Love

Love?

Human emotion is what gives our lives flavor and disassociates us from most other animals. Our emotions are extremely intense and of them all the most outstanding is love. Although we understand what love is, we have yet to begin to comprehend it.

Every day that passes brings me to a closer understanding of love. Love provides two hearts with the ability to grow together as one. With love, I am capable of awaking each morning. Drama filled lives and sadistic crimes put me in fear of the unlived life. The love I have to look forward to wipes away those fears, making me feel so thankful. Love is an important aspect of life and it gives meaning to all that we feel inside. Life would not be possible without the gift of love, because like blood, love runs through our veins and keeps our hearts beating, with eagerness of what tomorrow will hold.

Love is the ultimate prize in life, the gift that I am most thankful for. The description of love is found in every smile, every pounding heart, and the sweet taste of every romantic interaction. Love is an emotional feeling deep inside the human soul. Love is the basis of every day life, and it gives us the power to feel so affectionately for one another. I would give up just about everything in my life for love, because I could never be more thankful for anything else.

On a lighter note, love cannot be so easily explained. Good and bad intertwine across love and hardships are hardly scarce. As with many words in the English language, love is a derivative of the Latin word "causemajoraproblemus" which means "You're miserable when you got it and miserable when you don't." The word was created to explain the biological phenomenon that existed when certain individuals came into contact with each other and either remained together or went about their lives separately. Regardless of the outcome, the relationship was usually characteristic of throat lumps, knotted stomachs, weak knees, temporary loss of language, sweaty palms, dizziness,

sneezing, and occasional nausea. Belligerent insanity also resulted. History clearly illustrates this.

Love is not patient, love is not kind. It envies, boasts, and is proud. It is sometimes rude and self-seeking; it is easily angered. It usually protects and sparingly trusts, and statistically it is not usually preserved.

Ernest Hemingway writes of love from first hand experience. He writes of love in a strained environment, a unique relationship due to anomalous situation. Although views of love change by individual, all people have respect for the power it obtains.

The novel A Farewell to Arms is a war story intertwined with love, or a love story weeded with war. Two lovers meet during World War I which dramatizes the circumstances of their affiliation. Henry and Catherine meet each other in an extraordinary situation which alters the quotidian of their relationship.

The war is an immeasurable issue which almost overshadows individuality and the significance of personal relationships. The characters all feel so small in contrast to such a contention, which spawns a feeling of insignificance. The war shows the meretricocity of human life which greatly affects the characters views on present relationships. Both Henry and Catherine adopt roles to escape from the war and dwell on a mix of fantasy and reality. "It's all right. Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do. Were they pretty?" (43). This quote shows the game-esque bantering between Henry and Catherine. The characters revert to roles in order to keep their self esteem or face the insignificance of their lives.

Both Henry and Catherine seem to adopt their roles when they are around each other and abandon them when apart. Any breaking in of reality throws their act off as we saw in Milan when the two had to leave the crowds of the racetrack. Reality starts to infiltrate the role playing game of the two and meanwhile the two become more and more dependent on each other.

People all put up some sort of front or act in successful relationships because honestly, everyone is unbearable when uncompromising. The two characters are both getting emotional support from the role playing which in turn helps them through the difficult times in which they were placed. Henry is feeding the lack of aim in his life and the void filled by the unimportance of the war to him. Catherine is suffering the loss of her fiancй. The loss of her first loved one threw her into almost the same aimless spiral as

Henry. The mutual support between the two strengthens their relationship and tightens the bond between them. Also, the darkness of the outside war contrasts the brilliance of the love they share.

The role playing of these two characters is a gateway between reality and fantasy for Catherine and Henry. However, it seems as if the gate is ruptured and some of each side dilutes the other, the definition of a true relationship.

William Shakespeare is a writer who shows his extensive grasp of love through his writing. He includes an array of circumstantial loving relationships and situations which put them to the test. Shakespeare's life and relationships alone are worthy of examination which most likely contributes to the accuracy of his plays. Shakespeare truly shows that experience is knowledge.

How true is my love? William Shakespeare creates an imaginative wonderland for his readers. His own marriage was intense as the marriages he fabricated. Shakespeare's wife was young and beautiful; her name was Anne Hathaway. She was eight years older than Shakespeare and he was only eighteen years old when he married Anne. They were joined in a "hand fast marriage" which is a contract to marry before witnesses, marked by a kiss and a ring. It is followed by sexual intercourse which forms a binding marriage.

Romeo and Juliet had a delightful marriage. Shakespeare always wrote of true love and strong relationships. Romeo loved Juliet so much that he was willing to die for her. He never did her wrong and cherished her love as if it had once been lost. Shakespeare highly admires women, which shows in all of his writings. In Elizabeth I, Viola is a young witty girl who dresses as a man to work with Shakespeare. Viola falls in love with him. Viola is portrayed as a vibrant and bright woman, and Shakespeare dresses her with praise and adulation. Accusations of Shakespeare's affairs are published in the novel, No Bed for Bacon. Shakespeare was said to write about love from his own experience. A Midsummer Night's dream is said to be his writing which most portrays his views on love.

Is love predictable? Hermia and Lysander, in a Midsummer Night's dream have