Love Actually

Sonnet 130 Sonnet 130 is one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, if not the most famous one. It actually makes fun of the Petrachan conventions of love poetry, that is to say the praises of beauty and perfection and the use of a huge variety of metaphors, based largely on natural beauties. The poet satires the tradition of comparing one’s beloved to all kinds of clichés and actually he subverts and reverses the conventions by describing not a perfect, but a rather imperfect lover. The speaker

Going through confusion in Erdrich’s Love Medicine Plan Introduction I) Blurriness and lack of order as a way of creating powerful characters. a) Multiplicity of narrative voices: the novel’s strength in character’s construction. b) External objects, a way of knowing about the individuality of each character. II) The meanings of the novel: a reader ‘s construct a) Subjectivity and multiplicity of points of views

this incessant worrying that I can't be loved as I am." ~Anais Nin Often people who have been disappointed in love become afraid to love or to open their hearts for the other person to enter and love and be loved in return. And I say: 'Love. Just live regardless. Your heart will never get broken, it cannot get broken. How can you break something as special as love?! Just love.'" ~Jolita Kelias Dans la main d'un ami, il faut déposer sa confiance; dans son âme, sa compréhension; sur ses

Constance was in love few years ago but Aleck had to leave for a year at Buenos Aires in order to work for an unbelievable salary. So, they written to each other during few months but little by little they stopped. Actually, Aleck stayed there for three years, in particular because he gambled and lost all his money and it’s for that, he stopped write to her because he “couldn’t keep lying to her about the money”. • Still in love. We can see that Aleck is still in love with Constance.

and a private plots in which in one case Hamlet is the Prince seeking revenge on the usurper ‘King’ Claudius and spied upon by the Chancellor Polonius, and on the other hand, Hamlet is a fatherless son whose mother has married his uncle and who is in love with Polonius’ daughter Ophelia. It is the same character, but there are two plots; we might add another dual situation, in which Hamlet is the victim of a man who has murdered his father, but who in his turn becomes the murderer of a man, Polonius

friends (mostly men) is dreaming about it. In platonic love, there’s no sexual activity, but very often there is sexual attraction. I believe that sexual tension is unavoidable between heterosexual opposite sex friends. Yet the most important thing is to have the ability to separate the two categories of feelings, a challenging task in cases when two opposite genders are involved. Sometimes, the distinction may be outright impossible! Actually in a tiny little part of my brain questions are on: “how

“A Very Short Story” by Ernest Hemingway is about the love affair of an ordinary soldier ”he” and an Italian nurse “Luz” during a war (which is probably WWI); and how they disintegrate after the war, how their relationship ends. Although the text is really short, it contains a lot of events. It begins from the first paragraph. In little words, Hemingway instals the background and the characters of his short story : "Luz", an italian forename, "He", "Padua", on the roof of a building. He implies

I'm fine with it. The "marrying for love" argument doesn't hold water for me. Think about it. Marrying "for love" is a recent concept. People used to marry for more practical reasons, such as true compatibility, wanting to start a family, shared resouces, etc. And those marriages (not based solely on love) actually lasted. In today's world, the divorce rate is sky high. Love waxes and wanes. How will a marriage survive this if it is only based on the one thing that is not always constant? People

A Midsummer Night’s Dream written in 1595 or 1596 is a romantic and fanciful comedy where William Shakespeare emphasizes the role and the power of imagination and shows how the feeling of love often derives from unrealistic motives. In a so-called “purple patch”, Theseus, Duke of Athens, often seen as the voice of reason in the play, recognizes, after being told about the mesmerizing night the lovers have spent, “Lovers and madmen have such seething brains_, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend

sentences illusive. As you will see by the variety of translations, I am not the only one who found this to be the case. Two quotes from critics on translating Madame Bovary ....Far from bring extremely difficult to translate, Madame Bovary is actually very easy. For Flaubert's images are definite; he dispenses almost altogether with metaphor; he employed few circumlocutions; he is direct, incisive, and clear. His "style" in Madame Bovary at least, may almost be said not to exit. What he has to