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Is Carmilla Capable Of Experiencing Human Love Summary
Amie Schwellenbach
Eng 201
Response Paper 2
July 13, 2010

Is Carmilla capable of experiencing human love?

I personally do not believe that Carmilla is Capable of feeling human love. Throughout the story, Carmilla spends a great amount of time talking about love and her ideals of love- even claiming that Laura would die for her because of the love they feel. There are also two lines in the first part of this story that stick out to me. The first one being “You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish;”. In my opinion, love is the least selfish emotion there ever was (or can be). When you’re in love, the only thing you care about is the other person. You stop caring about yourself, because your main goal in life
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