Dido changes from a fantastic ruler who cares about her society and the wellbeing of everyone in it, to a woman who lacks interest in her society and thinks mainly about herself. Thus, the scene where Aeneas chooses his fate to find Rome over Dido, let’s the reader recognize how much Dido has lost herself to this infatuation. Once she realizes that she cannot change Aeneas’s mind to choosing her she, “driven by madness, beaten down by anguish, Dido was fixed on dying” (IV. 634.594-595). Here readers can understand fully how far Dido would take her passion. She would die and leave her sister along with her society of Carthage as if they were nothing to her. By letting this consume her and dying, Dido let her emotions take control and destroy her. If she were to think rationally, she would realize that this is a great loss to everything she has built up until now. If she were not to die, Dido may have found happiness in both her love life and city. Dido could have lead her people and herself into greatness if only her actions were all followed by reason instead of passion. But in the end, she surrenders to her own