Platonic love

To an individual love is a sensation of transforming rather than remaining stagnant – and this metamorphic emotion is not limited only to romantic love. The world revolves around a lot of platonic and self-love, too. Love is subtle, silent, and delicate; and in its beginnings it can be drowned out easily by attachment, fear, and especially lust. Love is powerful – powerful enough to shatter the dirty habits a person bears. Desire – or lust – is reckless. Desire is the intention to change, to…

goddesses who made love with each other’s family members, parents and children to the modern-day cases of fathers forcing their daughters to procreate for them that disturb and intrigue the public mind. In the case of romantic love between parents and children, “Little C” by Martha C. Nussbaum suggests that, disturbingly, the difference between romantic and parental love is tenuous at best, and easily corruptible. The idealized selfless love that is often seen as the epitome of romantic love…

developed a strong moral compass, and great self-awareness, and self-acceptance. She is no longer vulnerable, and has achieved assertiveness and outspokenness. Jane considers beauty far beyond physical appearances, and is triumph in her struggle for love and flourishes into an internally beautiful, mature women, who has achieved financial stability. Jane’s character change is shown when she declares, “I married him, readers,” which shows Jane’s fulfillment in several aspects she was…

As teenagers and frankly as humans, many people focus on finding a person to love and in return be loved. This same idea applies to a Mister Oscar Wao. He desperately wants to find love. Desperately meaning he fell in love with every girl he saw. The only thing holding Oscar back is what he believes is the fukú. The fukú is a curse put on a family for many, many generations. Oscar believes his lack of success in the love department is due to the fukú placed on his family. Thought out Junot…

readers can easily understand and connect with, an ending that portrays the gratitude of patience, and balance between the plot and language. During their teenage years children experience a lot of relationships; these relationships can either be platonic or romantic. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Helena is baffled at the fact Hermia has just called her fair. She continues to go on about how her beauty could never measure up to the perfect nature of Hermia. Helena also wishes that Hermia would…

Queen herself even commissioned her own pastoral masque designed by none other than Inigo Jones in which she and her ladies in waiting performed title The Shepard's Paradise. This masque's themes were about beauty and, one of her favourite topics, platonic love . The last court masque James ever saw was performed was in 1640, The Masque of Salmacida Spolia, right before the country slid into civil war and the King's execution, or what he and his followers liked to call regicide…

her poem A Certain Lady, she 's doing it because society expects her to - but this essay will argue that she 's also doing so out of paid obligation. At first glance, 'what goes on while (you 're) away / you 'll never know ' seems like unrequited love between friends, specifically the feelings that she has for him, but this is not the case. Certain lines in the poem discuss themes of emotional detachment, obligation and promiscuity – typical of what readers would expect of someone who lives a…

the painting intimidates the two mythological people who had a two-time affair. The Goddess of Love Venus who had unlawful relationship with the God of War Mars and she is still married to lame blacksmith Vulcan, who forged Cupid’s…

deeper in love every minute.” A person who is ‘perfect’ does not become obsessive, does not fail, does not sin, and so does not exist. We fall, rise and hopefully learn from our mistakes. Imperfections are traits that characterise us as human beings. The quotation above, taken from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, introduces one of the key ideas which features as a universal theme throughout literature. With all the themes presented across the ages, it seems undeniable that love,…

Nowadays, love is everywhere. Movies, books, music, and art commonly revolve around love. Whether it’s a cheesy romance novel, or an abstract sculpture, there are hundreds of pieces about it. One common theme in these pieces in the concept of the “love triangle”. Consumers of media have heard the phrase “love triangle” for decades. In this context, two people are in love with the same person. This, however, is not the only meaning behind the phrase. Robert Sternberg, an American psychologist,…