relationship between lust love and death
The broad nature of the relationship between love, lust and death makes any attempt of coming up with one pattern or form that illustrates such complicated relation very hard. ... In the speech of Diatoma, Diatoma explains the reason behind love to be the desire of immortality: “Mortal nature seeks so far as possible to live forever and be immortal and this is possible in one way only: by reproduction” (207D). This might raise the following question: could love be nature’s own way in beating death and staying immortal? Or is love a natural result of death itself? According to Diatoma “everything naturally values its own offspring, because it is for the sake of immortality that everything shows this zeal, which is love” (208B), which agrees with the notion of love being a natural result of death, for if there was no death, there will be no need for humans to reproduce and practice the act of sex as a symbol of both lust and love. The same idea is also conveyed in the Bible within the story of creation, as Adam and Eve did not have sex until they were put forth from the garden of Eden to the earth and realized what is good and evil thus understood the concept of life and death, “Now the man knew his wife Eve and she conceived and bore Cain saying {I have produced a man with the help of god}”.