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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 …

…emerges: the power to make us more and more human. Aristophanes had opened his speech with the claim that Eros “succors mankind and heals those ills whose cure must be the highest happiness of the human race” (189d). He now ends with a similar medical claim that “if we supply the gods with reverent duty he will restore us to our ancient life and heal and help us into the happiness of the blest” (193d).