Love Through the Ages

POEM: RED

PLAY: BLUE

PROSE: ORANGE

TOP 10 QUOTES

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE- MILLER

•  “There is too much love for the niece.” (Alferi to Eddie)

ROOM WITH A VIEW-FORSTER

• The world would be happier, if she could give and receive some human love. (Lucy) 

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

• F: ‘Do you know what the definition of insanity is? ... It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.’  (Frank to April)

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE- MILLER

• B: “You want somethin’ else Eddie, and you can never have it!” (Beatrice to Eddie)

1984- ORWELL

• ‘If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love’ (Winston reminiscing about his mother)

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD:

• “The hell with ‘love’ anyway.”

THE INVENTION OF LOVE- STOPPARD

• (Love) “is like ice held in the hand by children”

THE HELP- STOCKETT

• He kissed me so slowly… everything inside me filled up with light. (Skeeter)

THE MILLER’S TALE- CHAUCER

• ‘And pleyeth faste, and maketh melodie' (Nicholas)

1984- ORWELL

• ‘If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love’ (Winston reminiscing about his mother)

unconditional & conditional love/love & imperfection

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD- YATES 1961

(April to Frank)

• A: I love you when you’re nice
• F: Don’t say that. Christ’s sake, you don’t “love” people when they’re “nice”. 
• F: You either love me or you don’t, and you’re going to have to make up your mind.

(Frank to April)

• F: ‘Do you know what the definition of insanity is? ... It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.’
  

(April’s letter to Frank)

• “… your cowardly self-delusions about ‘love’ when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt and distrust and a terrible sickly dependence on each other’s weakness”

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE- MILLER 1955

• Alferi: “There is too much love for the niece.” (Act1):

Forbidden love, unconventional and incest

• Beatrice: “You want somethin’ else Eddie, and you can never have it!” (Act2):

Forbidden and unrequited love