What is love?

LovePlatonic love

- Plato’s Philosophy

- Exasperation of love

Real love- The sonnet to the Dark Lady- Shakespeare-

Cheating in history- Queen Margaret- Henry VIII

Cheating in literature- Gone with the wind

Cheating

Nowadays

(428–427 BC c. 348–347 BC Athens)Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

PLATO

PLATO’S PHILOSOPHY

For Plato this type of love is something spontaneous that inspires the mind and soul. He considered love as something very positive that has the function of purifying the soul. In Sidney's sonnet Stella is something far and unattainable. Astrophel knows this aspect, but he cannot live without her and he is unable to give up his love. Stella is the most brilliant star and Astrophel cannot survive without her light.  This type of love is also present in Romeo and Juliet. It is evident in the declaration of love done by Romeo who describes his beloved with positive images, like the light and the sun.

JOHANN WOLGANG VON GOETHE

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a german writer. Moreover he was an artist, and a politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry.

EXASPERATION OF LOVE• Werther fell in love

with Lotte who is Albert’s lover

• Werther understood that would be an impossible love with her and decided to kill himself, because the pain was too much

• Love leads to death

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

• He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, on April 1564 and he died in Stratford-upon-Avon, on April 1616

• He’s one of the most important english dramatists

• He married Anne Hathaway • He was a member of the Lord Chamberlain’s

Men

• He was first a playwright, and then a poet. He wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.

• The “mistery” around Shakespeare’s origin: is he italian?

REAL LOVE IN SHAKESPEARE

• -Shakespeare wrote 28 sonnets dedicated to an unknown “dark lady”

• -In these sonnets he developed the theme of real love

• -The real beauty is in the eyes of the one who loves

(14 March 1844 – 29 July 1900)He was the King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his death. Humbert was the son of Victor Emmanuel II and Archduchess Adelaide of Austria; he was born in Turin which was then capital of the kingdom of Sardinia 

Margaret of Savoy ( 20 November 1851 – 4 January 1926). She was the wife of  Humbert I . She was the daughter of Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa and Princess Elisabeth of Saxony

KING HUMBERT I

QUEEN MARGARET

QUEEN MARGARET- The scandal

between the duchess Litta and King Umberto I

- The marriage of the King with Margaret

- The betrayals

The scandal: The relationship between Humbert and the duchess Litta

After the marriage:Humbert and his betrayals

During the marriage the King betrayed Margaret with the duchess

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII.

Anne Boleyn  (1501 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England . Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the start of the English Reformation. 

HENRY VIII

ANNE BOLEYN

HENRY VIII

-Henry VIII’s cheating

- Wedding with Catherine of Aragon

- Flirt with Anne Bolene

- Separation from Catherine and wedding with Anne Bolene

- Separation of the Anglican Church

from Rome

The exchange of the rings

Italian and English weddings: how are they different?

GONE WITH THE WIND• Written in 1936• The betrayal of

one’s own feelings

• Summary• Analysis: non-

admition of love; the relationship between Scarlett & Rhett

Diana was the daughter of the Viscount and Viscountess Althorp. (July 1961- 31 August 1997, Norfolk, England)

Charles, Prince of Wales, ( born 14 November 1948), Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

LADY DIANA

PRINCE CHARLES

LADY DIANA

- Diana and Charles

- After the marriage

- Betrayals

- Her death

Diana and Charles

Her first betrayal: James Hewitt

The scandal

His betrayal: Camilla Parkers Bowles

After the divorce Diana had a relationship with Dodi- Al-Fayed

Your love is a lie So don't try to say you're sorryOr try to make it rightAnd don't waste your breathBecause it's too late, it's too late

You can tell me that there's nobody else(But I feel it)You can tell me that you're home by yourself(But I see it)You can look into my eyesAnd pretend all you wantBut I knowI know your love is just a lie, lieIt's nothing but a lie, lieYou're nothing but a lie

Someone like youNever mind, I'll find someone like you, I wish nothing but the best for you, too, Don't forget me, I beg, I remember you said, "Sometimes it lasts in love, But sometimes it hurts instead," Sometimes it lasts in love, But sometimes it hurts instead, yeah,

 

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