Platonic love

True friendship, what does this mean to you? A true friend can mean multiple different things depending on who you are. My definition of a true friend is someone who never leaves your side, they are there for you no matter what. They shouldn't steal from you. They should look out for you. True friendship lasts forever well it should, sometimes you can think that you have true friendship, but later down the road you find out that you didn't.. The internet's definition of a true friend is when…

In Symposium by Plato there is discussion on what love is and for the assembled guests it has different meanings. Many types of love can be seen in Virgil’s Aeneid as well; there is love between people or of the devotion to gods and family (pietas). These types of loves can be described through Diotima’s speech. Diotima defines love as the desire to give birth to beautiful ideas that last forever; she argues that love is not fully knowledgeable or ignorant, and that the soul is more beautiful…

There is a structure in love where everything and everyone has a similarity, a cookie-ness. This cookie-ness could be as simple as everyone being male, female, loving men or women, and so on. In Plato’s Symposium, we learn about the uniqueness of love, the beauty inside and out, and the relationships between younger men and older men. Most importantly, we learn that Socrates is different. He doesn’t play by the rules of the ‘beauty ladder’. This essay will look at the lack of cookie-ness of…

Rielynn is a good friend. She knows how to make someone's day five times better, she always has a smile on her face, and she also knows how to put a smile on other people's faces. Everyday, she is always working hard on running, art, etc. She always is smiling and is in a positive mood. Rielynn is a very consistent runner. She has the determination to get out there and race the best she can race. She may be in pain but with her determination she never gives up. She is one of those friends where…

individual wants. A love that rise after Beowulf is pragma. Similar to agape, this love in unconventional compared to others. This form of love is when affection grows stronger over time. By definition, pragma is defined as "realistic and practical love that is not based on intense physical attraction but emphasizes the conscious search for a compatible partner" (Zeng). The love that requires the individual to wait for the right moment. It can also be interpreted as the love that grows over time…

Jason Klarwein has directed the theatrical masterpiece ‘Much Ado about Nothing’. Klarwein says this play is a beautifully controlled sensual look at love and lust. What people will do to get it and what people will do to avoid it”. The play revolves around romantic love and lust however it also explores the love found within the confines of friendship which is a more powerful and driving force in the play. Tama Matheson and Patrick Dwyer exhibit precise and deliberate control their movements to…

activities for platonic male friends to show affection for each other (Morman & Floyd, 1998). In the post-Freud world of today, these activities would certainly see seen as effeminate and homosexual. However, absent these societal pressures men easily expressed their affection for one another. The social code of the time permitted men to embrace publically. Holding hands as two men strolled down the street was acceptable behavior that would not violate any social norms. Even writing love…

What even is love? Love is a very complicated and difficult to understand thing. Love gives you raging levels of dopamine and serotonin an you just overall feel happy and excited. Love, whether platonic or romantic, makes you do irrational things that you wouldn’t normally do. In the book “Looking for Alaska”, Miles starts smoking in order to look cool with his tobacco addicted friends, Alaska and the Colonel. These kids are juniors in highschool. Miles probably would’ve never started smoking…

have their own role in the story. Lucy Manette is the nurturer archetype, Miss Pross is the platonic ideal archetype, and Madame Defarge is the monster archetype. Lucie Manette is the nurturer archetype because she helps others and is compassionate about it. “Not yet trusting the tones of her voice… as he sat staring at her.” (Dickens 41). She had also cared and listened to Sydney Carton as he expressed his love and thought to her. “’Since the state of your mind that you describe… Have I no…

Love, one of our many goals and desires that we want in life. Some people have already found love, some have not, some have lost it, and some have missed their chance. We fall into one of these category at some point in our life. When we fall in love, in that moment, we are head over heels for our partner. Some people say that their partner is the one and only, or the one that complete them. We have these desire of love at some point in our life, wishing that we have it. Now, if we were to say…