Romance film

Plato’s Symposium offers various views on where love can be found in the mind, the body, and the soul. Aphrodite shows how desire fogs the mind, keeping Sappho from seeing one’s true beauty. In Sappho’s Ode to Aphrodite, beauty is where desire remains satisfactory for one as opposed to Plato’s Symposium, where desire leads to an understanding of true beauty, the beauty of the body, the mind, and the soul. The concept of love presented by Diatoma is able to reach the true understanding of beauty…

In Victorian England, a young heroine fell in love and became engaged to a rich socialite man, not knowing he had a secret; a secret that would be revealed on their wedding day. When found out by the heroine, this discovery would leave her utterly distraught and with no choice but to flee to the country. This is the situation that is faced by Jane Eyre in the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Eventually, it is discovered that the man, Edward Rochester was already married. He was married to…

illiam Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is a play about two star-crossed lovers who suffer a grisly fate, of happy never after. It is a story of rivalry, in the ancient Greek society and the tragic romances therein created. The existent rules of this highly patriarchal society prohibit these two lovers from being together. They are nevertheless determined to do everything in their power to be together, and by this, they go against the society. It is…

Infatuation and love are two vastly different types of affection that most people get confused between. It is likely to occur more so among a boy and a girl when they are young and inexperienced as opposed to when they’re grown and matured. Infatuation can easily be mistaken for love in many cases. In Romeo and Juliet infatuation is mistaken for love by the both of them, for what they had between them was not love due to the fact that they were not mature enough, love takes time to develop, and…

epic poem, Beowulf, has been the source of inspiration to an incredible amount of artistic pieces: films, novels, songs, comic books, video games and operas. Due to the nature of the poem, every adaptation that has ever been made is different from the other, but most of them respect the epic hero prototype. Even though Baker fills the gaps of indeterminacy in a weird and twisted way, what the film brings up as interesting is that his version of Beowulf does not follow such prototype: Beowulf's…

In Wong Kar-Wai’s film In the Mood for Love (2000) he comments on the nature of love and the secrecy and doubt that come with it. In the scene where Mrs. Chan meets Mr. Chow in his new apartment for the first time, it reveals how the two characters genuinely feel about each other and how they themselves feel about it as well. Through the use of editing, sound, and framing; the audience is able to decipher the deeper feeling and meaning behind this scene. The scene begins with Mrs. Chan in a…

To begin with, both stories are based on a tragedy that came between their love. The main characters are the ones who end up dead. I’m talking about the story about Romeo and Juliet which is not alike to Pyramus and Thisbe, but there are some similarities. Let me start off with the differences. In your own perspective, you can tell me if there mostly alike or not alike. Romeo and Juliet didn’t know each other, they didn’t talk about each other before, didn’t communicate, and didn’t…

Love and Time Are Precious: Let’s Use It Wisely In life, one of the most amazing things we experience is love and that special connection with our significant other. In the poem, “To Coy His Mistress”, Andrew Marvell tells the efforts of a man who is desperately trying to seduce his mistress into making love with him before it’s too late. With this dramatic monologue Marvell express the speaker’s admiration and desire to love the mistress through metaphors and imagery to connect to the themes…

The romantic comedy, Much Ado About Nothing a play by William Shakespeare, showcases how deception can be viewed in more than one manner. These deceptions rely on the sender, and their tricks and lies can come with good intentions. This play celestially reveals how characters are deceived and how the tricks uncover their emotions, and why they behave in a certain manner. The use of lies and deception in Much Ado About Nothing highlights the idea that tricks and plans are not just for villains…

Throughout Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the author suggests that when people are mourning a loved one, they can express their love for them in ruinous ways. The belief of people acting in regretful methods because of intense love, is another concept that is reflected in the story of the two love birds. Romeo and Juliet conveys an idea of destructive behavior that is caused by impassioned love, when Romeo exhibits disastrous actions when he kills Tybalt, Paris, and even himself.…