...Is Love Really Blind? In our lives we all fall in love one day or another. That love can be painful or grateful. Sometimes, love blinds us. Blinded is when you don't see or hear anything besides your own opinion on situation. Blindness also caused by our own thinking, if we do not want to feel hurt, we start thinking that everything is great and everything is going the right way. We tend to not see outside world besides our own imagination in which everything is perfect. . So what is the reason that people don't seem to see outside world and tend to shut their ears when they hear their best friends telling them the real truth not what they put or imaging in their heads? Is it fear or are we trying to prove some sort of feeling, than what is that feeling? When my best friend would tell me about my relationship, I would just shut my ears and tell her that this is not really what she thinks it is. It's different, she would than ask ok fine than tell me what it is. I never wanted to think about it until one day, I saw with my own eyes and no one had to explain to me nothing, I understood everything that was going around me while I was pretending and not wanting to listen to other people. If I didn't listen to anyone than why would I want people or friends listen to me? You try to help your friends and open their eyes. Just like me, friends don't want any advice or help they want to think what they are thinking and not let anyone get into their thinking. It really bothers...
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..."Love is patient and kind, it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited, it is never rude or selfish, it does not take offence, nor is it resentful. Love takes no pleasure in others’ sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end. There are three things that last: faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love." When you love, you love with your body, with your heart, with your mind, but not with eyes! As Shakespeare said , “Love is blind!”. Love is deaf! Love makes the world goes round! Firstly, when somebody is in love you can feel it. People who fall in love are just like the sun. You can see the sunrise and the sunset in their eyes, in their heart, everywhere! They are blind! They can't see people around them, but just the one they love. They are deaf! They can't hear people gossiping or saying bad things, but just lovely whispers. Love takes you to the heaven and makes you kinder, more beautiful. Secondly, love doesn't need colours or sounds! Love is beauty, love is music! It's imposibile to find a defect in something that is perfect .Love is perfect! The one you love is perfect for you! You don't need eyes or ears to see and to hear this. Just look carefuly in you heart, listen to it and when your mind will tell you ''He is the one” , that means he is the one! To love means to live! When your heart is empty, you can consider yourself...
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...Love is Blind, Among Other Things “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a comedy by William Shakespeare set in and around the city of Athens during a time when the belief in the existence of magic and magical beings was not outrageous. The characters used form a wide variety of social classes from royalty to the lowly working class which helps to show that the affects of love are not confined to any specific group of people, but that everyone is equally afflicted. Helena is one of the four young lovers depicted in this play and has a unique perspective on love by being the only female who does not have a suitor. Shakespeare uses Helena’s first soliloquy at the end of act one, scene one, along with the play itself to help solve some of love’s more mysterious questions such as: why people love others who do not love them; why people fall in love with certain people; and why people fall in and out of love. Why is it that some people love others who do not love them back? When Helena is following Demetrius through the forest while he is trying to find Hermia and Lysander, Demetrius constantly berates Helena, telling her that he does not love her “I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.” (2.1.188) and that it sickens him to look upon her “For I am sick when I do look on thee.” (2.1.212). Helena, feeling Demetrius’ scorn, continues to follow him and profess her love for him “The more you beat me, I will fawn on you.” (2.1.204). The logic for why she follows him cannot exist in the mind...
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... Communication is Key Communication is when someone gives or receives from another person information about that person's needs, desires, perceptions, knowledge, or affective states. Human beings need to communicate in order to share and makes other understand their sense of self and awareness of who they are. Expressing and listening others self-concept are essential for successful relationships in any area of our lives. Raymond Carver, an American short story writer and poet, was always concerned with the ways in which human beings communicate or fail to communicate with each other and how that affects people’s lives. Carver found the way to express this concern through stories such as “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” and “Cathedral”. He presents situations where the characters of these stories had difficulties communicating their feelings. Caver is known for his distinctive and well...
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...blindly optimistic protagonist takes to reunite himself with his love in the novel Candide. This sanguine character, Candide, witnesses and endures many highly exaggerated events related to philosophy, war, religion and love, created by the author to satirize blind optimism and illustrate to the reader how it blurs people’s perceptions of life, producing adverse effects. Voltaire heavily derides adhering to and holding sacred philosophies without thinking about what they truly mean. Pangloss, the professor in the story, acts as a source of much of the blind optimism for other characters, preaching “metaphysico-theology-cosmolo-nigology” (20). Voltaire exaggerates this title by giving it a name with an...
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...1981. It tells a tale about a man’s first encounter with a blind individual. The old blind man, Robert, is a close friend of the narrator’s wife, so when the Robert comes over to spend the night, the narrator reluctantly acts inviting. In the beginning, the narrator is very reserved, but by the end of the story, the blind man and the narrator share a personal experience that causes him to become a less judgmental individual. Throughout the story, the author changes the view that the reader has of the narrator through the development of his character, exposing his biases, and creating an epiphany at the end of the story. Before this epiphany occurs, the narrator’s morals and characteristics are presented at the beginning of the...
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...home. The old friend, Robert, is a blind man. The narrator statement at the very beginning of the story explains his own lack of knowledge on physical blindness, and his disrespect behaviors. Through working together with the blind man, the narrator finally understands the meaning of accepting other people as they are. However, the conversation among the narrator, the wife, and the blind man that make up the whole story is perceived. The blind man dispels many prejudiced expectations that the narrator has. The story creates different expectations from the narrator and draws the reader from a sorrowful feeling toward the...
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...the play, unfortunately leads to his minor downfall that luckily enough for him, leads to a rise in his confidence and eventually eternal power. Firstly, Albany is blind to the schemes and greedy ways of his evil wife Goneril because he possesses so much love for her and is unable to see past this deceiving appeal that he has for her. Albany is unable to see what his wife is doing to the king and quite frankly is unable to do anything about it because he is powerless compared to her. When Albany is finally able to break out of his shell and see what is happening around him, he says. “I cannot be so partial, Goneril,...
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...though Daniel eye balls were removed due to cancer when he was a toddler he never saw himself as blind. Daniel learned at a very young age to make clicks with his tongue to understand where he was in space at any given time. Although Daniel 100% blind he moved through life as a seeing person. He attended regular schools, walk long distances, climbed trees, attend college and also do the amazing task of riding a bike. Daniel was able to go through life without the limitations of being a blind man by learning echolocation at very young age. To echolocate, Daniel learned to click his tongue sending out sound waves from his mouth and when the sound waves hit an object they produce echoes. This is the same concept that bats use to get around and that is how Daniel got the name Batman. Daniel was able to persevere because his mom refused to put limitations on him. In fact the mother was told by doctors and family that she needed to wrap Daniel up in some cotton as a toddler so that he would not hurt himself. However Daniel's mom chose to not limit him and let him learn things on his own as a seeing child. As Daniel encounter other blind individuals he realized they were very limited in how they moved through life and he want to help children that were blind to use echolocation so that they too can go life without limitations however Daniel and his college came to a great stumbling block love. Parents were very skeptical to give their children the freedom that Daniel's mom gave him. One...
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...revolves around the interactions of a blind man, named Robert and a husband of the blind man’s friend. The story opens with the narrator’s wife telling him that her blind friend is going to be visiting. She knew this blind man because she had worked for him “one summer in Seattle ten years ago” (Carver 299). As readers, we get the impression, that the husband feels superior to the blind man because he is able to see, because he continues to say this visit “was not something he looked forward to” (Carver 229). After, the wife stopped working for the blind man she kept in touch with him through audiotape. One day, the narrator’s wife let her husband listen to one tape, but when he heard his own name on the...
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...forms of love. Some are powerful and demand attention while others are more subtle and just below the surface. In recent years, love has drifted from these subtle levels to the more noticeable ones, namely passion. In my opinion, our society downplays the real necessity for genuine affection. By this I mean that we, as a society, spend so much time focusing on only one level of love (passion) that we tend to neglect and not recognize the need for closeness and trust (friendship). Love is an all-encompassing emotion that can be powerful and demanding, but also rewarding and pleasurable. What is the one emotion that has everyone mystified? What is the one emotion that has started as many wars as it has ended? What emotion has had more plays, songs, and stories written about it than anything else? Love, that one emotion that makes enemies into friends and friends into enemies. So many legends surround this emotion, from the goddess Athena and Helen of Troy to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. *-(* George Sand *)*- Love is the greatest gift we can ever hope to give or receive. Love is the one thing that can overcome so many of the difficult times that we are faced with in life. Love is so powerful - it can turn frowns into smiles. It can help mend the most broken heart. It can even turn all of the ugliness in the world into the most beautiful portrait we could ever have the pleasure to behold. Love comes in...
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...Love can transform one's life. Weather its valuable or atrocious. When we often fall in infatuation we are blind to the world around us. In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare four couples fell in love. But not necessarily all unwise. All of the main characters are in or desire to be in a romantic relationship. Lysander and Hermia are the two lovers that can not be together. Demetrius and Helena are acquaintances but, Demetrius can not stand Helena. He is in love with Hermia, who does not feel the same. The story turned around right about when Lysander and Hermia decide to go away in the woods to Lysander's aunt's house. That is when there preposterous destiny began. In the play there is an fairy couple. The couple...
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...name Institution Summary Raymond Carver gives a story of a blind man who his wife met during her singlehood but during their relationship. His name was Robert. Robert who was going to pay a visit to their home courtesy of his wife. Robert is a blind man from Seattle who Raymond’s wife had been working for ten years ago. Raymond’s wife had seen an advertisement on a newspaper of a blind man who needed to assisted in his office in reading of documents such as reports and studies and since she had no job and was in need of money she contacted the man and was immediately taken for the job. During this period Raymond was in a relationship with his girlfriend who they had been friends from their childhood days. Raymond was in a military training therefore he had no money hence this gave the girlfriend a reason to look for a job. After summer period ended Raymond’s girlfriend was back and then they married. She did part with her employer who then married Beulah. Robert had lost his wife who they had lived inseparably for eight years. This time he had paid a visit to his wife’s relatives and then decided to visit his old friend who had once worked in his office as a secretary. Her work was organizing the office and reading the documents to the man. They communicated through tapes which they mailed to each other. Raymond was not passionate about blind people since he had not interacted with them. He says that he only saw them in movies and he did...
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...Analysis of the impact of love and jealousy A separate peace is filled with both love and jealousy, but really analyzes a friendship between two people known as Gene and Finny. Jealousy can destroy one and others around them and if one let their jealousy turn into bitterness and hatred it can eat them alive and make them become a person that was never thought possible. Love can also make one person blind to other people's actions and make them very gullible. In the very beginning Gene reflects on his time at Devon. He describes Devon as a cage and reminisces about the times he had there. In one line he says, “Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence” ( Knowles, 3). This quote shows the impact of how places or events can cause...
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...It seems ironic that both the oldest characters, Gloucester and Lear, who are blind either metaphorically or physically. They both exemplify that wisdom does not always come with old age. The parallel characters are very important to each other, Lear who is blinded metaphorically, and Gloucester who is physically blinded. Both characters undergo radical changes and their once sightless decisions become regrettable actions. They are unable to see people for who they truly are; thus their tragedy is the journey they must endure to regain sight. It is clear that although, Lear can physically see, he is blind, and lacks understanding, insight and pure intentions. It seems that the characters who had and kept their “healthy eyes” throughout the entire novel, could see both the evil and distorted world with which they live in. Ironically, while characters such as Gloucester, whose eyes were physically seized from him, and metaphorically Lear, both can now recognize their true selves. Blindness is not only a physical impairment for Gloucester and a forced lesson for King Lear ,but also a mental defect that some of the characters possess. They both share the inability to see the other characters true-selves ,and can only “see” the surface of things. Shakespeare uses Lear’s inability to see with his heart and Gloucester’s vulnerability to portray one of his themes, blindness. In the beginning of the play, Lear is seen to be a vain, conceited old man. He sees age as an opportunity to...
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