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Love At First Sight Essay

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We can all remember the Disney movies we were raised with. And we also remember the moment the two main characters gazed upon each other’s eyes and instantly fell in love. Many generations have been raised, most probably subconsciously, with that idea in their head. Yet it is hard to find a real-life couple that are married or going out and are able to truthfully say it was love at first sight. Wouldn’t that just make it a plot device which we can only find in fiction, yet we try to believe in it and make it real, for it is a beautiful lie. The idea of “Love at first sight” in works of fiction was first introduced in Greek plays, and since then they’ve been a common literary resource to make two characters fall in love instantly with no need …show more content…

She stands out against the darkness like a jeweled earring hanging against the cheek of an African. Her beauty is too good for this world; she’s too beautiful to die and be buried. She outshines the other women like a white dove in the middle of a flock of crows. When this dance is over, I’ll see where she stands, and then I’ll touch her hand with my rough and ugly one. Did my heart ever love anyone before this moment? My eyes were liars, then, because I never saw true beauty before tonight.”(Act 1, Scene 5, page …show more content…

“Love at first sight” is a beautiful lie, that we can only find in works of fiction either put in there either by laziness or convenience for the plot. And even though we can see that there is some basic psychologic and biologic involved behind love, at first sight, they are not the far-fetched emotions that appear in many fictional

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