Romantic Love the Best?
So a Twitter friend of mine has a research paper on whether or not Romantic Love is the best kind of love. Tough subject but not impossible. She’s having a hard time getting it started so, I want to illustrate how to get a tough research paper topic started. I began thinking “who in history can answer this question for me?”. Well, right away Mark Antony and Cleopatra came to mind as the ultimate couple in love. So I look up their story and here is what I find…Seems that Cleopatra was a bit of a hussy and really wasn’t that into Mark Antony. She completely used him. So here is my opening paragraph as to whether Romantic love is the best kind of love, based on historical fact:
Romantic love is one of the greatest feelings one can have but it is not the best kind of love there is. Romance can cloud the mind and even change the course of history, as Mark Anthony discovered when taken in by the Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Cleopatra VII of Egypt was the most powerful woman in the world eclipsing all of her namesakes that had come before her; no small feat since her name was commonly used by her Ptolemaic ancestors, who were originally Macedonians. Born in Egypt in 69 B.C. the third of six children, she and her five siblings were in a life-and-death competition for the throne of Alexandria. To spare her life, she made the Great Caesar fall in love with her and ruled Egypt with him. When Egypt was threatened by Octavian and Mark Antony, Cleopatra worked her romantic majic on Mark Antony and, intuitively knowing how easily impressed he could be, she answered his summons to appear in Turkey by assembling the most splendid display of wealth possible, making the most fashionable entrance of the history of the civilized world. Romance novelists could not possibly have written a story more passionate or tragic. Upon seeing her entourage, and passing some time in her company, Antony fell completely in love with her, so in love that he fathered three children with her and bequeathing parts of the Roman Empire to her kingdom to split among their children. Romantic love led these men into the spider web of Cleopatra; romantic love clouds the mind and falls short of purity and goodness of true love.
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