Helen Fisher, an anthropologist that studies gender differences and human emotions,focused on love and lust in this video. In the Ted Talk she shows the differences between the two, and how in relationships women are smarter than men. She talks about a study that she did, she put people through an MRI which showed that loved triggered the same reaction that cocaine does in he brain, you can say that love is addicting. In the Great Gatsby, Jay is so obsessed and in love with Daisy, he makes it his life mission to be with her once again.
Fisher also talks about the differences between romantic love and lust. The Greeks have 4 different types of love. Storge which is affection, the love you have for your family. Philia is brotherly love,the love you feel for your friends and other important people in your life. Agape is unconditional love, like the love a mother has for her children. Also eros, as the lust and the love of material objects and money. In the book i feel like Daisy is materialistic. She has eros love, for material objects and money.On the other hand, I think Gatsby has lust for Daisy not actual love. He wanted to feel the way he did when they first meant, but now with her married and a parent, it should've been apparent to Gatsby that, that life was going to be no more.
After watching the Ted Talk and how it related to the book, it made me realize the difference between love and lust and how both appear in the story. Gatsby is to worried about showing off his new earned money, that he has forgotten that instead of winning Daisy over with talking to her and being himself, that he actually just showing off his new earned money with his big parties and new shirts.
Fisher also talks about the differences between romantic love and lust. The Greeks have 4 different types of love. Storge which is affection, the love you have for your family. Philia is brotherly love,the love you feel for your friends and other important people in your life. Agape is unconditional love, like the love a mother has for her children. Also eros, as the lust and the love of material objects and money. In the book i feel like Daisy is materialistic. She has eros love, for material objects and money.On the other hand, I think Gatsby has lust for Daisy not actual love. He wanted to feel the way he did when they first meant, but now with her married and a parent, it should've been apparent to Gatsby that, that life was going to be no more.
After watching the Ted Talk and how it related to the book, it made me realize the difference between love and lust and how both appear in the story. Gatsby is to worried about showing off his new earned money, that he has forgotten that instead of winning Daisy over with talking to her and being himself, that he actually just showing off his new earned money with his big parties and new shirts.