Is it truly possible that something with such profound meaning, such poetic sense and such heroism in its history, can be reduced to nothing more than just empty words echoing through the overwhelming silence of loneliness, but motivated by what appears to be more duty rather than sincerity? How is it then possible that such heroism is turned to nothing more than a pedestrian thought? The answer is simple...The answer is clear. But the answer is not always the truth that we're willing to face, because it's reality is too far from the fantasy we naively created all by ourselves.
In Shakespeare, we learn that bringing down the face of a hero, is as simple as pointing out its flaws. This does not make him an antagonist...no, it makes him less than what we thought before. It simply makes them an anti-hero, the kind of hero with no heroic qualities of note, but still, a hero nonetheless. But it's not the anti-hero who falls so far from grace that should concern us, as much as the hero, who in his own believable pretence, built a pillar of virtues that never really were his to begin with.
Yes, the way you bring down the greatness, the poetry and the heroic luster of something as profound as Love, is by pulling back the curtain and exposing it for all its impurities. And it is then that you learn that Love not only breeds Love and Happiness...no...Love too often decides to also breed Contempt.
In Shakespeare, we learn that bringing down the face of a hero, is as simple as pointing out its flaws. This does not make him an antagonist...no, it makes him less than what we thought before. It simply makes them an anti-hero, the kind of hero with no heroic qualities of note, but still, a hero nonetheless. But it's not the anti-hero who falls so far from grace that should concern us, as much as the hero, who in his own believable pretence, built a pillar of virtues that never really were his to begin with.
Yes, the way you bring down the greatness, the poetry and the heroic luster of something as profound as Love, is by pulling back the curtain and exposing it for all its impurities. And it is then that you learn that Love not only breeds Love and Happiness...no...Love too often decides to also breed Contempt.
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