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Unusual Tales of Love!

Author: Casey Galatos | Total views: 43 | Word Count: 698 | Category: Relationships | Date: Feb 1st 2007

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'If I caught the world in a bottle
And everything was still beneath the moon
Without your love would it shine for me
If I was smart as Aristotle
And understood the rings around the moon
What would it all matter if you loved me'
-Until,by Sting.
1. Love in the Time of Cholera-1985:
'Love in the Time of Cholera' is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez about a fifty-year love triangle between Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza and Doctor Juvenal Urbino set between 1880 and 1930. The novel, a picturesque tale of unrequited love, deeply explores the idea that suffering for love is a kind of nobility.
Love here is like a terminal illness that plagues the body. it may also be used as a metaphor for an ailment in the form of social irresponsibility. This interpretation describes Florentino Ariza and Juvenal Urbino as oblivious to the realities of society, characters whose selfishness harms themselves and others.
2. Lolita-1955:
'Lolita' is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in Paris. The novel is both famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the book's narrator and main character Humbert Humbert becomes sexually obsessed with a pubescent girl, who is 12 years old when most of the novel takes place.
The novel is a tragicomedy narrated by Humbert, who riddles the narrative with wordplay and his wry observations of American culture. His humor provides an effective counterpoint to the pathos of the tragic plot. The novel's flamboyant style is characterized by word play, double entendres, multilingual puns, anagrams, and coinages such as nymphet. Nabokov's Lolita is far from an endorsement of pedophilia, since it dramatizes the tragic consequences of Humbert's obsession with the young heroine.
Humbert is a well-educated, multilingual, literary-minded European migr. He fancies himself a great artist, but lacks the curiosity that Nabokov considers essential. Humbert tells the story of a Lolita that he creates in his mind because he is unable and unwilling to listen to the actual girl and accept her on her own terms.
3. Arms and the Man-1894:
'Arms and the Man' by George Bernard Shaw, questions conventional values. Its satirical targets are false notions of both war and love. Arms here imply the ammunitions used in warfare as well as the arms of a man, more specifically soldiers.
Set in the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885, it tells the story of a young Bulgarian girl, Raina, engaged to a soldier whom she idolizes and hero worships. Her encounter with a Swiss voluntary soldier in the Serbian army, Bluntschli, changes her hollow ideas of romantic love and her fianc's values. The play concludes with her renouncing her idyllic love and proclaiming her love for Bluntschli.
Something that stands out in the play is the herione's reference to the Swiss as chocolate-cream-soldier owing to his act of carrying chocolates in his pockets and not pistol cartridges. This brings out the practical and dark side of war one often overlooks.
4. Like Water for Chocolate-1989:
A popular novel, it was written by first-time Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. The novel follows the story of a young girl named Tita who longs her entire life for her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her domineering mother's traditional belief that the youngest daughter must not marry but instead care for her parents. Tita is only able to express her passions and feelings through her cooking, which causes the people who taste it to experience what she feels. The novel was originally published in Spanish as 'Como Agua Para Chocolate' and has been translated into thirty languages. The novel makes heavy use of magical realism.
The book is divided into twelve sections named after the months of the year. Each section begins with a recipe of some sort, usually involving Mexican foods. The chapters outline the preparation of the dish and ties it to an event in the protagonist's life.
Love, is different for different people. True love is unconditional, warm, affectionate and everlasting. The one factor that binds them all is the longing and the heart yearning for one's loved one. Love lies not in its fulfillment but in the absence...

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'If I caught the world in a bottle 
And everything was still beneath the moon 
Without your love would it shine for me 
If I was smart as Aristotle 
And understood the rings around the moon 
What would it all matter if you loved me' 
-Until,by Sting. 
1. Love in the Time of Cholera-1985: 
'Love in the Time of Cholera' is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez about a fifty-year love triangle between Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza and Doctor Juvenal Urbino set between 1880 and 1930. The novel, a picturesque tale of unrequited love, deeply explores the idea that suffering for love is a kind of nobility. 
Love here is like a terminal illness that plagues the body. it may also be used as a metaphor for an ailment in the form of social irresponsibility. This interpretation describes Florentino Ariza and Juvenal Urbino as oblivious to the realities of society, characters whose selfishness harms themselves and others. 
2. Lolita-1955: 
'Lolita' is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in Paris. The novel is both famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the book's narrator and main character Humbert Humbert becomes sexually obsessed with a pubescent girl, who is 12 years old when most of the novel takes place. 
The novel is a tragicomedy narrated by Humbert, who riddles the narrative with wordplay and his wry observations of American culture. His humor provides an effective counterpoint to the pathos of the tragic plot. The novel's flamboyant style is characterized by word play, double entendres, multilingual puns, anagrams, and coinages such as nymphet. Nabokov's Lolita is far from an endorsement of pedophilia, since it dramatizes the tragic consequences of Humbert's obsession with the young heroine. 
Humbert is a well-educated, multilingual, literary-minded European migr. He fancies himself a great artist, but lacks the curiosity that Nabokov considers essential. Humbert tells the story of a Lolita that he creates in his mind because he is unable and unwilling to listen to the actual girl and accept her on her own terms. 
3. Arms and the Man-1894: 
'Arms and the Man' by George Bernard Shaw, questions conventional values. Its satirical targets are false notions of both war and love. Arms here imply the ammunitions used in warfare as well as the arms of a man, more specifically soldiers. 
Set in the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885, it tells the story of a young Bulgarian girl, Raina, engaged to a soldier whom she idolizes and hero worships. Her encounter with a Swiss voluntary soldier in the Serbian army, Bluntschli, changes her hollow ideas of romantic love and her fianc's values. The play concludes with her renouncing her idyllic love and proclaiming her love for Bluntschli. 
Something that stands out in the play is the herione's reference to the Swiss as chocolate-cream-soldier owing to his act of carrying chocolates in his pockets and not pistol cartridges. This brings out the practical and dark side of war one often overlooks. 
4. Like Water for Chocolate-1989: 
A popular novel, it was written by first-time Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. The novel follows the story of a young girl named Tita who longs her entire life for her lover, Pedro, but can never have him because of her domineering mother's traditional belief that the youngest daughter must not marry but instead care for her parents. Tita is only able to express her passions and feelings through her cooking, which causes the people who taste it to experience what she feels. The novel was originally published in Spanish as 'Como Agua Para Chocolate' and has been translated into thirty languages. The novel makes heavy use of magical realism. 
The book is divided into twelve sections named after the months of the year. Each section begins with a recipe of some sort, usually involving Mexican foods. The chapters outline the preparation of the dish and ties it to an event in the protagonist's life. 
Love, is different for different people. True love is unconditional, warm, affectionate and everlasting. The one factor that binds them all is the longing and the heart yearning for one's loved one. Love lies not in its fulfillment but in the absence... Article Source: <a href="http://www.articlesoft.com" target="_blank">ArticleSoft.com</a> About the Author: Casey is an avid blogger and writes on foods, travel, events and celebrations and love. She writes on <a href="http://cyber-holidays.blogspot.com/">Celebrating Holidays Everyday</a> and <a href="http://lovegreetingcards.blogspot.com/">Love Greetings and Wishes</a>

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