Essays on Erotic Love

The Perfect Forms

Plato’s theory of perfect forms was meant to solve several problems. Among the problems the theory was supposed to solve were: how could human beings have a fulfilling and happy life in a world where they can lose everything they are attached to, and how the world would be both permanent and dynamic. Plato split existence into two; the material and transcendent realm of forms in order to solve these problems. Plato argues that the forms are transcendent in that they only exist in space and time, they are pure to mean they are separated other properties, they represent perfect ...

In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche gives his criticisms to Christianity. As a philosopher, he presents his school of thought and accuses Christianity as a dogmatic religion with fewer benefits to all the people. This paper critically analyzes his accusations. It does this by giving critical responses in line with the Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Deus Caritas Est. Nietzsche accused the church of poisoning erotic love by converting it into a vice. He uses excerpts from the Songs of Solomon to be a degrading manifestation of conjugal love. To him, Christianity is the worst type of self-presumption in the history ...

Sappho is a household name as far as erotic poetry is concerned. Born in Lesbos around 650 BCE, Sappho stood out as the most celebrated female poet amongst her contemporaries (Scott & Welton, 2008). The main reason why Sappho stood out is because of her unique approach to the explanation of erotic love. Her views of physical love were substantially different from those of her fellow poets, more especially the male ones. Aristophanes on the other hand, is one among the most celebrated speakers on matters of love, sexual intercourse and general erotica. This paper endeavors to explain the differences and ...

The Girl with Bangs

When I read this story, the type of love that I see reflected is Ludus, which considers love as a game. In this love style, one or both the partners have self-oriented approach to love as they minimize dependency and commitment. In this love style, the partners rarely become involved with one partner and often have more than one partner. These partners fail to reveal their true feelings to their each other, especially if they realize that by doing so; they can gain some advantage from them (Smith, 2004). They usually want pleasure from each other and whenever they are ...

In any story there are only three types of conflict, man versus nature, man versus man, man versus himself. In the case of the 1933 pre-Code Hollywood film King Kong however, it seems that all three were used. A quick synopsis of the film can be described within the two of the most memorable lines of the film itself: - When the character Carl Denham (portrayed by Robert Armstrong) speaks to the character Jack Driscoll (portrayed by Bruce Cabot) about the latter’s growing infatuation with the heroine Ann Darrow (portrayed by Fay Wray): “The Beast ...

The musical drama Tristan und Isolde is Richard Wagner’s testament to his power to impart musical dominance. Regarded as one of the best musical dramas in history, Tristan und Isolde has imparted deep influence and inspiration due to its eclectic amalgamation of ideas circling on the realm of metaphysics. Musical aestheticism is the overriding force in the entire drama, the illustration of its overall poeticism being highly reliant on the way its musical scores are composed. The drama imparts its messages through Wagner’s emphasis on the drama’s entire musical agglomeration. Music strongly portrays various character emotions ...