Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Erotic Love and Happiness: Homer, Virgil, and Tolstoy. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 3 page paper which examines of erotic love can bring happiness as seen through Homer’s “The Odyssey,” Virgil’s “Aeneid,” and Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.” No additional sources cited.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAerhmr.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
human condition and as such is often the study of literature and various forms of entertainment. However, in many cases literature and other works demonstrate that erotic love is not
something that will lead one to experience true happiness. The following paper examines this theme in Homers "The Odyssey," Virgils "Aeneid," and Tolstoys "Anna Karenina." Erotic Love and
Happiness Erotic love or passion in Homers Odyssey is something that Ulysses seems to avoid in his journey home. He is, at one point, on an island with a beautiful
goddess Calypso. She had kept him trapped on her island and when she was approached by a messenger of the gods to release him she was passionately angry, stating, "You
gods...ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You are always jealous and hate seeing a goddess take a fancy to a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony"
(Homer V). However, it was her lustfulness and desire that kept him there, not his willingness to be there. She agrees to release him and finds him on the
shore, "with his eyes ever filled with tears, and dying of sheer home sickness; for he had got tired of Calypso, and though he was forced to sleep with her
in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may have enjoyed a
passionate and lustful time with the goddess, indicated by the fact that he had "tired" of her, we see that he has truly realized erotic love could never satisfy him
and bring him happiness. He knew he had to return home as he sat "weeping, crying aloud for his despair, and always looking out upon the sea" (Homer V).
...