Final Essay: Love
Although they say “love is a feeling”, this might mean that it allows you to feel new things you usually wouldn’t see or feel. In A Brave New World, they’re scared of feeling new things, and seeing things differently, so they don’t believe in love, commitment, or relationships; in fact they cringe at the sound of them. While in A Midsummer Night’s Dream they fall in love, and they get feel new things, and see each other in different ways. The thing about love is when you feel it even just a little bit, you fall, and when you fall, you fall hard. You fall into this well of unknown emotion. I would like to think that love is a gift and a curse; it’s a gift because you might feel or see something new depending on the person. It’s a curse because you might get your heart broken. If you fall too deep into this well of emotion, you can’t get out; while the other person could fall but have a rope to help climb out of the well with. So they leave you, broken, and drowning in this well while they are at the top staring at you...wondering, “why are they still in there?”
In the book Brave New World there are two characters who are both in love with one woman. Bernard and John are both in love with Lenina. Bernard and Lenina live in the Brave, New world while John lives on the primitive reservation. Bernard and John are both in love with Lenina, but she has been so socialized that she gets terrified at the thought, or sound of love, family, or devotion and commitment. This is demonstrated in Brave New World by the characters showing that love is a feeling that may, or may not, allow you to feel and see new things that you wouldn’t normally see or feel. They’re so terrified of the thought of anything like that, that the smallest sound of commitment or family or love makes them sick.
I believe that love in and of itself is an awful thing, but the most beautiful thing at the same time. It’s awful because it’s a prison, you’re trapped with one person and you can’t be set free because it’s something you don’t want to break. It’s beautiful because it’s something that not everyone can get, it’s rare, it’s special. In A Midsummer Night’s dream Lysander says “The course of true love never did run smooth.” I quote this because love never runs smoothly; there are always obstacles, and fights. If you have ever been in love you know it’s not all rainbows and butterflies, it’s hard work. It might seem all happy and blissful at the beginning, but it later turns into a lot of difficulties, and a lot of challenging situations that you need to overcome. When you love someone enough those don’t matter though, “love never did run smooth,” so if you are going through an obstacle, you don’t just give up; you hold it out, and don’t lose heart and know that it will get better. If you’re in love you're not going to want to jeopardize that, because you know that what you have is special. It’s a gift from something you can’t explain. Love is something that you don’t understand, or that you don’t want to understand. It’s something that is portrayed as a feeling or an emotion, while in my opinion love is more of burden. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Helena is so madly in love with Demetrius but she hates him in so many ways.
He hates her, and she loves him because he hates her, and she hates herself because she loves him. She fell in the well and she can’t get out, and nobody's there to help her. It’s something that you have to carry, and you can’t really get rid of it; it’s something you have to deal with.
I say a burden loosely because there are many different kinds of burdens, there is the kind that is emotional attachment to something or someone; there is the kind that is physical attachment to something meaning a drug, or something that is used in recreational purposes, and there is the kind that is just stress, that something stressful is going on and you don’t know how to deal with it so we tend to classify it as stress, which therefore, turns out to be burdensome. I believe that love is a burden because it holds you back in so many ways. The definition of a burden is someone or something that hinders you from something, or that holds you down or back in some way.
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream love is portrayed as something that can be faltered. They have a love juice that is put on someones eyes and it makes them fall in love with the first thing they see. Not only that though, but it can leave something you love so dearly in the dust. You can be so madly in love with someone, then it all go away in a matter of minutes, and you’re in love with another person.
I believe that the idea of love is just something that us as humans created to put our minds at ease; we were scared of eternity alone so we found comfort in others. Love is just comfort, it helps calm your mind to think that you will spend the rest of your life with the person you love. Have you ever truly thought about the fact that there are some things that are temporary, and some that are eternal? If you think about it we believe that love is eternal, when in all reality we don’t know if it is or isn’t. I say this because when you die, what happens? No one knows as a fact what happens when you die. Your soul just might wander aimlessly around the universe for the rest of eternity, you might just be in complete darkness for the rest of eternity, or as Christians believe you go to heaven or hell, but I want to believe that when you die you have an eternity to yourself that you get to create and you choose what happens and who’s in it. In A Brave New World they hate the idea of “falling in love,” they are so conditioned to the fact that everyone shares everyone that the idea of love, or family, or relationships chills them to the bone. While in A Midsummer Night’s Dream they are so in love with each other that it hurts them. There’s love, sacrifice, and lots of drama in the situation. Helena loves Demetrius, Demetrius loves Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander, and Lysander loves Hermia. Helena is so in love with Demetrius that she follows him, and won’t leave him alone, but he despises her; until the forest that is. When they get into the forest and get everything resolved, everyone falls back in love with the right person. This is very different from A Brave New World because in A Midsummer Night’s Dream they’re so in love it makes them sick. While in A Brave New World just the idea of love makes them sick.
Earlier I was talking about eternity; it’s not something our human brains can necessarily understand, but it happens in math; it’s called infinity. In between each number is an infinite number of numbers inside each number, it’s confusing but bear with me. When you look at each little number you start to think that there are infinities within infinities. Take the number 3 for example, there’s 3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, and it goes on forever and the numbers just get bigger. That’s how I think some people look at the idea of love, they have they’re little infinity together, and it’s one infinity within an eternity of more little infinities.
So in conclusion, yes there is such a thing as love, and it does allow you to see and feel and actually experience different things you wouldn’t usually have happen. Although love might just be an idea, it still exists, and it is a powerful thing. So if you just so happen to fall into the idea of love, or the so called “well” of love, make sure you’re not the only one in the well. Because if you aren’t in it alone, you have your own infinity in that well together, so make it last.
In the book Brave New World there are two characters who are both in love with one woman. Bernard and John are both in love with Lenina. Bernard and Lenina live in the Brave, New world while John lives on the primitive reservation. Bernard and John are both in love with Lenina, but she has been so socialized that she gets terrified at the thought, or sound of love, family, or devotion and commitment. This is demonstrated in Brave New World by the characters showing that love is a feeling that may, or may not, allow you to feel and see new things that you wouldn’t normally see or feel. They’re so terrified of the thought of anything like that, that the smallest sound of commitment or family or love makes them sick.
I believe that love in and of itself is an awful thing, but the most beautiful thing at the same time. It’s awful because it’s a prison, you’re trapped with one person and you can’t be set free because it’s something you don’t want to break. It’s beautiful because it’s something that not everyone can get, it’s rare, it’s special. In A Midsummer Night’s dream Lysander says “The course of true love never did run smooth.” I quote this because love never runs smoothly; there are always obstacles, and fights. If you have ever been in love you know it’s not all rainbows and butterflies, it’s hard work. It might seem all happy and blissful at the beginning, but it later turns into a lot of difficulties, and a lot of challenging situations that you need to overcome. When you love someone enough those don’t matter though, “love never did run smooth,” so if you are going through an obstacle, you don’t just give up; you hold it out, and don’t lose heart and know that it will get better. If you’re in love you're not going to want to jeopardize that, because you know that what you have is special. It’s a gift from something you can’t explain. Love is something that you don’t understand, or that you don’t want to understand. It’s something that is portrayed as a feeling or an emotion, while in my opinion love is more of burden. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Helena is so madly in love with Demetrius but she hates him in so many ways.
He hates her, and she loves him because he hates her, and she hates herself because she loves him. She fell in the well and she can’t get out, and nobody's there to help her. It’s something that you have to carry, and you can’t really get rid of it; it’s something you have to deal with.
I say a burden loosely because there are many different kinds of burdens, there is the kind that is emotional attachment to something or someone; there is the kind that is physical attachment to something meaning a drug, or something that is used in recreational purposes, and there is the kind that is just stress, that something stressful is going on and you don’t know how to deal with it so we tend to classify it as stress, which therefore, turns out to be burdensome. I believe that love is a burden because it holds you back in so many ways. The definition of a burden is someone or something that hinders you from something, or that holds you down or back in some way.
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream love is portrayed as something that can be faltered. They have a love juice that is put on someones eyes and it makes them fall in love with the first thing they see. Not only that though, but it can leave something you love so dearly in the dust. You can be so madly in love with someone, then it all go away in a matter of minutes, and you’re in love with another person.
I believe that the idea of love is just something that us as humans created to put our minds at ease; we were scared of eternity alone so we found comfort in others. Love is just comfort, it helps calm your mind to think that you will spend the rest of your life with the person you love. Have you ever truly thought about the fact that there are some things that are temporary, and some that are eternal? If you think about it we believe that love is eternal, when in all reality we don’t know if it is or isn’t. I say this because when you die, what happens? No one knows as a fact what happens when you die. Your soul just might wander aimlessly around the universe for the rest of eternity, you might just be in complete darkness for the rest of eternity, or as Christians believe you go to heaven or hell, but I want to believe that when you die you have an eternity to yourself that you get to create and you choose what happens and who’s in it. In A Brave New World they hate the idea of “falling in love,” they are so conditioned to the fact that everyone shares everyone that the idea of love, or family, or relationships chills them to the bone. While in A Midsummer Night’s Dream they are so in love with each other that it hurts them. There’s love, sacrifice, and lots of drama in the situation. Helena loves Demetrius, Demetrius loves Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander, and Lysander loves Hermia. Helena is so in love with Demetrius that she follows him, and won’t leave him alone, but he despises her; until the forest that is. When they get into the forest and get everything resolved, everyone falls back in love with the right person. This is very different from A Brave New World because in A Midsummer Night’s Dream they’re so in love it makes them sick. While in A Brave New World just the idea of love makes them sick.
Earlier I was talking about eternity; it’s not something our human brains can necessarily understand, but it happens in math; it’s called infinity. In between each number is an infinite number of numbers inside each number, it’s confusing but bear with me. When you look at each little number you start to think that there are infinities within infinities. Take the number 3 for example, there’s 3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, and it goes on forever and the numbers just get bigger. That’s how I think some people look at the idea of love, they have they’re little infinity together, and it’s one infinity within an eternity of more little infinities.
So in conclusion, yes there is such a thing as love, and it does allow you to see and feel and actually experience different things you wouldn’t usually have happen. Although love might just be an idea, it still exists, and it is a powerful thing. So if you just so happen to fall into the idea of love, or the so called “well” of love, make sure you’re not the only one in the well. Because if you aren’t in it alone, you have your own infinity in that well together, so make it last.