Another situation is where, in the same scene, Lysander describes the controlling influence love has on humans, and how this may contribute to the disapproval of it. He states “Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, war, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, making it momentany as a sound, swift as a shadow, short as any dream, brief as the lightning in the collided night, that, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, and, ere a man hath power to say “behold!” the jaws of darkness to devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion.” (1.1.143-151) Here, Lysander states some major problems that can separate love such as war, death, and sickness. These are things that would not only cancel love, but would cancel nearly any sort of emotion other than sadness and
Another situation is where, in the same scene, Lysander describes the controlling influence love has on humans, and how this may contribute to the disapproval of it. He states “Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, war, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, making it momentany as a sound, swift as a shadow, short as any dream, brief as the lightning in the collided night, that, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, and, ere a man hath power to say “behold!” the jaws of darkness to devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion.” (1.1.143-151) Here, Lysander states some major problems that can separate love such as war, death, and sickness. These are things that would not only cancel love, but would cancel nearly any sort of emotion other than sadness and