Throughout the book Maurice, by E.M. Forester there are many references to that of “Plato’s Symposium”. E.M. Forester makes many references to the Greek Culture regarding the way that gender and sexuality have changed throughout time. During the Greek ages gender and sexuality were not often linked together to stereotype someone as who they were as a person. On the other hand, in London during the early 1900’s it was complete “rubbish” to say that you liked men and it was considered socially unacceptable. Forester shows qualities in Maurice that reflect those of the men during the time of the Greeks where Clive, another main character, rejects those beliefs of being with another man. E.M. Forester alludes to “Plato’s Symposium” in a sense of how sexuality and gender characterize a person between love and lust, surface and depth, and homosexuals in different times of society.