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Essay Galaxy - Aristophanes Views On Love
Aristophanes Views on Love
In the Symposium, a most interesting view on love and soul mates are provided by one of the characters, Aristophanes. In the speech of Aristophanes, he says that there is basically a type of love that connects people. Aristophanes begins his description of love by telling the tale of how love began. He presents the tale of three sexes: male, female, and a combination of both. These three distinct sexes represented ones soul. These souls split in half, creating a mirror image of each one of them. Aristophanes describes love as the search for the other half of your soul in this quote: When a mans natural form was split in two, each half went round looking for its other half. They put their arms around one another, and embraced each other, in their desire t....
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