20th century Yan blog

I've never thought too hard about love and what it means, I just assumed it was pretty much like all the other emotions, similar to happiness, sadness and whatnot. However, after reading through The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, it made me think much harder on this topic due to it being a main part of the plot as well as being "present" (more accurately, talked about) in almost if not all the characters in the novel. I first realized love is not exactly an emotion, so got me thinking: "what really is love?" Is it a feeling? perhaps an action? or something entirely different? The Oxford dictionary describes the word "love" as: "an intense feeling of deep affection." Even the official definition of the word is quite broad and confusing. Even with just affection, there are many different ways of showing it. In the novel, different characters treat love...well more like intimacy, differently. From Cohn towards Brett, Jake towards Brett, Rom...

During the in-class discussion on The Stanger  by Albert Camus on the seventh of November, we talked about a topic that was incredibly fascinating to me, we concluded that Meursault was one hundred percent guilty when he shot and killed the Arab man and should at least be punished lightly, but the question became when exactly Meursault became guilty? or to be put more broadly, when is anyone considered guilty and no longer innocent? I have concluded that there are three times a person can become guilty: when they decide on committing the crime mentally, the act of committing the crime, and finally, the one that actually matter in society, being declared guilty in court.  When a person decides they will be committing the crime, I believe already in that moment they are no longer innocent. Obviously, there will be no consequences to this, as no one have been harmed and no crime have actually been committed, but just by thinking about it and putting it in your conscience in my op...