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or, What the Great Gatsby Taught Us
A common theme in many novels and movies. The recluse who is in love with the woman. She in turn is in lust with another more powerful/wealthy/handsome man, yet does care and generally befriends the recluse who hides his love for the woman. The man with whom she is in lust may either be a decent fellow, or indeed villainous. Queue Hollywood ending: through some type of personal growth (generally assisted by the recluse) she sees the error of her ways and realises she was in lust and the more powerful/wealthy/handsome man is either wrong for her, or has no good intentions. She then realises she actually loves the recluse and was merely blinded by lust for someone else.
Do you believe this type of situation exists in real life whereby a person, man or woman, is so blinded by an idea of another person they've placed on a pedestal (despite the fact that this person does not return those feelings) that they are unaware, or unwilling to accept, that they may love someone else who loves them in return?
The person enjoys spending time with that person that genuinely loves and cares for them, but is unwilling to make them an important piece of their life for fear of losing those strong feelings of lust?
In conclusion: do you think lust can trump, or blind, true love as love may not have the raw initial magnetism of lust - it is something that becomes more fulfilling over time, and indeed takes more effort?
A common theme in many novels and movies. The recluse who is in love with the woman. She in turn is in lust with another more powerful/wealthy/handsome man, yet does care and generally befriends the recluse who hides his love for the woman. The man with whom she is in lust may either be a decent fellow, or indeed villainous. Queue Hollywood ending: through some type of personal growth (generally assisted by the recluse) she sees the error of her ways and realises she was in lust and the more powerful/wealthy/handsome man is either wrong for her, or has no good intentions. She then realises she actually loves the recluse and was merely blinded by lust for someone else.
Do you believe this type of situation exists in real life whereby a person, man or woman, is so blinded by an idea of another person they've placed on a pedestal (despite the fact that this person does not return those feelings) that they are unaware, or unwilling to accept, that they may love someone else who loves them in return?
The person enjoys spending time with that person that genuinely loves and cares for them, but is unwilling to make them an important piece of their life for fear of losing those strong feelings of lust?
In conclusion: do you think lust can trump, or blind, true love as love may not have the raw initial magnetism of lust - it is something that becomes more fulfilling over time, and indeed takes more effort?
