Exam 13: Love

The goliards were

Which of the following brought the idea of the heroine worshiped for her purity to secular literature?

Voltaire's idea that a family is a "group of people who cannot stand the sight of each other" shows

Choose a recent representation of modern love from a film, novel, song, or play and discuss what type of love (courtly, eros, agape, platonic) the work of art seems to embody. According to the work, has loved changed or do the same concepts apply? I. Name a work of art that represents a love affair. II. Identify and explain the type of love depicted in it. III. Discuss love today based on this model.

What does eros mean?

This chapter covers many historical periods in which different kinds of love were practiced and different gender roles observed. Choose a recent representation of modern love from a film, novel, song, or play and discuss how it presents the gender roles in romantic relationships. To what extent does this work show consistency or deviation from traditional gender roles? I. Name a work of art that represents a love affair. II. Analyze the gender roles in the love affair. III. Discuss these gender roles' relationship to traditional gender roles.

Titania's love for the donkey-headed character Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, is an example of

Lorca's Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda both show the tragic consequences of

William Congreve's The Way of the World and courtly love are both based on the "rules of the game." Define the rules of the game and the concept of courtly love in Congreve's work, then lay out the rules of the game for love today. How does love today relate to his play and to courtly love? I. Describe the rules of courtly love. II. Describe the rules in Congreve's play. III. Compile a list of love's rules today. IV. Discuss how today's love rules relate to the rules in the play and to courtly love.

Filial piety is an important feature of

What is platonic love?

For Plato, the highest form of love was

The ancient Hebrews and the Chinese both have distinct models of family. Consider today's families in light of those two traditions. Explain how, in your view, the model of the typical modern family differs from those ancient models. I. Define ancient Chinese and Hebrew families. II. Define families today. III. Discuss how today's families differ from traditional Chinese and Hebrew families.

Describe Mariolatry and its function.

Feminist works of art such as Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles changes concepts of love by

The Song of Solomon in the Hebrew Bible celebrates

Discuss the roles that eros and agape play in the modern understanding of marriage and love. Describe the relationship between the two in a marriage. I. Define the role eros plays in the modern concept of marriage. II. Discuss the role agape plays in the modern concept of marriage. III. Define the relationship between the two forms of love within a marriage.

One of the major literary advances in love of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has been the

A set of aristocratic rules for conducting romance established in the Middle Ages is known as

The myth of Venus and Adonis shows