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>Lysander, under the influence of the love potion, falls in love with Helena and attributes it to his now-fully-matured *reason*. It is an obvious truism that reason is more often used to 'rationalize' an irrational opinion than to 'be rational' in the first place,
It's also a feature of young people. Cresting each wave, they feel like they've finally come into their own and experienced *real* adulthood. It's an iterative process that never ends until you get old.
>'rationally' explain why they are in love. It is the logical conclusion of all the 'comparing between Hermia and Helena' which has gone on in this play. What an amazingly fitting end to an act which is all about the capricious spirits of the unreasonable and unreasoned.
Cross-reference Cupid and Apollo from Ovid's Metamorphoses. There is no choosing involved. There's certainly no will. Desire is imposed somehow on you but from outside of you.
>Lysander, under the influence of the love potion, falls in love with Helena and attributes it to his now-fully-matured *reason*. It is an obvious truism that reason is more often used to 'rationalize' an irrational opinion than to 'be rational' in the first place,
It's also a feature of young people. Cresting each wave, they feel like they've finally come into their own and experienced *real* adulthood. It's an iterative process that never ends until you get old.
>'rationally' explain why they are in love. It is the logical conclusion of all the 'comparing between Hermia and Helena' which has gone on in this play. What an amazingly fitting end to an act which is all about the capricious spirits of the unreasonable and unreasoned.
Cross-reference Cupid and Apollo from Ovid's Metamorphoses. There is no choosing involved. There's certainly no will. Desire is imposed somehow on you but from outside of you.