Here's my take on the book so far:
So far, I have greatly enjoyed this book. It is full of rich language, engaging stories, and deep-rooted themes that resonate through every page. One of these themes is love: Tristan and Yseut experience, in great euphoria and also agony, the ups and downs of their unstoppable love. The book condenses the traditional path to finding love (a time-consuming, back-and-forth game of courtship) into just a drink of love potion, leaving the lovers vertiginous with what they must suspect was meant to be. Though some could view their chemically-induced love as not real love at all, it is really a metaphor for how real love truly feels: though it may creep up on someone, it will at some point hit them powerfully and leave them feeling incomplete without their love: in a perpetual state of uncontrollable desire. This metaphor is further proved by how Tristan and Yseut did not plan to love each other at all: it simply came over them unexpectedly, and against their wishes (they would never wish to hurt King Mark), as love often does. Tristan and Yseut feel horrible to betray Mark, but cannot do anything to stop their love. One of the main differences, though, between real love and the love induced by potion is that it appears as though the potion amplifies the love to a level where they have no power to stop their secret actions; but we see that this is also true for the people with real love who have affairs.
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