The difference in the words love and fancy can lead to many contrasts when they are brought about in a story. In this case, we have two books, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Canterbury Tales from which we extract our examples. These two books show many cases where love is expressed, like Lysander and Hermia, from A Midsummer Night's Dream. They also show how fancy can take over a relationship like The Wife of Bath and her three "rich, old husbands," from The Canterbury Tales.
One of the truest loves we encounter in these two novels comes from Lysander and Hermia. Even as Hermia's father, Egeus, forbade their love, they held onto their true feelings for each other. Lysander stood for what his heart told him, by questioning both, Egeus and The Duke Theseus. "I am, my lord, as well derived as he, As well possessed; my love is more than his; (If not with vantage) as Demetrius; And which is more than all these boasts can be, I am beloved of beauteous Hermia." (Pg. 7) Egeus wanted his daughter to marry Demetrius, even though Hermia did not love him or envy him as she did Lysander. Hermia was ready to take her punishment if she did not marry Demetrius. "You can endure the livery of a nun, For aya to be in shady cloister mewed, To live a barren sister all your life."(Pg 5) Both of these two lovers promised to stand by each other, and they made a decision together, that they would ignore both Egeus and Theseus, and they would disappear to be married w!.
here no one could harm them. "There gentle Hermia, may I marry thee, and to that place the sharp Athenian law cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me, then, Steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night." (Pg. 8). .
Lysander and Hermia are able to show their love instead of their fancy because of what they are willing to give up for one another. Hermia was willing to go against her fathers will, and run away to marry a man he did not see fit for his daughter.
Love has always been a natural phenomenon. ... It is only now that we are manipulating love. ... The most embarrassing thing that people do nowadays is that they use fancy pick-up phrases or lines. Back then, people let love take control of them. ... Will this end the true meaning of love? ...
He often reiterates the point that people have to be more realistic, open minded, and compromising when it comes to friendships because flights of fancy don"t often hold up to the harshness of reality, "Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fiber of the human heart... ... However, he does say that people should not underestimate the awesome power of love, and that love can conquer all. ... Her parents fell in love and have stayed together even in the face of prejudice, racism, and social strictures. ...
Love, ladies And Gentlemen, Is Not In The air. There is No "Love Train", "Love Town", or "Love Shack", and As I"m certain Many Women can assure you, Love Never "Grows where Rosemary Goes". ... Love is In our Heads - Nowhere else. ... That Love Is Not an Innocuous, Genial, Beautiful Thing - But Rather, That Love will, Eventually, Drive us all mad. ... Then the ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from th...
In the beginning of the play the Duke was in love with Olivia; Olivia was in love with Cesario; and Cesario is actually a woman named Viola who is in love with the Duke. ... O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou"! ... Viola protest about the Duke, saying, "After him I love more than I love these eye's, more than my life, more by all mores . . ." ... Olivia was madly in love with Cesario, but unfortunately for her Cesario was really Viola who was in love with the duke. ... Or I am mad, or else this is a dream: let fancy still my sense in lethe sleep; if it be thus to dream, still ...
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is an extraordinary masterpiece by T.S. Eliot. Eliot may possibly give us the essence of twenty-first century poetry. Through the "Love Song," Eliot expresses exuberant writing technique via random comments deposited together. Certainly much of what he writes is...
Is love real? ... Should you scoff at the teen who claims that they are in love is the equivalent of mocking the face of love itself. ... I remember many flights of fancy and momentary lapses of consciousness followed by standing in my only pool of lust-slobbering drool. ... Teen love is very real. ... To be loved and to give love is a wonderful thing, but to explore and get a taste of life is also greatly beneficial. ...
In the end, "luxury defined" means having fancy rims will allow you to have a hot and fancy girl. ... Implying girls like fancy rims because they wear fancy jewelry which matches the rims. So the reader will want to buy the rims just because girls will want a guy with fancy rims that match her jewelry rather then a guy with hubcaps. ... In television and in music today we see and hear how much influence a fancy car has on one's love life and confidence level. ...
