RESEARCH PROJECT
*What defines a good strong crush for you personally? How does it make you behave/act? (i.e. I lock myself in my room, I kill animals, I buy lots of breathmints etc. The more examples the better!)
*How would you define a good strong crush in general, not specific to you?
Have you ever had a strong crush on someone you've never spoken to?
*When you are infatuated with someone do you prefer the company of others or yourself?
When you are infatuated with someone do you feel high most of the time or low? Do you feel something else entirely? What?
When you have a strong crush do you generally try to repress those feelings?
Do you tell people about it or keep it to yourself?
*Can people you know tell that you have a crush without you having to tell them? Can you tell with anyone you know?
Do you believe in love at first sight? Why or why not?
Is lust a type of love?
Here's an abridged abridged version of the scene in Trolius and Crisyde where Trolius, after seeing Crisyde for the first time falls into the depths of infatuation hell:
"Devoting himself to the thought of Cressida...Troilus...became the very slave of love. He set at
naught every other charge, but to gaze on her as often as he could; thinking so to appease his hot fire, which thereby only burned the hotter...love deprived him of sleep, appetite, he pretended he was sick to allay suspicion...Bewailing his sad lot, ensnared, wishing that he was dead, and praying ever that his lady might give him kind look, Troilus is surprised in his chamber by his friend...Troilus pitifully beseeches his friend to leave him to die alone, for die he must, from a cause which he must
keep hidden."
After reading this, do you believe that Trolius's reaction to Crisyde resembles at all what your reaction to crush would be or have been?
Is Chaucer's idea of infatuation/love at first sight archaic or obselete in your opinion? Why or why not?
Is it realistic?
Is this a concievable way for a guy to behave?
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