Lysander Love Smooth
Love is portrayed many different times throughout the play, from being blind by chance to being one of the most difficult feelings a person can have. One way love is displayed throughout the play is shown as being difficult. Since love is different from what the mind feels and thinks, it will not be easy. Lysander is the one to claim, “Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, / Could ever hear by tale or history, / The course of true love never did run smooth; / But, either it was different in blood, ”(Shakespeare I.i.136-139). This is to mean that love is not easy, but it is displayed to be rough and not running smooth. It is also shown that it is hard by keeping secret while in love. In act one, Lysander and Hermia are left on stage
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As Helena says, “Things base and vile, holding no quantity, / Love can transpose to form and dignity. / Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; / And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste; / Wings and no eyes, figure unheedy haste; / And therefore is Love said to be a child, / Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. / As waggish boys in game themselves forswear, / So the boy Love is perjured everywhere,”(I.i.237-246). What she is saying is, since Cupid is blind it means that love is also blind. If love is “blind” then it can't see with the eyes or looks of a person. It can only know what it thinks and feels without eyes. This is also shown when Titania is blind under the love potion and falls for Bottom, who literally has the head of a donkey. She is not looking with the eyes, but the mind. The reason it's the mind is because she thinks that he is the love of her life. If she were to truly see him without the love spell on her, chances are she is not going to fall for …show more content…
He says, “What thou seest when thou dost wake, / Do it for thy true-love take, / Love and languish for his sake. / Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, / Pard, or boar with bristled hair, / In thy eye that shall appear / When thou wakest, it is thy dear. /Wake when something vile is near,”(II.ii.28-35). This is the spell that Oberon uses after putting the love potion in her eyes. He wants her to fall in love with anything, so that he may take the changeling boy while she is unaware of it. He believes love is seen with the eyes and looks of
As Helena says, “Things base and vile, holding no quantity, / Love can transpose to form and dignity. / Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; / And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste; / Wings and no eyes, figure unheedy haste; / And therefore is Love said to be a child, / Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. / As waggish boys in game themselves forswear, / So the boy Love is perjured everywhere,”(I.i.237-246). What she is saying is, since Cupid is blind it means that love is also blind. If love is “blind” then it can't see with the eyes or looks of a person. It can only know what it thinks and feels without eyes. This is also shown when Titania is blind under the love potion and falls for Bottom, who literally has the head of a donkey. She is not looking with the eyes, but the mind. The reason it's the mind is because she thinks that he is the love of her life. If she were to truly see him without the love spell on her, chances are she is not going to fall for …show more content…
He says, “What thou seest when thou dost wake, / Do it for thy true-love take, / Love and languish for his sake. / Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, / Pard, or boar with bristled hair, / In thy eye that shall appear / When thou wakest, it is thy dear. /Wake when something vile is near,”(II.ii.28-35). This is the spell that Oberon uses after putting the love potion in her eyes. He wants her to fall in love with anything, so that he may take the changeling boy while she is unaware of it. He believes love is seen with the eyes and looks of