...Lust Not Love In the poem “Sex without Love” the poet Sharon Olds expresses the pure disgust she has for people who have sex without love. She feels that in the heat of the moment it might satisfy their need for love but in the end they just become unhappy once again that they haven’t found that one person to love. Sharon Olds expresses her feelings in her poems by using expressive and unique writing symbols. The first symbol she uses is “How do they do it, the ones who make love/ without love? Beautiful as dancers/ Gliding over each other like Ice Skaters/ over the ice, fingers hooked/ inside each others bodies, faces”. These parts of the poem first starts off where the poet is astonished by the fact people have a strictly physical relationship without any kind of true love. Just the sexual and lustful relationship they express for each other in the heat of the moment where lies the only passion the two have for one another. Another part of the poem, where the poets makes the heat of the moment a little more intense is when she recites, “give them away. How do they come to the/ come to the come to the God come to the”. This represents the two people have come to the climax of the lustful relationship. Where it leads to the end of their loveless relationship for each other and to their loneliness. This leads Mrs. Olds to her next statement, “Priest instead of the God. They do not/ mistake the lover for their own pleasure, / they are like great runners: they...
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...OUTLINE I. Intro A. A human being has two major organs, the heart and brain. B. People make the mistake of confusing lust with love. II. One day in our lives will come that we have to stop for a moment. A. If you happen to skip a heartbeat. B. If you feel like you are lost in desire. III. love is not easy to describe. IV. lust is more of a carnal desire, and it does not rely on any rules. A. Lust can be misread as love. B. Lust can be very selfish. V. Lust can be a water down version of love. VI. Conclusion A. Is it love, or is it lustful feelings? 06 Aug 2011 Page. 1 LOVE Vs. LUST A human being has two major organs, the heart and brain. They are both in conjunction with each other, but not together as for they are distinct individuals. A heart is driven by pure feelings, as for the brain is fueled by bare thoughts. Many people make the honest mistake of confusing lust with love, but I have found a way to differentiate one versus the other. One day in our lives will come that we have to stop for a moment, and make the decision if we are driven by our heart or our brain. On that day we will look on to the eyes of our partner and decide if we are in love or lust. If you happen to skip a heartbeat as you gaze tenderly upon his/her eyes, then you are probably in love. On the other hand, if you feel like you are lost in desire, and crave for...
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...Lust “Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” - James 1: 14-15 Lust can often feel like a feeding frenzy, a strong animalistic urge to obtain satisfaction by any means necessary. Imagine for a moment what a shark must feel once he has picked up the scent of blood and begins to stealthily zero in on his prey, there is a moment of insanity that ensues. It is said that lust is about greed, a resilient yearning to please oneself. An alcoholic who takes his first drink after years of being sober is giving into the thirst, satisfying the urge to drink from the Devil’s cup, the ultimate example of how a weak mind can bend to the uncontrollable powers of desire. This emotion is an intense craving for something, a deep hunger, an insatiable sensation that must be fulfilled immediately. It can also be associated with obsession, for the mind of a stalker is habitually consumed with lust for the object of his affection. A man who secretly dreams of being with his best friend’s wife is a selfish man for he has allowed himself to become weak to the desires of the flesh. Christians consider lust to be sinful because their faith is based entirely on selflessness. They believe Jesus died on the cross to forgive them of their sins and that their purpose is to live life on Earth as righteously as possible. A scripture from Exodus 20:27 says, “You shall...
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...A Literary Criticism of Charlotte Temple Charlotte Temple is a novel written by Susanne Rowson in the late eighteenth century. The novel was first published in England, but was soon published in America having many different editions throughout the years. Charlotte Temple is considered the second American book and was extremely popular during its time of publishing due to its somewhat short length and topic. Charlotte Temple is a story of an innocent and ignorant young girl who is seduced by a man, which ultimately leads to her death. The novella was considered to be somewhat taboo during its time period because of its nature dealing with lust and young love, a prevalent theme noticeable throughout the entire story. The story begins with the introduction of the English soldier Montraville whose attention has been caught by the young woman Charlotte Temple. Montraville describes her beauty to his friend Belcour, who seemed more interested in the idea of a looming war (The American Revolutionary War) than the woman that has caught the eye of his friend. For three days Montraville cannot get Charlotte out of his head and therefore decides to go to her home to see her. After deciding that he should leave and not think of or see her at all, he catches a glance of two women walking in a field. One of the women is Charlotte and the other is her French teacher Mademoiselle la Rue. Montraville later meets up with and bribes la Rue, so long as Charlotte will meet him the next night...
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...1. In this sonnet, the speaker describes many beautiful things, such as, the sun, red corals, white snow, damasked roses, perfumes and music. When imagining these things it makes me feel very positive about something that he is describing, and I cannot help it, but to imagine a very beautiful mistress. As the speaker keeps describing all of the beautiful objects, he goes on and uses all these things to compare his mistress to what she is not, she is the total opposite and far from all of these thing. 2. In my opinion the speaker is a man who does not care very much for any type of attachment to her physical features and has a lust type of love for this woman. The way I come to this conclusions is, for the reason that the speaker compares his mistress to all the beautiful things she is not. As well for the reason that he states in line (11) “I grant I never saw a goddess go” meaning that if she was one like a goddess, he would be much hurt to see her leave. Another example is in line (10) he states, “That music hath a far more pleasing sound” compared to her voice. It almost seams that he enjoys her company but would much rather not hear her speak, and would much rather listen to the sound of music instead of her voice. I can be misinterpreting the message that the speaker is trying to create, but as I keep reading the sonnet over, I can not help but to feel that the speaker only is proud to have a mistress even if he is not completely in-love with all her attributes 3. I believe...
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...ones that went against God. Dante show the symbolism that reflects the sermon that Christ gave to the humans at the top of the mount when Christ said that “I tell you that any man who puts away his wife, except for the reason of harlotry, is making her the victim of adultery; and any man who marries a wife who has been divorced is committing adultery.” That goes to man and woman as well, as it can be seen, not only men are put in the Lustful sinners, women as well are send to there to pay for they sin. Dante explain the difference between lust as the sin, and love as being a sin when not pure, Lust being the attraction to the sensual part of the opposite person toward to a possessive desire of the body. The souls that are put in the 2nd circle of Hell are the Lustful ones, the ones that let themselves been taken by the heart and their love led them to death. As Dante describe “I learned that this place of punishment all those who sin in lust … as the wings of...
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...his destiny. In this complex emotional state, he visualizes words and feelings as color: the gleaming gold of his pride, the dark green depths of despair, and the red fires of lust. He would visualize these colors because of his longing desire to make sense of it all. He has realized that from the sin of lust, all other sins have emerged. Stephen is proud of his status and uses it to justify his sins. His success in school inflates his ego. He lords over people with pomposity and has a golden exterior, but under that thin shell is his sin and insecurity. His golden shell is a façade for his shame and the more he feeds his sin, the more he feels the need to devote himself to religion, as if the two will cancel each other out. Green is the color of the rotten stink that is the dark side of his soul. His mind is split. One side of him is a devout catholic who is excitedly persuing god, but while he is venerating Mary, he is daydreaming about prostitutes and the desires of his flesh. All this is swirling around in a cold swamp of lucid indifference where strange things hide under the dark surface. Stephen is lazy and sloth like, a condition of his mental frustration at the world of temptation. The only light that is provided to his fetid green soul is from the glowing red embers of his lust. Steven’s lust is at the heart of his problems. Perhaps the most destructive and addictive of the sins, it burns unchecked like a wildfire in his life. The warm blaze is temporarily comforting...
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...In English Renaissance drama, the focus on the body is apparent with the female tragic protagonist. Revenge tragedies tap into fears of female sexuality, relating more broadly to issues of to female agency. Women’s roles, their power, and the destruction of their sexual morals can often be linked to the societal and patriarchal control of their bodies. From Annabella from ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore to Gloriana from The Revenger’s Tragedy, control of women’s agency through manipulation of their bodies is profoundly evident. Revenge tragedy is a feminine genre in spite of the fact that the revenge protagonists are usually male and female characters appears to play more passive roles (Findlay 49). It is interesting then that the women of these plays brutally die. In this paper, I will exploring these issues of control over women’s bodies in Renaissance tragedy, analyzing how it effects their agency as free-minded individuals, as well as examining the condemnation it presents of female sexuality. To begin with, in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1633) by John Ford, the female protagonist, Annabella, has an incestuous sexual relationship with her brother, Giovanni. After Giovanni and Annabella make love for the first time, Giovanni reflects on why the losing of one’s virginity is so important (2.1. 1922). Annabella justifies that it is not important to him because he is a man. Here in lies one of the first instances of the sexual double-standard in the play, as emphasis on virginity...
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...for his child. This is a sign of greed. Because of his godfather, the child grows up to become a world renowned physician. He has wealth and fame. Death has given the doctor specific orders in who he could save with his medicine and who he could not. The doctor has been obeyed the rules of Death. One day the king becomes ill and the famous doctor is summoned. Death decides that the doctor cannot help the king with his medicine, but the doctor helps the king anyway. He did this because of the wealth and fame that he would get for helping the king. This is greed. Death forgives the doctor, but warns him not to disobey him again. Then the king’s daughter gets sick. She is very beautiful, and the doctor wants her hand in marriage. This is lust. Death decides that the daughter cannot be saved. The doctor saves her anyway. This makes Death angry. So the doctor is left to feel the wrath of Death. The doctor feels that he can cheat Death because he is Death’s godson. This is not the case. He was lucky that Death let him cheat him the first time. The life lesson that can be learned through this story is you have to be obedient. You have to follow the rules, or there will be consequences. You cannot take advantage of people just because they...
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...The Values of Moral Enlightenment My interpretation of Phaedra, established that the play played on various frenzied feelings in a variety of differing morals called love. A romantic love, between Hippolytus and Aricia. Then there is a love that by law, then and now, one of distortion, and unnatural, and tainted and incestuous love, what Phaedra had for Hippolytus, her stepson,. There then is the love that exists between family members, as it is with Hippolytus and his father, Theseus. There then is a different love that is so fierce, and so protective, I like to call, a replacement of a mother, a shielding love, as the one that Oenone, the aging nurse servant, had for Phaedra. Hippolytus confesses that he is in love with princesses Aricia, of Athens. However, King Theseus has, “decreed that she not keep alive her brothers’ seeds; Fearing some new shoots from their guilty stem…doomed her to be single all her days.” (The Norton, Pg 164) For King Theseus, believes that there is bad blood that runs through the family of Aricia. If Aricia married Hippolytus, or any other man, and had offspring then there will be a chance that bad blood would be passed on to future generations. Therefore, Hippolytus, or any man, cannot and would not go against king’s commands. I believe that true love could surmount all. Like Hippolytus and Aricia’s love for each other, their love brings modesty, truthfulness, and self-denying to each other. Even though the Hippolytus and Aricia will never...
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...Article Review The research article is based on an evolutionary approach to investigate on the topic of why men fall in love more than women. Men are more likely to falling in love if they over perceive sexual interest and physical attractiveness in women. Hence, women have become skeptical in a relationship. First hypothesis shows that men will usually fall in love with most recent partner, love more partners in their lifetime, experience more “love at first sight” and more unreturned love compared to females. The second hypothesis shows that individuals who over perceive others’ sexual interest will fall in love more frequently with chances to experience “love at first sight”. The third hypothesis states individuals who value physical attractiveness will have more partners, fall in love easily with latest attractive partner and more love at first sight experiences. The fourth hypothesis shows that individuals with a higher sexual desire will fall in love easily. The methods used were online questionnaire to both sexes with a sample size of 357. A qualitative research is used in a heterosexual community. Participants are 18-year-old and above. The dependent measures are the rating scale from 1 to 7. The specific measures used are timing of love, frequency of love, frequency of “love at first sight” and physical appearance of the latest partner. In hypothesis 1, the result shows that prediction on timing is not supported as there are no sexual differences between...
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...The word Renaissance literally means “Rebirth” or “Revival”. It was a series of events during 15th and 16th century by which Europe passed from Medieval to Modern civilization. The Renaissance means reawakening of human mind, there was a new spirit of inquiry, of criticism and a passion of scientific inventions. Some of the major features that characterized the renaissance play are... Curiosity of knowledge Spirit of adventure Lust of obtaining power either from hooks or crooks Individualism and worldliness Love of beauty Marlowe himself is the spirit of the renaissance. In the conception of his dramas he is impelled by the renaissance spirit of unlimited powers, unlimited knowledge for the sack of power and unlimited materliastics progress. His dramas also show the love of physical beauty and the desire of fulfilled sensual appetite. He was born on 1564; it was the age of renaissance. So his dramas possess all characteristics of renaissance plays. First characteristic of renaissance that is found in Doctor Faustus is thirst of gaining knowledge. Faustus was presented as a scholar. He was the master of different subjects including science, medicines and divinity. Faustus had a wide knowledge but still he had a longing to increase his knowledge. He renounces god and pact his allegiance to Lucifer only because of his hope of earned knowledge of all universe. He wanted to know till the end. His gluttony of acquiring more and more knowledge leads him to his downfall. Doc...
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...What is passion? Dictionary definitions include "a powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger; ardent love; strong sexual desire; lust; the object of such love or desire; boundless enthusiasm or the object of such enthusiasm; an abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger", and so on. Let's look at passion in the positive sense. Your passions are an excellent indicator of what you are here to do. Before coming into body, we agreed to separation from our eternal selves, so that part can only speak to us through our emotions, saying "yes, that one" or "no, not this way". The more passionate you are on a certain topic, the more likely it is to be part of your assignment. So ask yourself: 1. What do you LOVE? 2. What do you...
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...SHABINE Men are having said to be breadwinners, the ones that bring home the money for their wives to cook meals but not all men are like this. Justine or Shabine as she was referred to by the men that desired her; saw men as devils and sexual predators. Justine even saw them as a way of easy money when she allowed herself to become a prostitute. The way she was physically described was very desirable for a man to lust for. Shabine was wanted by the men and she accepted this and used it to her own advantage. Shabine the men would call her, not having a bit of respect for the woman she was. She saw men as devils or sexual predators who just wanted her body and what she could physically provide them. You could say she built even a stereotype for them, thinking that all the men that she met are the same. In my opinion it was true most of the men that she encountered were just sexual perverts who just wanted “a good time”. Shabine got so used it, she learned to deal with the phrases and shouts said to her by the men who saw her everyday quite casually. In my opinion the only good man she met was the Narrator who proposed to her a life of prosperity but she refused this because she couldn’t get over what all men had done to her. “Shabine makes hungry where she most satisfies”. By rejecting the Narrators offer she accepted being a prostitute. She saw men as a way of easy money, knowing that no man could resist her body. She knew that she could make easy dollars from men by just...
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...Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body A Cliff Notes’ Version Introduction A. The Theology of the Body is the term used to describe the teaching of Pope John Paul about the human person and human sexuality given during his Wednesday Catecheses in St. Peter’s Square between September 5, 1979 and November 28, 1984. John Paul II says that these catecheses could be called “Human Love in the Divine Plan” or “The Redemption of the Body and the Sacramentality of Marriage.” B. Various scholars, in different language groupings, will generally break the theology of the body found in these 129 catecheses down into four main sections, others six. I think the most logical way to do so is to break it down into seven interrelated sections: 1) The Original Unity of Man and Woman as found in the Book of Genesis • 23 catecheses from September 5, 1979-April 9, 1980 2) Purity of Heart versus Concupiscence: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount • 27 catecheses from April 16 to December 10, 1980 3) St. Paul’s Teaching on the Human Body: Life according to the Spirit • 13 catechesis from December 17, 1980 to May 6, 1981 4) Marriage and celibacy in light of the resurrection of the body • 9 catechesis from November 11, 1981 to February 10, 1982 5) Virginity or celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven • 14 catecheses from March 10, 1982 to July 21, 1982 6) The sacramentality of marriage based on Ephesians 5:22-33 • 27 catecheses from July 28, 1982 to July 4, 1984 7) Reflections...
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