I'm sure you've heard the words, "I love you" more than you care to hear. But what would you consider as to be "love." Is it the Hollywood version, or maybe the Disney definition? Either way, its a central part of the American culture. Love revolves around EVERYTHING. So how does society pin a Webster definition on this particular noun?
Well according to Dictionary.com, love is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. But does this definition fit in today's society or in the imaginary world of Disney? In Disney, Prince Charming rides through the night to save the princess from eternal doom. But today's movies sheds a different definition of love. Take for example the Twilight series. In this particular quartet, love is complicated, it can be full of frustration and depression.The two definitions are foils of one another.
If you hadn't already guessed, definitions can be exemplified by arguments. Society frequently presents their take on a certain subject, like the definition of love. Formal definitions are what you find in dictionaries, whereas operational definitions identify an object by what it does or by what conditions it creates. Arguments derive from either one of these definitions whenever people disagree about what the conditions define. Definitional arguments evolve out of the occasions and conversations of daily life, whether public and private.
So the next time you take a look at an adjective, take the time to realize what the author is trying to present. The world displays a lot of different definitions in their own personal way. It's through these representations that people derive their own definitions of words from their own and other people's experiences.
I like how you used the dictionary.com version of love as a starting point for your blog, it seemed to give it a general area to start because often there are many different definitions of the word. I also like how you used that definition to relate to disney’s version of love, which seems so different from everyone else’s version of love. I also liked how you used twilight’s version of love, which is so clearly different from disney’s definition. Twilight’s version is a serious and devoting love such as between Edward and bella and disney’s version is there are no arguments, no troubles, no problem parents. In the end, everyone lives happily ever after and everyone gets along, which is what children grow up to think this is what real love looks like. As they get older, they realize that love is not so black and white and it is more serious. I think it’s good that we start out with these idealistic views of love because it makes us have faith that one day we will find our prince charming and live happily ever after. Even going through many breakups as we get older, we still hold out hope that we will find that prince charming. If we didn’t have that hope, no girl on this planet would be searching to find their prince charming and everyone would give up after one heartbreak. If we started out with what love really looks like, with all of it’s lies and deceit, we would not even try to find a life partner because we would be too afraid of getting hurt.
ReplyDeleteI think this way a very good blog post. It was very informative, but when talking about love its hard to be strictly factual. I liked how you built off of the dictionary.com definiton of the word love, and went on from there explaining how it can be bent different ways and how its almost too general to have any meaning. You use a good amount of opinion in it, and you really show how you feel about it using a good argumentative technique. I agree that love has drastically changed over the years, but even today love can have a million different meanings. We use it in our everyday lives to tell someone you love them, tell someone you love your meal, or you love a song that comes on the radio. Obviously all of these have different meanings, but all still portray the same concept. We all love things, but love doesn't have a single definition.
ReplyDeleteLove can be as precious as proposing to a wife, telling her you love her, and making a lifelong commitment to her. It can represent something that you feel deep inside you, something that you can't explain in words, just something that you feel and know that the other person feels as well. And at the same time, you can say without hesitation that you love your cheeseburger you had for lunch. Love is a complicated act, almost impossible to define with a single definiton. It is such a diverse word that one definition does no justice to it.
I think you did a very nice job with this blog post. This is a topic that could be debated endlessly but you broke it down quite nicely into a short and easy to read post. I like how you used and cited the source Dictionary.com to give the exact educated definition of the word and to show your readers that you looked into this topic with great detail. Love is one of the most complicated and controversial words used today and the uses for it are endless. It is literally impossible to summarize the word love into an exact definition and I do agree with you that it is crazy that society can pin a Webster definition on the word. I really liked your comparison between the Disney prince charming and the newer and a little more obscure Twilight. This is an example that audiences can relate to which is always a positive when trying to interest today's society. I definitely agree with you that the evolution of movies over the years has changed many peoples views on what love is. In old romantic films the love stories were always the same one guy and one girl fall in love and live happily ever after, but now as time has progressed this has changed drastically. Now in our crazy world that we live in we are at norm with affairs and all sorts of crazy situations that can be considered love. This is just one of those words that will be forever debated throughout society.
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