Character Analysis
If you think love is the best thing ever no question, try chatting with Phaon, the victim of Occasion and Furor. He might make you feel a bit differently. His sad tale, a source for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, is a lesson in just how out of control too much love, and the wrong kind, can get.
Betrayed by his friend, Philemon, whose name means self-love, Phaon is constantly swinging between opposing extremes: madly in love with his fiancée, Claribell, or utterly convinced she's been cheating on him. By giving into these extreme passionate feelings, he produces an occasion for Furor—"Rage"—to possess him.