the woman. In “Hill Like White Elephants”, people can see clear that there are two main characters: the man and the women who are waiting for the train. In the story, Hemingway uses a lot of short sentence for the…

Do we really aim to DESTROY the person we love, or is it just that we love them so much we destruct our life to keep them? Why is it important for us to love things that we find precarious? Most importantly, why do we look to things that murder our conscious and damage our heart? Using a short story, William Faulkner discusses that isolation and loneliness can lead to destruction. The word “desolation” can be defined as a state of complete emptiness or destruction. Typically, the warfare of…

False Love In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, two characters believe their love for each other is so strong that living without the other serves no purpose, however; in such a short time their so-called love lead to multiple deaths. Romeo and Juliet believe they have a very strong and powerful love with each other after just one night and a few words, however: in such a short time they end up dying like much of their friends and family because of a lustful infatuation between the two lovers. To…

1. What did you learn from the short story? At the beginning of the story, is a relationship of friendship between Simon and George. They both have known each other for so long. The both of them were considered as siblings and their families. Then what I learned from the short story is a family relationship that was built by the family of Simon and visits are also reviewed by the George. Simon decided to get married and build a family of his own, he studied to become a husband and father also…

Colliers ironic short story “The Chaser,” the main character buys a love potion to make the person he loves fall in love with him. The seller of the potion warns the main character that this isn’t a real love and he will regret it. In the poem “Masquerade” John Mark Green, the speaker explains that we, as humans, become obsessed with the idea of hiding behind masks and the mask don’t reveal our true identities which make it easier for us to fall in “love.” Both the poem and the short story…

People frequently suffer from the choice between love or jealousy; nonetheless, in the short story “The Lady, or the Tiger?”, written by Frank R. Stockton, the author informs the reader that the princess chose the lady for her lover to marry. In the exposition of the same short story, the author narrates the strong feeling of love that the Princess possessed toward the handsome peasant who was on trial, “This royal maiden was well satisfied with her lover, for he was handsome and brave to a…