Platonic love

Ann Landers once said “Love is friendship that has caught on fire, It settles less than perfection and makes allowances for human weakness.” In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins’,the overarching theme is teenage love. The main character is Katniss Everdeen. Katniss and Peeta both fall for each other. Peeta told Katniss that he had a crush on her on the 1st day of school. They both work together on the games. Teenage love can be complicated for some people and by the relationship that Katniss…

about love, its meaning, and purpose. In the speech, Socrates narrates the story of Diotima about love. Diotima is a woman who had challenged Socrates on his understanding of love, ignorance, and comprehension. According to her, love is neither good nor bad. It lies between the good and the bad. Socrates used to assume that love was a good and a beautiful thing. However, Diotima held a different opinion. After the discussion, she makes Socrates confused and doubtful of his thoughts about love as…

“Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you, ' mature love says, 'I need you because I love you, ' ” Erich Fromm. In the case of Harold and Maude, love goes beyond the continuum of our norm in today’s society. With an age gap of about seventy years, lots of people find the film striking and intriguing as an effect of the storyline. Life and death remain bonded by love displayed in a cynical, yet comical way. Contrariwise, is it passion or companionship that is the primary motive of…

Developing intimate peer relationships Mille appears to be having difficulty developing romantic peer relationships,this can be proven through her last love interests ended in misery. Milly also appears to pick men that her mother does not approve of,and who oddly enough always break her heart. However, once her mother eventually intervenes she discovers the love and attention that she has been craving, from not one but two men. Because this is a rarity for her she has difficulty choosing on…

Love is one of the main themes in literature; it is present in the works of all time, from mythology to nowadays. Numerous philosophers’ thought together about this theme without managing to determine it’s meaning. In spite of the difficulty to give a meaning to this term, we know that love is an attachment we carry for someone. However, love takes a meaning when it is shared or lived. Which excludes for example the love of the nature or the love for shopping because there isn’t any reciprocity.…

Love is one of the most profound emotions that we, as human beings, feel in our lives. It is present in the movies and the TV series we watch, in the songs we write or hear in the radio, as well as in the literature we read or write. The importance and the relevance of love as a common topic has been this way from centuries ago. In this paper I am going to analyze the philosophical topic of love by taking into consideration Plato’s point of view, the different types of love and their…

What does it mean to be a friend? We all have that one person that fills our heart with warm fuzzy platonic love, but what makes them so different? The psychological dictionary states a friendship is a “voluntary relationship between people that lasts a long time and those involved are concerned about each other. It develops from shared interests and experiences and is mutually gratifying.” I hope when you thought about your close friends some of this definition applied. Everyone has their own…

Loves comes in all shapes and sizes,some are for a special individual and at other times they’re for a little brother or maybe sister it could be anything or anyone.Not just romantic love love is worth fighting for such as in the case of veterans who went to combat just for the love that they felt for their home. Military men risk their lives each and every day just to make sure what they would be protected at all costs.Platonic love is just as powerful as the love for your partner,it can also…

together and that she “simply adored” Rebecca. This phrasing is particularly important, as earlier Mrs. Van der Hopper says Mr. de Winter “simply adored” Rebecca as well. Within this simple phrase there lies a similarity between the love a man has for his wife and the love Mrs. Danvers has for Rebecca. Another contradiction to the image…

strong but made choices regardless of their fate. What these women endured made me realized that we take granted some of our choices, love friendship and romance. The Epic of Gilgamesh speaks of the use of love more as a control mechanism than romance. Even though sexuality is presented as an important transformational force, the theme of platonic friendship and love ultimately is the more profound relationship in the story. Some scholars have seen homoerotic qualities in Gilgamesh and…