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Essay on Role of Friendship and Love
Friendship may be said to require natures so rare and costly, each so well tempered and so happily adapted, that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured. Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party. “The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
We walk alone in the world. Friends, are dreams and fables. In the movie, it's not actually biblical to hint that lonely people should not seek to meet their emotional needs in human relationships, particularly marriage, but should spiritualize it into creativity or devotion to God. Those are good things, too, and we should devote our energies to them. But God did create us beings that long for each other's companionship, and he gave us each other as companions. The fact that Bridget has longings for men and that she is seeking for one man to establish a loving relationship with is a virtue.
Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality, but which seeks virtue and wisdom everywhere, to the end of increasing virtue and wisdom. We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. Bridget works in media, she lives in trendy, upper middle-class Notting Hill, and her intimate social circle consists of all the usual fringe suspects: a frustrated married woman, a frustrated single, pseudo-feminist journalist, and last but not least, a frustrated gay man.
When novelist Helen Fielding first created the character of Bridget Jones, she caused a sensation by revealing to the world a contemporary single woman’s secret diary. Bridget revealed in devastatingly witty, unabashedly uncensored dialogue the inner-most desires of “singletons” everywhere namely to be thin, clever, cigarette-free, most of all, deeply loved one day in the near future.....
