Personal Description Theories of Character and Characterization

19 In the passage above explains that love is the power in life, it express that feeling of someone. Human being is not live in the reality without love because love drives everything in life. It is like that love is the driver in people‟s life that drives to the future. There are three components of love that can be defined as follows: Figure 2.1 Stern berg‟s Triangle of Love 1986. T he “Triangle Theory of Love,” was developed by Dr. Robert Sternberg, a Psychologist at Tufts University. According to this theory, love has three components: a intimacy, which encompasses the feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness one experiences in loving relationships; b passion, which encompasses the drives that lead to romance, physical attraction, and sexual consummation; and c decisioncommitment, which encompasses, in PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 20 the short term, the decision that one loves another, and in the long term, the commitment to maintain that love.

1. Intimacy

This can be defined as a feeling of being friend. The friendship or specialness of the relationship or we can know as feelings of closeness, connectedness, trust, and friendship in the relationship.

2. Passion

This is kinds of excitement or energy of the relationship and the feelings of physical attraction, romance, and arousal particularly sexual arousal in the relationship.

3. Commitment

This includes all the shared investments, or the “history,” of the relationship, such as decisions, experiences, and adjustments. Passion tends to develop very quickly in relationships and intimacy tends to increase somewhat quickly at first, then tapers off, growing more slowly for a time before finally leveling off. Commitment always starts at ground zero and increases over time for the duration of the relationship. The three components, then, can produce seven types of love: 1 Liking or Friendship = 1 Intimacy Only No Passion or Commitment. It is like having intimacy with one another, feeling close, and trusting one another. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI