Eternal love
Love has always been one of the major themes in Literature since the beginnings of times. Representing such a superb and caotic exaltation of emotions, 'love' is a concept that most writers have intended to define. In his "sonnet 116", Shakespeare states that true love is an eternal, sincere, intense and never-changing devotion felt towards another person: Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, [...] love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. (lines 1-12) The same idea of an everlasting fondness is created in Pablo Neruda's poem, "Amor" : ...Como sabria amarte, mujer, como sabria amarte, amarte como nadie supo jamas! y mas. ( lines 10-15 ). Regardless of times, love has inspired people's souls during their lives; for, anybody is capable of doing anything for love. However
, a human soul may also react in a terrile and drastic way if it is under the mysticism of love. In Milton's original epic poem, Paradise Lost as well as in Emily Brontė's romantic novel, Wuthering Heights , the main characters experience a similar forceful passion that goes beyond this world; nevertheless, it is this strong spiritual connection that will either provoke magnificent or disastrous consequences in Adam and Eve's lives and in Heathcliff and Catherine's respectively. Moreover, in these lines, Adam admits that she is part o f him so he will be by her no matter what. Because of this, they are both expelled from God's Paradise and have to experience feelings such as lust, shame, guilt, anger, dispair and finally repentance. However, it is 'love' that saves them; for, in earth, they are lonely but hopeful and they still have one another to face what remains of their lives together. Love is represented as an important element that plays an essential role in these character's lives. Both, Milton in Paradise Lost and Brontė in Wuthering Heights project a definition of love which is expressed through Adam, Eve, Heathcliff and Catherine's actions. I believe that Milton as well as Brontė describe true love as an eternal force the same as Shakespeare:
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