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Lysander Reason And Vision Balance

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Reason and vision cross in several crucial moments, allowing Shakespeare to draw them clearly into the foreground as related subjects. Lysander mixes them up when he explains his change of heart to Helena: "The will of man is by reason sway'd;/And reason says you are the worthier maid./Things growing are not ripe until their season,/So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason;/And touching now the point of human skill,/Reason leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook/Love's stories written in Love's richest book" (III.i, ll.115-122). This is a crucial signpost for a reader. We know that Lysander has chosen because of what he awoke to see. The repetition of the word reason so thoroughly through the passage signals a connection. It is clear
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