... a stronger bond of friendship than parents have, because the children of their partnership are more beautiful and more immortal." (209c, my emphasis) Though the lover is initially inspired by his beloved's physical as well as mental beauty, the emphasis of the homoerotic relationship Diotima describes is not on the sexual gratification of the lover, but rather on the perpetuation of the ... lover's virtue and wisdom through teaching the beloved. Indeed, a step on the ascent to the ultimate form of love is to see "beauty of body as something petty." (210c) Poets like Homer and Hesiod, la...

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... 's hurt, so would Hamlet, who as a blood relative to the other men thinks and feels similarly to them. For this reason, Hamlet feels inhibited from deliberately destroying the man his beloved mother loves. There is also the prospect that a suspicious Claudius could influence a naive Gertrude to hate Hamlet, or to approve of or to support palace intrigue against the potential assassin ... Hamlet might feel estrangement from motherly love in attempting to kill or from succeeding in killing Claudius. After all, in killing Claudius, Hamlet would not be killing the man his beloved mother love...

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... than just two humans are physically incapable of being successful. This can be explained with the theory from Berger and company that "when in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate" (Berger 8). Face to face, human interaction is a key ... ...

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... or control the other, encouraging self-sufficiency of partners, accepting limitations of self or partner, not seeking unconditional love, accepting commitment, having high self-esteem, trusting the memory of the beloved, enjoying solitude, expressing feelings spontaneously, welcoming closeness while risking vulnerability, caring with detachment, affirming equality and personal power of self and partner (Schaeffer 1987). Moving from addiction to love is ... ...

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... 's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The play is a comedy tackling the subject of love, as well as the conflict and resolution that often accompany the emotion. Renowned as one of Shakespeare's most beloved works, audiences could appreciate the lighthearted tone and satirical notes. Fusing reality with imagination, he allows the play to "stretch far beyond the limits of the real world of everyday ... ...

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... Hamlet might feel estrangement from motherly love in attempting to kill or from succeeding in killing Claudius. After all, in killing Claudius, Hamlet would not be killing the man his beloved mother loves. Gertrude would also not condemn Hamlet for killing or attempting to kill Claudius if she did not love Claudius. Thus, Hamlet would have the psychological freedom he would ... ...

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... as a madman by enhancing a feminine flight of fancy. Though his plan is ultimately futile, this inheritance of supposed female qualities is later marked on poor Ophelia. Hamlet's treatment of his beloved undermines her own love for him. Whatever uncertainty lay beneath the veneer of her otherwise beautiful frame hyperbolized ten-fold when her father's life callously disappears at the hands of ... ...

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... examines two sides of love, the mundane love between the rational Doctor Juvenal Urbino and his dutiful wife Fermina, and in contrast, the consuming passion of Florentino that sees his beloved Fermina in a way no one else can. However it is through the latter that I believe Marquez uses magical realism successfully to analyse love at all ages. Florentino is in his ... ...

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... 's face, as well as his intense concern about the fate of Catherine's body, testifies to the extreme depth of his obsession. In a sense, Heathcliff's interest in the decomposition of his beloved is quite in keeping with the nature of their relationship. The text consistently describes their love not only in spiritual terms, but in material ones. Thus Catherine declares in Chapter ... ...

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