It is through Bottom that we get to see the nature of love; love is difficult and irrational. Oberon, due to inexplicable jealousy, enchants Titania with the magic juice and during the spell utters: "Wake up when the vilest thing is near." When Puck turns Bottom's head into that of a donkey, his fellow actors run away from him, and he thinks they are playing a prank on him. Bottom decides to stay alone in the forest and sings out loud, awakening the fairy queen Titania. Due to the spell Oberon cast on her, she falls in love with Bottom despite having the head of a donkey. When Puck restores Bottom's head to a human state, the fairies leave him in the woods and he wakes up thinking it was all a dream. This demonstrates the irrationality of love. In the play within the play Pyramus and Tisi mocks love when he says "let the audience look into their eyes". This statement simply means that people don't use their minds when they fall in love. Love is described as an emotion based on superficiality, therefore it is irrational. Bottom himself does not believe in love. In one case he says: “reason and love are little
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