Mutabilitie Character Analysis

(7.6.237-241). Mutabilitie declares Jove as a thief for “injuriously” taking the throne from Saturn when he seized “the elder from his right”, thereby stripping Mutabilitie’s rightful legacy of having the throne. Her defense establishes Jove not inheriting the throne, but violently taking it.
However, Mutabilitie’s is displayed as a contradiction because her strongness in regaining the throne is seen as her attempting to overpower anyone with “Rule and dominion to her selfe gaine;” (7.6.29). Because of her aggressive demeanor, Mutabilitie is then represented as the cause of all of mankind to downfall for making “wrong of right, and bad of good” (7.6.48). She is blamed because she represents change and change is viewed as sin. Spencer illustrated

Jove’s power was never complete or permanent, but particularly allowing him to rewrite history. Except, history keeps repeating itself by rebels creating war for heaven's throne. For example, when Jove killed the giants, Nature reincarnated their remains and those new creations rebelled against Jove still. There is a constant repeat of history of Jove’s struggle with power. Mutability persists a fight to bring back the Golden Age because rebels will continue to battle against Jove, even if he has the power to rewrite history. The instability of Jove’s power struggle in the heavens confirms Mutability to rule over the gods because she challenged the myths of immortality against Jove. Mutability calls Jove and “his fellow gods” as“faine” because they are acting like gods (7.7.129). They have fashioned themselves as gods. She challenges Joves permanence by saying “gods [are] no more then men thou doest esteeme:/ For even the gods the thee, as mento gods, do seeme” (7.7.134). She is stating that gods are like men, as men are like gods because they pretend to be who they are not. Furthermore, Mutabilitie’s biggest argument against Jove is his mortality. She challenges Jove in ownership of the throne, by asking him, “Where were ye borne? Some say in Crete by name,/ Othersin Thebes, and other other-where” (7.7.53). By doing so, she makes him confess that he

Nature never questions Mutabilities ruling over earth because “she bears the greatest sway:”, but Mutability is unworthy” of “the heav’ns rule” (7.8.1). Then, Nature tells Mutability that “Change doth not rule and raigne;/ But they raigne over Change, and do their states maintaine” (7.7.58). Nature elaborates that everything is “rul’d by” her (7.7.59) and Jove shall remain as king of the heavens which Mutability has to accept. Also, Nature continues to explain how “time shall come that all shall changed bee,/ And from thenceforth none no more change shall see.” (7.7.59). By stating that “all shall changed be”, Nature indirectly is saying that everything in life is set to transform, that everything is predetermined. Nature is indirectly saying that neither Jove or Mutability will reign forever, which portrays the fiction of permanence. Because of Nature's verdict of allowing Jove’s illegitimate ruling continue on, she presents that his reign will live on its impermanent cycle until it ends because all life is