Courtly love, entailing only loving someone of the right status, was shallow but held financial stability, power and fame, erotic love was physically and aesthetically pleasing but it's passion decayed with time. Romantic love was, and still is, the only immortal love as lovers loved the pers...

Although they are physically united in an erotic partnership, Tomas and Tereza possess very different attitudes about love and relationships. Their differing perspectives are summed up in the subtitle of Section 2 of Kundera's novel, "Body and Soul." Tereza wants to possess Tomas, bo...

Hump And Maude: A Closer Look Hump and Maude are from the same social class. In that case they would be a great couple but Hump and Maude both live inside their heads, especially Hump. Hump has never looked at a girl the way he looks at Maude. Before Maude he didn't have an erotic attractio...