Love Essay
“The course of love never did run smooth. ... Lysander is trying to express that true love is not perfect, and that love does not always go as planned. Shakespeare writes more about the nature of love in both “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “As You Like It.” Shakespeare uses the theme of transformation to help explain the nature of love, which in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It” is that passion sometimes, overrules reason. In “Midsummer Night’s Dream” one can see a change that Shakespeare uses to show that love does not have reason when Helena says: Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. ... 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 winged Cupid painted blind. ... She believes that love can transform even ugliness and bad behavior into attractive qualities when someone is in love. This is the case when she says that love does not look with the eyes but with the soul. Love does not depend on an assessment of appearance but rather on an individual perception of the beloved. Therefore this is way another might not understand the reasoning behind the love between two people. This is because sometimes on can not see what another does because when in love people look beyond appearances and see what is inside.