Samson and Delilah Along With Other Historical Couples

Samson and Delilah or should I be calling them “The Lust Machine” and “The Seductive Biatch”. One of the greatest lovers in the books of history? I think not ! I haven’t the slightest clue as to why they are even considered so.

Samson didn’t love Delilah like no other man has ever loved a woman. He was just enticed by her and was boastful, irresponsible and stupid. She wasn’t the first woman in his life either; she was just a woman he claims to have FALLEN IN LOVE with (along the way). A woman from the enemy troops the Philistines, possibly a vine woman, could have even been a harlot (who knows).

This wasn’t the first time Samson was driven by lust and acted irrationally, there is a similar instance where he is enticed by his first wife who too is a Philistine (but since it wasn’t a case between life and death, he probably brushed it off his memory) Silly Owl ! He burns the woman and the father raw just because she was married off to the best man since Samson abandoned her a few days after the wedding. How does he find this out, while making a visiting just in order to sleep with her. Such anger and destruction coming out of an undisciplined bunch of lustful emotions huh? That isn’t the end, his willy was so outa control that he ends up with a harlot from the city of Gaza just before his encounter with Delilah.

Please, how naïve and stupid can a man get? Doesn’t he ever learn from his past lessons? This guy amuses me to a greater extent than any other Biblical character has ever managed to. He merely takes the physical strength he is blessed with for granted, and decides that he can break all the rules he pleases and never be defeated. He appears to be a man who posses a immature brain, underdeveloped cluster of emotions which he has no control over and a puffed up ego to spice it up with. A mixed up, ruthless, scatterbrain who doesn’t seem to have got his priorities straight, tell him to save Israel from the Palatines, he goes chasing lasses to wine and dine with.

As for Romeo and Juliet - Yeah, sure it’s a moving love story, some versions actually make you cry, but yet, logically thinking, both of them were stupid. All they had to do was freaking run away. Added to their only misery, which was stupidness, they are been blessed with several encounters with an equally dense monk who marries them off, but does nothing else to make the relationship actually work (at least teach them the art of eloping). What was Shakespeare thinking?

Napoleon and Josephine – Why did she let him marry another if she loved him that much, and most of all why did he agree to? It is said that they couldn’t bear the separation. Oh boy, didn’t they know that they didn’t have to? Who said that true love was about sacrificing love for the sake of a crown. Plain materialism!

Robin Hood and Maid Marian – So close, but yet so far. Why couldn’t they be together? Her impatience or his coldness? Why didn’t she wait? If she knew for sure he would come for her, why did she have to make all our lives miserable and veil herself? Oh, and why did he run around doing errands that had nothing to do with either of them if he loved her so much?

Anthony and Cleopatra – Lets not even go there. They are even known as “history’s most extravagant and flamboyant lovers”. Critiques could go on about how the whole play (which actually elevated their place to where they are today) is about Shakespeare trying to make us understand about the true nature of love. Nonsense ! I see the Roman General and the Egyptian Queen as two ambitious and vicious dominators, who accidentally got infatuated on the way. More like addicted and bound by lust for each other and nothing more than that. They probably killed themselves in the end when Mark Antony was defeated, since they both knew they had no hope of life (with or without each other). Antony ends his life by falling on his sword and Cleopatra by letting a poisonous snake bite her (how ironic).

Lets hear what the Bible has to say about Love (any kind of love that is). But I believe that the purest form of love can only be found between a man and woman whose love has no boundaries, where they don’t hold anything from each other, their own flesh, let alone their souls. (Criticize me if you may, saying that the same bond is shared by a mother and a child, but I say no, they don’t).

“Love is very patient and kind,
Never jealous or envious,
Never boastful or proud,
Never haughty, selfish or rude.
Love does not demand it’s own way.
It is not irritable or touchy.
It does not hold grudges and will hardly ever notice when others do it wrong.
It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out.
If you love someone you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost.
You will always believe in him,
Always expect the best of him (and)
Always stand your ground in defending him.” - (1 Corinthians 13: 4-7)

I don’t consider any of the above couples to be great lovers. None of them could stand the test of time and if it doesn’t stand the test of time, then it wasn’t going to stand at all.

(Whilst verifying some facts from the father dearest, I happen to ask him why they did what they did, just so that I’d know how he thinks. Wasn’t I amused to hear what he said. “ Child, they were in love. Love is blind and makes people do the dumbest things possible”. I’ve my doubts if he’d tolerate me acting all dumb just because I’m in love and use the same words he spoke to evaluate my irrationality).

Note : Do check out my new poem at http://gobblezygookspoems.blogspot.com which is something relative to all the twaddle I’ve been ranting about.