Platonic love

¨And love is not a victory march, It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.¨ I want to meet Leonard Cohen. I want to ask him why love broke him. I want to know why it froze him. His words intrigue me. And they have resonated as anthems for numerous people throughout the last few decades. I have heard of the differences in the types of love but mainly I think people would agree love is either romantic or platonic. But do people really know the definition of love? Do I even truly know the…

falls in love, goes off to war bathing in her memory, only to come home to find that she had married a rich man while he was gone. Hearing this, you may feel bad for this man, but Jay Gatsby reinvented himself to be a man that he believed his love, Daisy Buchannan, would love in return. However, this wasn’t the first time Jay Gatsby had reinvented himself in a better image. To quote "The Great Gatsby", chapter 6, "The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic…

Hamlet, love intertwines itself into the plot as a powerful theme. Love is defined as an intense feeling of deep affection. Many characters throughout the play are motivated by their desires and emotional attachment to another character. This is most prominently seen through the protagonist, Hamlet. Although, construed as a beneficial, pleasant and good state of mind, love leads to loss, devastation and pain. The theme takes on a number of faces throughout the play including Hamlet’s love for…

Are you in love or rather obsessed with your significant other? In the great Gatsby by Fitzgerald there is once a poor man in love with a women who he hasn’t seen in five years. Once they reunite he wants to relive the past, but there are obstacles in between them two. Gatsby has always been obsessed with his achievements. Therefore his love for Daisy is another obsession rather than true love. Gatsby was a poor man, his goal was to be rich. “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm…

details of their lives which seem to allude us, their heartwarming poems about sexuality are memorable and iconic in the realm of homosexuality. Although it was never certain whether these two poets were lesbians or not, their sensual writings about love and women seem to suggest otherwise. Born on the island of Lesbos in 630 BC, Sappho, known for her lyric poetry, created poems directed at the women she loved, and was also a part of a collective of women that she…

and Feste have a bond that is shown through text and subtext, between Feste’s relationship with Malvolio, the songs he sings, and how Olivia interacts with him. While them being in love is the stronger interpretation, it must be swept under the rug, due to the differences between their class, and Olivia’s rising love for…

characters involved. This essay examines the concepts of love and attraction, both of which have a number of different applications, and will explore the notion of compromise as a true indicator of what constitutes a good marriage in Austen’s novel, with particular reference to the main protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy. Body (Paragraph 1 - 350 words) In her personal correspondence, Jane Austen has asserted that: “there are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” Although an…

tragic relationship are Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley. Jake Barnes suffered a wound during World War I that renders him incapable of sexual activity, so Brett refuses to be with him, even though she is in love with him. While the two do not have a romantic relationship, they still maintain a platonic friendship. Fate plays a strong hand in the tragic relationship between Jake and Brett. Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley have a tragic relationship since they cannot…

dismissing all the rumours about the duo’s relationship being platonic. The actors were spotted comfortably dating each other in the happiest place of the planet- Disneyland. As per sources1, the couple rode Space Mountain, Small world and munched on churros together. During the entire trip, Katy and Orlando were found holding hands of each another. Orlando also stole a kiss during one of the ride. They looked quite happy and immersed in love, and their entire focus was on one another rather…

Ayn Rand; The Atlas Shrugged). In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby money and love are intertwined in almost every way. Fitzgerald writes about the distinction between old money and new money- represented in this novel by Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lived in West Egg, a neighborhood in New York of the newly wealthy. Mr. Buchanan lived in East Egg, amongst those of old money. Both men find themselves trying to buy the love of one woman, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy, while married to Mr. Buchanan,…