Dramatic Listening... The Podcast Where You Learn English By Listening To Radio Plays

Photo by Bigstock Photo: PHOTOCREO Michal Bednarek"I deduce you live somewhere below, and I know you own a cat which is named, quaintly enough, Ambrose, but where do we go from there?" What is a Hostage of Love? "Hostage of Love" is a romance, a love story. Can love take you hostage? A hostage, after all, is someone who is taken captive and used by their captors to negotiate deals to get whatever it is that they want. The hostage's freedom has been taken away from him. That doesn't sound much like a love story!  In this story, we don't have a hostage taking, but in English, we use the word hostage in another way as well. A hostage can be a person who is controlled by something else. It doesn't have to be a 'bad man' that controls the hostage. You might be a hostage to something or of something, like love. So a hostage of love is someone who is overpowered by strong feelings of love. Their emotions control them more than their rational mind. They make choices based on their emotions instead of making the best