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In three pages this paper considers the forms of desire Ovid depicted in Metamorphoses and explores if love is simple or complex for Ovid and his characters. A customer-supplied source is used and therefore bibliographic citation information is incomplete.
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great interest in all types of desire. For him, desire represented passions that could take a variety of different forms. These desires could be for anothers body, for
ones own self, or for an image or ideal. Ovids exploration of love throughout Metamorphoses bears little resemblance to the happily ever after that is present in most fairytales.
The many characters in this text experience some manifestation of love, but it seldom if ever ends happily. For example, the god Jove spends a great deal
of his time raping young girls and impregnating them despite his marriage to the jealous goddess Juno. His desire for their young nubile flesh has more to do with
exerting dominance or control over them than it has to do with love. There is a sense Jove loves Juno, but this in no way curtails his violent acts
of infidelity. During one of their more lighthearted moments, the couple playfully banter about which gender receives the greatest pleasure out of sex - the male or the female.
Jove remarks, "You women get more pleasure out of love / Than we men do, Im sure," but Juno disagrees, saying it is the men who achieve the most
satisfaction (Ovid 1276). The couple decides to allow the sage Tiresias to settle their argument. After all, he has experienced love in both male and female form,
and so who better to referee this marital dispute? Tiresias sided with Jove, confirming that women enjoy sex more than men. This so angered Jove that she permanently
blinded Tiresias. Having the character Tiresias draw this conclusion reveals much about Ovid. He seems to be suggesting men frequently engage in aggressive sexual encounters that are
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