is thinking about and what is playing inside the characters’ mind to show that each
other has his own way of thinking is given by the author. The character can also
be described through the description of his mannerism, habit, or way of thinking.
2.2.4 Love
Regan 1996, pp. 4-5 in his journal categorizes love, which becomes its characteristics, into three basic components and illustrares it in a triangle which
consists of intimacy, passion, and decision or commitment. The intimacy component is the primarily emotional or affective in nature and involves feelings
of warmth, closeness, connection, and bonds in the love relationship. The passion component is motivational and consists of the drives that are involved in romantic
and physical attraction, sexual consummation, and related phenomena. The decisioncommitment component is largely cognitive and represents both the
short-term decision that one individual loves another and the longer term commitment to maintain that love.
Lewis, Amini, and Lannon 2000, pp. 5-6 define love as the bond that holds society together. It is a string that connects a person to another person.
Although people may not realize it when they talk to another person, when they do any kind of activities with other people, they do it because of love. People can
have fun doing any kind of activities with other people because they love it. Love is not just the focus of human experience but also the life force of the mind,
determining our moods, and stabilizing our bodily rhythms. The bodys physiology ensures that relationships determine and fix our identities. Love makes
people who they are, and who they can become.
In addition, Fromm 2006, pp. 1-29 explains that love is an art which people seek to achieve interpersonal union. People understand that he is a weak
and ugly creature when they are alone therefore they seek interpersonal union. Interpersonal union can strengthen people and make them confident. Therefore,
love has become the most fundamental passion which becomes the force that keeps the human race together.
Love always implies certain basic elements which are care, responsibility, respect, and knowledge. Care is the active concern for the life and growth of that
which we love. Responsibility is a voluntary act to response to the needs of another human being. Respect is the concern that other person should grow and
unfold as he is. Knowledge is the concern to deeply understand a person. Each of above elements is supporting each other and constitutes the definition of love.
Defining love is not that easy. Love is a word with many connotations and everyone has their own interpretations. According to James 2010, p. 2 love is a
universal experience and everyone will have different love and different way to love someone
.
Love itself is mysterious, magical, complex, difficult, and inspirational.
Therefore, People may have their own interpretations of love because the feeling that they have is different from one to another and the
experiences about love that they have is different from one another.
2.2.5 Mother’s Love and Father’s Love
