Analyzing one’s emotional attachment to a significant other, Socrates emphasizes the dynamic result of love based upon marital standards, while Plato reveals the inevitable and unrelenting beauty of prolonged affection.
Challenging Socrates’s claim that destructive relationships catalyze philosophical crises, reveals the dynamic results of endearment. Claiming that true love begets happiness, while destructive relationships catalyze philosophical thoughts and action, Socrates’s claim fails. For a marriage, is a measurement of commitment and acceptance and not everyone thinks about the ramifications of love because some simply don’t care. Deflecting socrates's claim, the novel A Streetcar Named Desire, emphasizes the mindless decisions that still accompany satisfying wife. Throughout the novel, Stanley professes his love to
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His relationship with Stella, loving and prosperous, was no rival to his primitive passions and he sacrificed it for another women. Further proving my point, Stanley also expressed extreme lust for Stella after he raped Blanche as he beckoned her screaming, “Stella!!” with heaven splitting violence. Thus, disproving Socrates’s claim, relationships are not solely based upon the standard of a wife. Love can be kind, however, it is the actions of those involved that define the marriage. Paralleling this literary connection to challenge Socrates’s claim, Bill Clinton's infidelity to his wife stands as another deflection to Socrates argument. After being wed to his wife for decades and proclaiming his love and dedication for her on national television, Bill Clinton illuminates how the judgement of a wife does not determine happiness on a relationship. Cheating on his wife with Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton demonstrated the polarity of happiness with his wife, and