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Of course, people who are in love tend to find each other very attractive, but they also have something more significant than that: a love of each others’ personalities, thoughts, beliefs and so on.Ģ. True love is not superficial: The proverb encapsulates the idea that true love is not just about how someone looks, but it is about who they are right at the core of their being. The relevance/significance of the proverb ‘Love is blind’ is discussed below:ġ. Relevance/Significance of this proverb.h2>

There are, then, several ways of interpreting this proverb and it is useful to summarize them. So here, the proverb is being used to express the idea that love is something unexpected and random, controlled by fate in a way that we cannot always understand. But, because Cupid was firing his arrows whilst blindfolded, people would fall in love at random. Whoever was hit by one of Cupid’s arrows would fall in love. In classical mythology, Cupid was often depicted wearing a blindfold and shooting arrows at lovers. Yet another interpretation of the proverb is also in existence. In this case, the proverb is not used to refer to lovers being blind to one another’s physical appearance but rather to the way in which lovers do not see or do not dwell upon, the flaws in each other’s characters. The notion of ‘blindness’ in this proverb can, however, also be taken to refer more abstractly to being blind to a loved one’s faults.

Sometimes, the proverb is used in a slightly humorous way, when people want to comment on a romantic couple, one of whom is (in their opinion) more physically attractive than the other. It does not matter what a loved one looks like on the outside: it is what they are like on the inside (their character) that is most important. This proverb is most usually taken to mean that true love is not dependent on physical attributes.