Platonic love between illusion and reality, author: Nabil Ragheb

This love found great popularity in multiple eras among theater celebrities or novel readers, and the play "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare and the novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe are only evidence of the widespread appeal of this overwhelming love in world literature. This type of literature received great acceptance from audiences who admired this extravagance in emotional outbursts that do not recognize any obstacles in the way of love, even if the ending is tragic, such as Werther's suicide, which tempted many German youth to imitate him in appearance and behavior, even his suicide, which they eagerly embraced, sacrificing their lives for the beloved. The research in this book came as an extensive work that reveals the reason and secret behind this close and long relationship between Platonic love and romantic love overflowing with emotions and passionate aspirations. The author found no suitable explanation for this connection except that it was a misunderstanding that occurred in one era and then transferred across ages.