Category: Falling in Love

Nevil Shute’s On The Beach is a thrilling story inspired by the possible outcome of nuclear war. Many changes are evident throughout the entire plot due to the situation; the end of the world. In addition to environmental changes, the lasting survivors go through profound mental, physical, and emotional changes. The character who goes through…

Love is a philosophy that can imply various things to different people, however, all concepts of love have one thing in common. People can love other people, animals, or material things now, but it is the same: love (Kaufman, 2013). Granting their desires and cognitive compulsions can lead them to fall in love. Love, in…

The Beatles were one of the most famous boy bands in the ’90s. Each member had a contribution to the band. Ringo Starr played drums, George Harrison played lead guitar, John Lennon played rhythm guitar and Paul Mccartney played bass. With the different instruments each of them plays, they still connected together to create a…

‘Sometimes you have to forget what you feel, and remember what you deserve.’. I’m not sure who said or wrote it, but after reading Simone’s book, The Woman Destroyed, her fiction has the ability to deeply and powerfully influence my emotions, views, and opinions. The Woman Destroyed, a collection of three novellas by Simone, explores…

“If all else perished and she remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remains and she were annihilated, the universe will turn into a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it.” This line quoted by Slavoj Zizek in his talk about “Love as a Political Category” is a…

In the past years, I lived a life with no directions to follow. My heart was chained with emotional numbness and rejected the attempts of falling in love with the wrong person. I was scared of giving appreciation to others without even being appreciated in the very first place. I thought that I was living…

In the lecture by Doctor Helen Fisher titled, “Why People Fall in Love”, she explores precisely that- explaining what emotional, biological, and physical drives lead human beings to fall in love with another person. Though we have always had an innate drive for reproduction, humans did not initially evolve as monogamous beings. Fisher believes that…

Love, at first sight, is an oxymoronic statement. The concepts don’t go together at all, they might work in Hollywood but they don’t work in a scientific sense. They may work in theory but they don’t work in reality. The theme is conveyed throughout many romantic films and plays from the classic ‘Romeo and Juliet’…

Due to the long-standing rivalry between their two families, the pair cannot be together. This feud resulted in a tragic consequence. The main theme is loyalty because of the love in the conflict. Romeo and Juliet both struggle to be loyal to their families. At the beginning of the play Romeo claims to be in…

In twelfth night, Shakespeare presents love as a type of madness through the character of Orsino and Olivia when he writes ‘If I am as mad as he, then sadness and merry madness equal be’ In these lines, Olivia suggests she is as mad as Malvolio, who has been different after reading the letter from…