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.