Through his book entitled the pleasures of love, Robertson Davies throws himself into the arena of love where everyone always has an opinion. He presents succinct views on love and why the pleasures that come with love should not blind people. The view of loving with the brain and not with the heart appears to have been exemplified in his book pleasures of love. Robert Davies holds that common sense in love matters should be allowed to reign. This advice comes because of an observation he made on relationships that people had. He observed that when so many people are asked what they valued the most in love, almost all confirmed that it gave them pleasure.
A deeper probe made him conclude that the pleasure that came with love blinded so many people and therefore denied an independent mind to look at things with a mind free of too much emotional influence.
Davis observes that this is probably why most of such relationships fail in the long run because the pleasures are not likely to be forever but will indeed be shadowed by seasons of gloom and sadness. However, because sadness does not mix well with pleasure, situations of sadness bring intense pressure on the foundation of such love relationships hence leaving them spoilt.
His position is that while many people believe that love is blind, people should strive to remain visionary even as they enjoy the pleasures that come with being in love. We write several of excerpts like this and put them on our site. From there, many people are able to access them, compare our perspective with theirs and generally become more informed on such literature reviews.
