Thank you for posting this analysis Indrani. The title is totally germane to the core of the story. I am mostly interested towards the philosophical theories that a fiction pivots and therefore reading it from a semantics point made this post further more interesting for me. This post is a doozie!
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Would love to sum up my reply with something that has been going in my mind after reading your post:
"The meeting of two personalities is the like the contact of two chemical substances : if there is any reaction, both are transformed"
As philosopher Martin Bubber wrote there is is no 'I' without a 'thou' (primary word being I-Thou)
In a relationship people don't experience each other rather they stand in relation with one another - the I is shared and the thou is accepted. The walls come down, the masks come off and the real connection occurs. In a sense, by joining with another, they are able to meet themselves; thus finding meaning.
Love is a responsibility of an I for a thou and given that feelings are within a person while love is between I and Thou, it follows that marriage renews itself through its true origin by revealing there thou to each other...
Now we have see how these two I's perceive in each other unique value and meaning by entering into the transcendent world of Thou. Each becoming a veritable symbol for the other, a reality that brings together the temporal and the eternal.
Edited by idonkno - 9 years ago
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