Both the phaedrus and Sense and Sensibility contrast prudence or sense(preferring the non-lover over the lover, for example) with another way of being human, which seems more concerned with richness of spirit or soul, than material benefit. How are these

Plato 's Phaedrus and Jane Austin 's Sense and Sensibility

Throughout the Phaedrus , the main characters of Socrates and Phaedrus discuss the concept of love : what it means to be in love , its various manifestations and the implications of each . In Phaedrus ' reading of Lysias ' speech , the archetypes of the Lover and the Non-lover emerge and function as the foundation of Socrates ' counter-argument . Jane Austin 's web of amorous personalities in Sense and Sensibility provides interesting case studies of these archetypes at work , specifically in the triangle of Marianne Dashwood , John Willoughby

and Colonel Brandon A platonic reading of the novel yields insights that can be seen to support the premises of Socrates ' argument

Socrates ' delivers his thesis in opposition to Lysias claims that it 's best to be loyal to one who does not love you (the Non-lover , because the Lover can only be loyal to his desire . Caring nothing for what is best for the objects of his desire , he 'll abandon and betray them once he tires of them , whereas , for a disinterested party , there is no time appropriate for repentance [of services] (Scully , 7 ) by which he means that a man not in love is driven by his own will to give , and not by a fleeting compulsion

Sense and Sensibility contains its own situation in which Lysias ' thesis would appear false . Early in the novel , the fate of the Dashwood household is placed in the indifferent hands of the wife of the sole surviving male...