Blog 18~Quote Response

Roderigo: "What should I do? I confess it is my shame to be so fond, but it is not in my virtue to amend it." (Shakespeare 957).
This quote and the dialogue that followed with Iago stood out to me profoundly. This man, so infatuated with this woman, but without the strength to resist it. Unable to explain WHY he can't let her go, just knowing with ever fiber of his being that he CANT. Loving someone so much as to not be able to let go. Knowing with all your heart there will never be another feeling like that one. Knowing that as you are torn apart with the wanting and needing, you are powerless to break free from it. A chain binding your heart inexplicably to another.
Iago obviously disagrees! "Virtue? A Fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus." (Shakespeare 958). In other words, we can do whatever we set our minds to. Maybe with other matters, but with matters of the heart? Maybe not. And really, denying your heart the object of its affection may be denying yourself an amazing gift and opportunity. Come what may, I would rather say I knew what an all-consuming love felt like, even if I didn't get to keep it, than to have denied myself that opportunity and wondered "what if".