Someone praises love

Some people emphasize the pain of love

Some even try to imagine a society where love is strictly prohibited

Over the centuries, human understanding of love has changed dramatically

Passion is dangerous, love can lead to endless pain

The effects of physical desires are often devastating and tragic

Peter Paul Rubens

shakespeare

People are not responsible for their own tragic passions

External forces, anthropomorphized gods, playing with people for entertainment or to satisfy their own physiological needs

Although Christianity was prevalent in Europe, secular and erotic themes began to permeate poetry

"Why not have fun"

"My Heart Is Wandering"

The most famous secular writer of the 14th century

"The Canterbury Tales"

With the decline of the Middle Ages

Possibly the most popular love story of all time

Let people see the tortured side of love

The philosophy of hedonism is widely recognized

Contains many stories from India, Persia, Arabia and other places

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

"The Rubaiyat"

In the 18th century, societies on both sides of the English Channel focused on elegance.

"The Marriage of Figaro"

"Don Giovanni"

Greek

Greek

Christianity

Often understood as the opposite of sex

A group of wandering poets in the Middle Ages

"New Inn"

One can fall in love with anything as long as it provides aesthetic pleasure

For Plato, the highest form of love is the love of beauty

But few people can truly withstand the hardships of climbing

Originally referring to an ideal relationship between two compatible souls, which may have begun with physical passion but later moved to higher intellectual and aesthetic dimensions.

It can also refer to a person's love for ideas or works of art, or the pure love for physical beauty.

In common usage it simply means a romantic relationship without sex

family

Arthur Miller

Tennessee Williams

J.K. Rowling

reason

Federico Garcia Lorca

Laura Esquivel

The tragedy of daughters under the control of strong matriarchs

john steinbeck

Respect parents

Henry James

For the Chinese philosopher Confucius, honoring parents is the most basic value

Aristotle didn’t talk about love, but he believed in friendship

An epoch-making stage play

workplace comedy

buddy comedy

The reason why it is loved by the audience may be because it eliminates to a certain extent people's uneasiness about the gradual disappearance of the nuclear family.

Spiritually close to a super-kinship relationship

Traditional family unit consisting of father, mother and children

Grandparents used to be included, but this is no longer possible

Traditionally used to describe the blood relationship between people

Friendship that replaces blood ties

Yet the ideal of romantic love still exerts a strong influence on human life

The cult of the Virgin gave rise to numerous artistic expressions and continues into secular literature

At the same time there was renewed interest in Plato's theory of love

Popular stories about King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table

Thomas Malory

Chivalry and the code of conduct of chivalry are the ancestors of many etiquettes today.

A well-bred lady is born to be pampered, and men are her slaves

Specially written about love topics

"This is the Way of the World"

Spencer Tracy

Katharine Hepburn

Desire for an unattainable lover is a common feature of romantic love

Romantic love stories often feature the death of one or a couple of lovers

Richard Wagner

sexual or non-sexual love

The most important thing is the tender feeling and the desire to stay together, not to satisfy personal desires.

Worship of the idealized Virgin Mary by late medieval poets and painters

This worship not only exalted Jesus' biological mother, but also led to an increase in the status of women in the upper classes and among the clergy

A genre of fiction that originated in the Middle Ages

Originated from France

A form of entertainment pioneered by the wife of King Louis VII of France

In the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, a set of man-made rules that governed the mating behavior of the upper classes.

The division of parts in long poems such as "The Divine Comedy" is similar to the chapters of a book

Marriage is not only the goal of life, but also the shared responsibility of men and women

Georges Seurat

The way society defines the rights and responsibilities of men and women, especially in marriage.

Presented by Thorstein Veblen

Originally the right of a husband (but not his wife) to have sexual intercourse before or during marriage

This system is an accomplice to gender inequality

Love alone is not enough in life

A girl is waiting for the prince to arrive

Shows the flexibility of the institution of marriage

The combination of love and illness has a long history in the humanities

How to overcome society’s (and their own) assumptions about how people over 60 should behave

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

They are all dystopian

utopianism

All people have the right to choose, which includes the freedom to define love