The story of Baucis and Philemon was my favorite of all the stories in Metamorphoses. It was basically a summary of all the previous ones that had been shown, for it concluded all the points that had been discussed. Love had been the main topic for almost all of my recent posts and this story doesn't stay behind. Furthermore, this story is the one that love has been show the greatest and deepest, for the characters are very humble and did truly love on another.
Love can be shown in various ways and demonstrated to the different people differently. For example, the love that you have for your parents is a distinct affection to that that you have for your boyfriend. However, the essential key of love is still there. Baucis and Philemon had lived their whole lives together. They were a happily married couple that truly loved each other. Their love was so great, that they went to the Gods and asked them for eternal companionship. So their love was so strong, that they didn't care how and when, but they wanted to be together forever. When thinking of something strong, and stable I may think of a post. But in this story, these two loving characters are turned into trees, for their love was so strong that they would stick together forever. Trees that would remain next to one another eternally.
So, in this final story I learned what Metamorphoses was all about. It was about evolution and the change in love. How people and things transform from one thing into another, not necessarily referring to the trees, but more to the values that come with it. Of course these stories are not real and lay their senses all upon fiction, but the literal meaning is the one that shouldn't really be taken. One should learn from its figurative teaching, and try to take some lesson from it. I now think that what type of human would do such sacrifice upon to love forever? I know this story isn't real, but will I ever be able to find one love such as that one? Hope so.
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