Helena says, “Love looks not with the eyes, but with
the mind.”
The eNotes
website says, “Helena ponders the transforming power of love, noting that Cupid
is blind. The lovesick Helena has been abandoned by her beloved Demetrius,
because he loves the more attractive Hermia. Helena, while tall and fair, is
not as lovely as Hermia. Helena finds it unfair that Demetrius dotes on
Hermia's beauty, and she wishes appearances were contagious the way a sickness
is so that she might look just like Hermia and win back Demetrius. The
connection of love to eyesight and vision are matters of vital importance in
this play about love and the confusion it sometimes brings” (eNotes). I guess
what shes really trying to say is that when you love someone that it doesn’t
matter what they look like but what is on the inside. You can't
love somebody for how they look but they're personality So that means cupid is
blind ... You don't see love you feel love, If you notice it is actually the
heart that love drives. The rest get in line and do what the heart wants. If
the heart wants something the mind will help it and if it takes eyes to
understand what is going on well, they see what the heart sees when it is in
love. Basically look at the person for who they are and not what they look
like, and therefor cupid is painted blind meaning he does not look with his
eyes (painted blind) he looks within in them.
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