Nature's love and its complexity
Nature's love is tender, intense, and satisfying. Because of its personal and intimate nature, it is unsuitable for scientific study. About the differences in each person's emotions, different psychologists have developed various definitions in which love can be classified. When intimacy is involved in dating, scientists usually find it difficult to describe.
The power of love and its different types
Love has the power to heal. It can be divided into three types: filial love, platonic love, and romantic love. Platonic love is sexual love in which sex is the foundation upon which persons love one another. Romantic love represents relationships in a variety of contexts. Jobs and sexual partnerships are included in romantic love (Minghella, A., 2012). Filial love involves doing various chores. The little that can be said about love is what is gathered through observations of how individuals relate. Most researches have great interest of what pioneers the states of love.
The complexities and tragedies of love
The love stories in the ancient times used to include sad scenes in the end. The current love stories go successfully unless they include a child suffering from strange illnesses in the stories. The author in the English patient brings the feelings in the ancient love stories including the suffering the various characters in the story undergo in the name of love. Love can be very passionate but becomes doomed at the end. Some forms of love are even forbidden. This paper shows that love can be just as destructive as war basing on Katherine and Almasy’s love story in The English Patient.
The complex relationships in The English Patient
Almasy is the protagonist to the novel, The English Patient and acts as the main channel through which the whole story relies. He is badly banned in a plane crush and ends up being nursed by Hana. Almasy and Katherine were flying with a plane over Egypt. The plane was heat by Gunfire and went down. The plane had many passengers. Some died while other were seriously injured (Hudson, R., & Walmsley, J, 2005). The casualties from the plane end up to be patients of Hana who was a twenty years old nurse who had lost most of those whom she was with in relation. She fell in love with Kip who used to defuse bombs during the World War II. She has passion in helping individuals who are injured. She even helped a thief who had one been amputated as result of his behavior. May be wars make individuals to love one another more since they do not know when they would eventually lose the. Despite being in a relationship with Kip, Hana, and Kip distance, themselves since they are both committed in doing their work.
The forbidden affair between Almasy and Katherine
Almasy got attracted to a married woman Katherine and had affair with her. Katherine had at one time approached him and asked him to cherish her. Katherine character is not clearly understood. She felt guilty after having passionate affair with Almasy yet she is the one who went for it in the hotel room. Katherine was married to a young well-nurtured man who was a British explorer. Katherine’s Husband was Geoffrey; he was wealthy and had a great connection to those who are wealthy in the world. In her affair with Almasy Katherine says, “KATHARINE: Love. Romantic love. Platonic love. Filial love. Quite different things, surely?” Katherine is highly learned lady who knows various kinds of love and wanted to distinguish the love she had for him was different. She thought the relationship between the two was a platonic love. They were just meant to engage in one another through sex alone. Almasy does not understand the adjectives that Katherine uses to describe love (Minghella, A 2012). Almasy falls in love for Katherine and feels jealous when he sees Katherine with her husband. The platonic love takes heights and the two decided to go for a geological exploration. All the forms of love are expressed in the novel. Almasy love Han because she takes care of her. Almasy expresses platonic love saying, “ALMÁSY: I think you've got the wrong end of the stick, old boy.” The love expressed at this is a love of the father to the child. Hana is in love with Almasy but not romantic love. She takes her as a friend with who situations have brought them together. The love between the Almasy and Katherine was the main cause of the plain crush. Geoffrey discovered about the affair that was going (Bošnjak, A, 2016). He was so much broken that he even wanted to crash his plane into that of Almasy. However, he missed to get his revenge and died in the crash. The death of Geoffrey resulted from love. His love for Katherine made him jealous to the extent that he could not let her go. He opted to die but not to see them together.
The tragic ending and the sacrifices made in the name of love
Katherine was also in the crush and she was seriously injured. Almasy kept her in the Cave of swimmers with food and water. Later Almasy went to the nearest village to sort for help. Though Almasy had survived all the misery that was brought to him through love, he chose to die. Hana gave him morphine overdose. Hana read to him the last words that Katherine wrote for hi while she was dying in the cave.
References
Bošnjak, A. (2016). The question of identity in Michael Ondaatje’s „The English Patient “ (Doctoral dissertation, University of Zadar. Department of English.).
Hudson, R., & Walmsley, J. (2005). The English patient: English grammar and teaching in the Twentieth Century. Journal of Linguistics, 41(3), 593-622.
Minghella, A., Minghella, A., Ondaatje, M., Seale, J., Zaentz, S., & Yared, G. (2012). ENGLISH PATIENT, THE.
