Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” (Destany)

 

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.

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” (Monse)

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

I believe this statement is true. It is also obviously the correct thing. I will break it down and explain it. Love has obviously been around since anyone would remember. It is a natural thing so it’s not a type of “following”. Therefore, This means that the process of true love has never been easy. So yes this is very true. It’s in novels, and in real life, even though some people might not believe it or might not have seen it before. It is like a love problem, and that’s everywhere. There might be family members that might not agree on your choice of partner and you already know there is going to be some type of argument. There are always going to be haters! And those haters try doing ANYTHING to make you argue with your partner! There are also jealous people and there are EXTREMELY jealous people! There are also insecure people and / or couples. Those are the “easy prey couples”, where the haters jump in and start venom your partner and telling then stuff about you. Then your slow partner believes it and this huge argument occurs and it just gets ugly. So point is that true love is not easy, and it never will be, and if it were easy then it’s not true love, and not good love.

“ THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE DID NEVER RUN SMOOTH”

        I would agree with Lysander’s quote. I believe that there would be ups and downs in true love. There could be all kinds of problems In people’s relationships but not always does the problems have to be with them. For example Hermia and Lysander there perfectly in love but her father doesn’t want Hermia to be with Lysander. The problems don’t always come from each other they sometimes come from the people around you. In my beliefs in a relationship there has to be trust and communication for it to be strong and healthy relationship. If you cant trust your partner you going to have second thought about them all the time and that can cause problems. True love could be good you could find a lot of new things in life with loving somebody. When your with them all the time things could go wrong. Like marriage’s they always don’t end up working out and people get divorce. Supposly when you marry somebody that person suppose to be your true love, the one your suppose to commit to and only her. Well when your with somebody 24/7 you get to know them a lot better than you did. You’ll probably going to have more problems, probably not though it depends on each other they could always be fix. But I would agree love does never run smooth. It has it ups and downs but it just depends on each other really.

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” (Juan)

 “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”

I think that this mean that when your in love it doesn’t mean you love because of the looks, you love because you know and feel something, For the other person.

Loving if something you feel for your mate or the person you are with. Eyes can see a whole lot of things that must mean you love everything in the world, seeing isn’t loving it is simple thoughts and somewhat feeling the main thing of the love is that the mind sends feeling and tingles all over your body that’s why you get the goose bumps and you even sometimes just get your heart pumping faster and faster then usual. When someone loves with their eyes they just feel a little bit of care for that person. When your loving with mind and thoughts it more of a serious type of love because loving is a feeling from your body that gets you warm and nervous with a lot of thoughts running through your mind and head is just full of ideas and thoughts.

Just love with thought, and not with your eyes because it is not going to last long and nice how you would want it to be.

Love (Blue)

Lysander said of love,  “The course of true love never did run smooth”

The course of love wont and never will run smoothly. Life and love are full of obstacles, and challenges that you may have to stop and think about. People have this thought that “Love” is suppose to be perfect, and have no problems, and just full of happiness. Well some people don’t realize that life/love without ups and downs, just mean’s your dead. The perfect love is what we’ve created in our minds created because that’s what we think we deserve.

Helena says, “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”

To love someone you may only see their personality, you accept their flaws and all. Not having a care in the world what they look like but how they act. Most people look for the perfect couple “look”, like stereotypes. Typical ones like in high school you’d expect to see a jock with the head cheerleader, but you wouldn’t expect a jock with an art geek. Not all love should be based on what you see but how you feel towards that person.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind (Leslie)

Helena says, “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” (I, I, 234- 235)

I think this statement is really true because most people and from my experiences I have notice that most people could be either blind, death, or just paralyzed on a wheel chair or have some kind of syndrome and those people end up finding there true love. Obviously those people do not judge there soul mate or what ever they call it by there outside. They judge by the inside on how they really are. Their personality and those special features that make the other person fall in love with them even more. But the outside features are also important well on my opinion. They don’t have to be perfect. If they both have more similarities than differences than they can actually work out. They don’t have to be agreeing with almost everything. Someone also can attracked by their differences. What counts is that the couple can sooner or later after disagreeing on something they could end up with a agreement. So I totally agree on Helena because what counts is too look for your loved one not with your eyes but with the mind. That way if you are ready to settle down, and want something to last. I think its better to love with the mind.