the nature of love theme
The emotion of love and associated activities are pondered from a philosophical perspective.
23 total · 2 choice · 9 major · 12 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| futurama5x5678 | choice | The whole story was a big parody on human romance and in the end someone commented on the nature of love. |
| tz1985e2x11b | choice | The story ended with the point that true love is enduring commitment that only older people can understand and that young people are ignorant of. |
| movie: Brave New World (1998) | major | John Cooper did a solo performance of Romeo and Juliet, among other things, in an effort to introduce the concept of romantic love to a society where this concept had been hammered out of peoples heads. In general, we saw a society where people had been conditioned to completely disassociate love from the act of sexual intercourse, and people had copious amounts of loveless, but pleasurable sex. |
| movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | major | The film used two lovers having their memories erased and then meeting again to explore what it means for people to be in love, warts and all. |
| movie: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) | major | Petra and Karin debated what love and romance are |
| play: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600) | major | the story arguably satirizes love and the silly things lovers (and madmen) get up to |
| play: Candida (1894) | major | Eugene is a poet and philosophises and rhapsodizes about what love is |
| play: Misalliance (1910) | major | Misalliance is an ironic examination of the mating instincts of a varied group of people |
| talesoftheunexpected6x13 | major | The conclusion of the story seemed to be that if you scrutinize your lover closely you'll find plenty of disagreeable things. |
| tng4x25 | major | Data's ability to have a relationship is explored |