- In life, individuals are faced with many social and physical barriers that they must choose either to overcome, or let these barriers impede our future. In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, these physical and social barriers, both prevent and allow true love from either fading or thrivi...

In her book \"Virtual Love,\" author and columnist Meghan Daum explores the passion and pitfalls of online courtship. Online courtship, like its more tumultuous counterpart online dating, reveals the power of technology to alter the way people communicate. Body language, physical contact, and the so...

Beauty is generally classified into two main categories: physical and mental. In the Charlotte Bronte's Jane Erye, the protagonist rejects by choice and submission, her own physical beauty in favor of her mental intelligence and humility. Her choice becomes her greatest benefit by allowing her to wi...

Air and Angels John Donne's poem "Air and Angels" focuses on the medieval beliefs respecting angels. Angels are commonly seen as messengers of God or appear as a conventional representation of a human form with wings. A popular theory in medieval times assumed ang...

Beauty has always been part of our lives, and it influences a part of love. It's everywhere. But can it be the foundation to love? To many people love is "the greatest" thing earth has to offer, but is it really love when sometimes all we focus on is the way our "special someone...

Shakespeare\'s love sonnets describe three different contexts in which love operates, as such, he depicts a multi-faceted picture of love. Love in Shakespeare\'s poems does not have a single definition, but rather, an intangible conglomeration of characteristics that, together, make up an ever power...

Blindness is a whole different thing than not having the ability for the eye to see an object, according to Shakespeare. It is not a physical quality but a mental flaw that some people possess. This fault in characters exacerbates their ability to understand and it also leads them in the wrong dir...

Although \"Araby\" was a very short story, the author James Joyce did an impressive job of discussing very deep issues through his skills in using light, vision, and beauty. He is able to discuss things like religion, infatuation, and inner human feelings simply through descriptive words and what se...

*Although "Araby" was a very short story, the author James Joyce did an impressive job of discussing very deep issues through his skills in using light, vision, and beauty. He is able to discuss things like religion, infatuation, and inner human feelings simply through descriptive words and what se...

Youth loves life yet \"nobody loves life like him that\'s growing old.\" These wise words spoken by Sophocles helps to convey the idea that aging brings forth an appreciation of youth while containing a realistic view on man\'s inescapable journey to death. Aging affects relationships in various way...

HUGGING ... The Celestial Language of Love ... A hug delights and warms and charms, it must be why we all have arms (-anonymous). Ever wonder why God gave us arms? Perhaps to be able to hug the one you love and show him or her your compassion is one of the possible answer. Hugging is a beautiful ...

Metaphysical Poetry is the classification of poetry that has attached to it a long and peculiar history; metaphysical poetry encompasses the whole human experience but is imparted with such intelligence or wit, seriousness and passion on the reflective topics of experience, particularly about love, ...

Patriotism Through Their Eyes An interpretive paper on Yukio Mishima's Patriotism Generally, the western culture's view of the relationship between a man and his wife in a Japanese culture is pretty narrow. Typically their view of the women is that they are very submissive and quiet ...

During a person's lifetime, that person may embark upon many different types of journeys. In a piece of literature, the journey motif is a distinctive idea, or theme that is elaborated on. The main character, John Wheelwright, from John Irving's, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and Jake Barnes...

William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a story that addresses the symbolic changes in the South after the civil war. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect and poverty of the new times in the town of Jefferson. The rampant symbolism and Faulkner's descriptions of the decaying ho...

love is a thing that grows along with time , love is sumthin that u can not just conjer up in your mind love is like a responsability that u have to take care of , nurish so there fore it will blossom and grow, love has alot downfalls like broken hearts and sorrow, but then co...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame "Love is a universal language." This popular quote from many movies and literary works describes the importance of love, and how there are no limits or barriers when dealing with love. Many people cannot even help whether or not they fall in love. T...

Comparative Essay Oedipus the King and King Lear The Theme of Blindness March 22, 2000 BJ Wheatley In Sophocles and Shakespearean terms, blindness means a completely different thing. Blindness can normally be defined as the inability of the eye to see, but according to both plays; b...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame "Love is a universal language." This popular quote from many movies and literary works describes the importance of love, and how there are no limits or barriers when dealing with love. Many people cannot even help whether or not they fall in love. There a...

I want to be a famous actress, with two children, and five houses in five different countries. Everyone has goals. Whether they involve career, relationships, or self-actualization, goals are important to the development of an individual. When we are children we tend to set our goals high and e...

partners. Both sexes believed that homogamy is associated with happy and lasting relationships (Knox 1)." Many male and female college students prefer to date someone of the same caliber as himself or herself. "Both sexes believed that homogamy is associated with happy and lasting relationships. Ho...

"The House of Bernarda Alba" takes place in Spain during the early 1900's, and "Like Water for Chocolate" is set in a similar time period, except that it comes to pass in Mexico. These two literary works have many similar qualities. Only one of these qualities will be addre...

The two works King Lear by William Shakespeare and Oedipus the King by Sophocles share similar themes. One such theme is sight versus blindness. In Shakespeare's King Lear the issue of sight versus blindness is a recurring theme. In Shakespearean terms, as well as in Sohpocles' Oedipus the King, ...

metaphysical coceits in valediction: forbidding mourning John Donne uses three metaphysical conceits to successfully convince his love of the transcendent nature of their relationship. His first conceit compares their great love to the moving of celestial bodies above the moon. Donne juxtapose...

Everyone has experienced love in their life to a point where love could not be ignored. To describe love in words it is not easy. However, it is possible to explain how love affects us. As I read Sellzer's essay called "Love Sick," I felt that love is affecting our daily lives physically, mentally, ...