Love is blind Why Should I Care

Why Should I Care?

Most people have felt torn between a romantic relationship and loyalty to friends at some point in their lives. Maybe you've had to decide between, say, joining your pals for a night of bowling and pizza or a romantic date with the person you've been crushing on since the fourth grade.

And we all know someone who has betrayed a best friend by stealing (or trying to steal) his or her prom date, right? It's not very nice, but it's the stuff literature, poetry, and music lyrics have been made of for as long as anyone can remember.

That's exactly what this play is tackling. Two Gentlemen of Verona is all about messy relationships between friends and lovers and this quote hints at the darker side of falling in love—especially when it's blind.

Our point is this: Shakespeare's play is about love triangles and whether or not our friends deserve our loyalty more than our romantic partners. It's the 16th-century equivalent to our modern bromantic comedy. The play wants us to think about how love can make us do crazy things because it is blind.