Write a 5 page essay, on your choice of topic on any of the following pieces of literature or movie
Optional topics include: divine love, familial love, sapphic love
Edrich’s Love Medicine
Plato, Symposium
Solomon’s Song of Songs
The Love Songs of Sappho
“Brother Sun, Sister Moon”
Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love
Dead Man Walking
Simone Weil,
Waiting for God
(“Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies,”
“The Love of God and Affliction,” And “Forms of the Implicit Love of God”
Joseph Marshall, “Love” and “Compassion” from The Lokota Way
“ Wings of Desire”
“Beginnings,” “Strips,” and “Endings,” from Outside Lies Magic
“Fried Green Tomatoes”
Book I of Montaigne’s Essays
Dante, La Vita Nuova
Love in the Western World
Oscar Wilde, “The Nightingale and the Rose”
