“To be human is to love, but love is the most painful thing of all.” Love portrays itself as a gift as well as a trap. Some relationships are happy and healthy, and the couple interacts well together. Other relationships are full of lies, where the man and or woman do not act like themselves. In the end, true love can grow a bond and create bliss between a man and woman, or tainted love can ruin the couple and cause them to go separate ways. In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, the authors reveal love in two very different ways. Throughout literature, love reveals itself as both a bond of happiness, and a spoiled tie between two completely opposite people.
Love’s first ability is to create a joyful togetherness between two people. In the novel The Alchemist, a young shepherd boy by the name of Santiago falls in love with a girl named Fatima.…show more content… Nora and Torvald Helmer, a married couple with three children, have a tainted love full of lies between them. Torvald becomes extremely ill, and to pay for medical expenses Nora receives a loan from a banker named Krogstad. Nora keeps this deal of loaning from her husband, and always asks him for money as a present to put towards paying off the loan. She tries to be an aid to her family, when she really adds to the secrets being kept between the family. Torvald, on the other hand, views himself as the superior one in the family. Along with his three children, he also treats Nora just like a child. He plays with her like a doll, and entices her to do whatever he says. “I was your lark again, your doll, just as before – whom you would take twice as much care of in future, because she was so weak and fragile. Torvald – in that moment it burst upon me that I had been living here these eight years with a strange man, and I had borne three children” (Ibsen
