The Nature Of Love In Shakespeare's The Speech Of Aristophanes

In human society, people remain searching others who could complement themselves and feel love with each other. Love, a strong emotion of human beings, is hard to be defined. It is born into our lives. Couples, those people with love, could be strong and powerful when facing their difficulties and happiness in their life. We can see the great about love, but what about the nature of love? What is the reason that a person needs another person to complete him/herself? Plato, the Greek philosopher, who thinks love is not just sexual and forms the love as a minds and intellects communication, creates a metaphor in “The Speech of Aristophanes” by comparing the Aristophanes’ story with real human beings to explain his own answer of this question.

After thought again, he recreated genitals inside body. As a result, Zeus relocated and recreated their genitals, so that human could reproduce if woman and man met. This is the story that Plato represented. Human were once whole, because they were too powerful, the gods decided to cut them in two. Therefore, halves wanted their other half of themselves came back to them and grow together. As a result, people longed for others as we do now. This is the reason, the source of love, is the source of people’s desire that finding and loving with each other. This information is what Plato wanted to argue. It is an imaginary story, not a part of human history, but it tells the truth that love is born into every human being. Love attracts people to be together, to heal the wound, even the wound of human nature. In the conclusion, although love is an emotion that is difficult to be defined, Plato used an extended analogy, an imaginary story to express the answer in his mind. He thinks that people want to be together otherwise they will feel emptiness because they were one whole long time ago. That is what we were designed. Even sexual is a part of it, love is born into our soul from our original