I feel this is a great example of the promise of language in communication. When Faust asks about the meaning of life, the Devil makes the claim that it can not be understood by use of language. Faust's reaction to the devil's lie is typical of human behavior. We search for different answers to our questions because, like Faust, these feelings are also in our breasts. It is obvious that a person needs language to communicate feelings, but I also think that emotions cannot be truly developed and understood without language.
Language directly effects emotions and vice versa.
For example, feral children do not sing happy songs in the rain forest like Mowgli in Disney's The Jungle Book . Real feral children are more like animals. As Steven Pinker points out, genes make up the blueprint for language, but the environment in which it is exacted and stored is what ensures that the language used is synchronized with the people of a common idiom. This tells us language is what separates humans from animals, which we already know, but it also tells us that through communicating with others we can become more educated about our instinct as humans. The ability to identify why we have different emotional reactions to various situations is one of language s most powerful uses.