Love Essays

It has been almost 12 years since the famous TV series Shanghai Bund was aired in mainland China and almost every part of Asia, and yet the emotions, the controversies and the love of its characters still haunt the soul of almost all the viewers. The moment the theme song …

There are numerous types of love shown within Shakespeare’s, Twelfth Night. The types of love displayed in this play include obsessive love when Orsino is seen groveling over Olivia for her hand in marriage, Brotherly love we see from Antonio and Sebastian, and extreme self-love shown to the audience, by …

Sam Mendes has tried hard not to make ‘American Beauty’ a theatrical piece. He states this when he is interviewed by a reporter from time magazine. Sam Mendes has only ever worked in theatre and has won a ‘Toni’ award (an award for theatre). He is very well known for …

“Cities are the abyss of the human species. ” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau). Throughout the early and mid-1900’s industrialization and atrocities such as The Great War plagued the modern world, this caused many individuals to take a pessimistic and anguished view of the world. The industrialization and dehumanization at this time caused …

Sonnets are extremely important poems. Most sonnets are about the theme of love. The poets used sonnets to express the powerful emotion of love for their lovers. Love is a universal emotion as everyone probably feels love for someone at one time in their life. There are many types of …

In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, the community has a very significant and complex role. At times the community has a very helpful presence and at other times harsh and harmful. This is a community of former slaves in post-Civil War era; they have been deeply scarred emotionally, psychologically, and physically by …

In this essay I am going to be comparing the relationship between Jane Eyre and her cousin John Reed. The story is written before 1900 and is a fictional autobiography. Charlotte Bronte uses the fictional character of Jane Eyre to portray herself in parts of the story, especially the similarities …

Robert Browning was one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century and is still considered one of the major poets of the Victorian era. He was born in 1812 and married the privately educated poet, Elizabeth Browning, in 1846. They eloped to Florence, Italy, where his wife gave birth …

My initial reaction to what I thought the love poetry was that it was going to be comic (like last year) and obviously romantic and perhaps even a bit ‘soppy’. Also, because we knew it was going to be pre 1900 love poetry, I also expected some hard language and …

The Count of Monte Cristo is ultimately a novel about vengeance. Edmond Dantes, in the prime of his life, is framed and imprisoned for treason. There are three men responsible for this: Fernand Mondego, Danglars, and Villefort. As a result of what they did to him, Dantes swears revenge. “You …