{"id":19200000,"date":"2016-11-23T14:59:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essayshark.com\/blog\/?p=19200000"},"modified":"2023-03-17T11:53:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T11:53:23","slug":"essay-sample-about-love-norwegian-wood-and-the-ambivalence-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essayshark.com\/examples\/essay-sample-about-love-norwegian-wood-and-the-ambivalence-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay Sample about Love: Norwegian Wood and the Ambivalence of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"es-post-paper\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>What kind of a love story is presented in the Norwegian Wood?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Norwegian Wood&#8221;<\/em> depicts love in a rather unconventional and complex way, playing on the duality physical\/platonic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first half of the novel, love seems to be defined in a broad, platonic manner. First, we\u2019ve got the \u201ctypical\u201d relationship, between Kizuki e Naoko, which actually appears to be extended to Watanabe, forming some sort of affective triangle, though, we\u2019re told, Kizuki and Naoko are particularly close, being really each other\u2019s soulmate. This is no mere love affair, however. The relationship seems to be way more profound, almost transcending the realm of the physical. Even after Kizuki\u2019s suicide, this affective plane is kept solid between Naoko and Watanabe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Something begins to develop in this story when Watanabe and Naoko get closer, this time physically, revealing the asexual nature of the relationship among the three guys when Watanabe finds out about Naoko\u2019s virginity. Despite this, however, following Holden (2012) here we could also suppose that Naoko\u2019s sexual unresponsiveness might have been the very cause of Kizuki\u2019s suicide, but there doesn\u2019t seem to be much ground for this assumption throughout the rest of the novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Midori comes in the story, we\u2019re faced with an opposite scenario. Unlike Naoko, Midori is a vivid, outgoing character, whose presence and personality speak to the senses and Watanabe gets easily attracted to her. The boy is caught between a dichotomy, unable to take a decision. The two girls, we might say, represent the two faces of love and, in a wider sense, two opposing forces that Murakami stages throughout the book. A psychological dimension, which seems to grow static and crystallized, indeed symbolically confined to a sanatorium and a physical, breezy level which flows through the character of Midori and attracts Watanabe in her energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Watanabe, under the suggestion of Reiko, decides to give a chance to Midori, Naoko commits suicide, definitively withdrawing from the realm of the living. Nonetheless, the girl lingers in the novel, actually slowly fading rather than missing abruptly, as she continues to haunt Watanabe\u2019s heart (\u201cI once had a girl \/ or should I say she once had me\u201d as they go, not by chance, Beatles\u2019 lines in <em>\u201cNorwegian Wood\u201d<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a lot of hesitation and regret, eventually, Watanabe chooses to dedicate himself more seriously to Midori, like an affirmation of life against death. The girl, however, leaves us with an enigmatic question: \u201cWhere are you know?\u201d, perhaps as a final incitement on what we just discussed, namely if Watanabe is on \u201dthis\u201d side of love (and life) or not, on the side of past, the dead, the tricks of the psyche and platonic affections, or on that of the present, the living and the full spectrum of the senses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Works Cited<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winterton, B. (2001). Exploring the Map of One&#8217;s Inner Existence. Taipei Times. Retrieved from:<br>\nhttp:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/feat\/archives\/2001\/01\/07\/68847<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holden, S. (2012). Young Love as Divine, but a Perilious Insanity. New York Times. Retrieved from: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/06\/movies\/norwegian-wood-from-haruki-murakami-novel-review.html?_r=0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pollack, A. W. (1993). Notes on &#8220;Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)&#8221;. Soundscapes.info. Retrieved fom: http:\/\/www.icce.rug.nl\/~soundscapes\/DATABASES\/AWP\/nw.shtml<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><div class=\"es-post-quote\">This essay sample about love was posted to help college and academic students in their writing. The paper was written as an analysis of the <em>Norwegian Wood<\/em> book. Don&#8217;t try to present the essay as your own &nbsp;to your instructor not to be accused of cheating. Try to write your own paper basing on your knowledge background and research skills. Good luck with your academic papers!<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of a love story is presented in the Norwegian Wood? &#8220;Norwegian Wood&#8221; depicts love in a rather unconventional and complex way, playing on the duality physical\/platonic. In the first half of the novel, love seems to be defined in a broad, platonic manner. 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