It may be hair color, strength, intelligence, height, career, social status, or well-toned calves, whatever the case may be it generally accepted that each person has their own preferences. ... It is commonly a short lived infatuation that wears of and either develops into monogamous love or those involved go their separate ways. ... It is this quality that is shared with humans as well as certain animals that leads to family units, packs, pods whatever they are called they all share a common goal: to provide a better chance of survival and strengthen the species as a whole. ...

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Aristophanes goes on to say that there were three different kinds of these original human beings, all of which were differentiated by their gender. ... Once their desire for unification had been thus fulfilled, these beings could then go about their business and be able to once more be productive, thrive, and multiply so as to better please the Gods. ... Aristophanes characterizes love as the joy one derives from merely being with ones other half "And so when a person meets the other half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wond...

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The purview of love, in Plato as in common language, is restricted "to those whose enthusiasm is directed at one specific type who are described by the terminology that belongs to the whole class, that of love, loving, and lovers." (205d) She then goes on to knock down Aristophanes' definition of love as searching for one's other half on the grounds that this is only true if being reunited is good, using the example that amputation is acceptable if a limb is seen as diseased. ... Whatever the reason for its creation, the concept of Platonic love is a beautiful affirmation of the huma...

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With Gertrude, Hamlet would also like to express his anger towards her, as well as possibly kill her or make her go insane, without arising suspicion in others that he possesses a hostile rational mental state. ... He also wants to be able to punish them or hurt them for supporting or potentially supporting Claudius, while going free on basis of insanity. ... The reason is that whatever Hamlet learns from such information, that is, whether it proves or disproves Claudius' guilt, Hamlet will feel great psychological relief from the information. ... One means of achieving it would b...

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