A Midsummer Night 's Dream

True love’s path is paved with every step. Through the assistance of fanciful elements as well as characters Puck and Oberon, the true message of love in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is revealed. The four lovers know the direction in which their hearts are inclined to turn, but when the love potion is administered, the bounds of their rectangle are thrashed without knowledge or consent. The rapid shifts in affection between the play’s “four lovers” is representative of the idea that love isn’t a conscious choice, but a cruel game in which we are the figurines, being controlled by whomever the player may be, relating the characters’ karmic fates.

Have you ever wondered what love would be like if magic existed? In one of Shakespeare's most renowned plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream, this thought becomes a reality. In a story about love, heartbreak, friendship, and a little bit of fantasy, four young characters-Demetrius, Helena, Hermia, and Lysander-find themselves tangled up in a convoluted love triangle. However, as if things weren't confusing already, mischievous magical fairies exist in the background and interfere with the love triangle, turning everything into a huge mess. Shakespeare carefully crafted this play, and every detail he included on the nature of young love became a metaphor for real life. Using A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare clearly conveyed the message that young love is unpredictable, painful, and sometimes rewarding.

Love comes with many complications and faces many obstacles. Shakespeare clearly portrays illustrates these difficulties this them through various relationships in his play, ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’. The characters face different obstacles which affect their relationships negatively. In the play, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ the main obstacles that cause negative effects on love are the use of magic, the law, and misunderstandings as well as and false assumptions.

Love is a theme which reoccurs through many of Shakespeare’s Plays. In ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, the theme ‘Love’ is presented from the very beginning in Act 1 Scene 1, through Shakespeare’s use of poetic language, structure and vivid imagery.

Love is one of the most difficult mysteries of life. The difficulty of love is shown throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In the play, the characters have to deal with jealousy that comes along with being in love. Love’s difficulty in the play comes from love being out of balance. Love being out of balance is a romantic situation where a difference gets in the way of happiness in the relationship. William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream demonstrates these conflicts with a little bit of humor and buoyancy. The four young Athenians have many difficulties with love. Hermia loves Lysander and Lysander returns the feelings; Helena loves Demetrius but Demetrius loves Hermia. The two men love the same women, which leaves Hermia

Love is a term used daily in one’s life. Many categorize love in many forms. These forms differ from one-another such as the difference between love for food and love for one’s spouse. However, in the play; “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, love takes different forms than the ones experienced in reality. One can classify the different types of love used in this play into three different categories; true love, love produced by cupid’s flower, and the state of lust.

The play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare, demonstrates the difficulties of human love. Throughout the course of this play, all the lovers were confused, whether it be from the love potion provided by Oberon, the fairy king, or whether it be through natural terms, (those not affected by the potion). In this essay, we will be looking at how Lysander had agreed with this implication of human love being difficult, the scene where all the lovers are confused, and lastly, the time when Helena was furiously jealous of Hermia.

However, this idea is challenged throughout William Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Based on this text, ideas of harmful love, kind love, and how it is crucial to understand the different between the two of them are brought up. These ideas are explored through the characters of Helena and Hermia, two best friends with very contrasting ideas of love. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream,

Love is such an abstract and intangible thing, yet it is something that everyone longs for. In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the difficulty of love is explored through the obstacles that characters have to face while pursuing their loved ones. Those characters that are in love in the play were conflicted with troubles; however, the obstacles of love do not seem to stop them from being infatuated with each other. The concept of true love is examined throughout this play. By creating obstacles using authority and a higher power, Shakespeare examines the power of love. Through Hermia and Lysander’s loving words, it is reasonable to conclude that love conquers all if you believe in it.

No matter your age, love can be a very complex and tricky emotion. Although Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night's Dream” has a complicated and chaotic plot, many important lessons on love can be learned. Love is a main topic in the play and the idea of it is played with a lot. Helena is in love with a man who fell in love with someone else, Lysander and Hermia have a forbidden love, and Titania and Oberon are going through some rough patches in their marriage. Three important points that can be learned from the play are that love can’t be forced, love can be deceived, and your love for someone never goes away.

In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the concept of love is explored as a foolish and quite silly thing, with exaggeration and imagery used to display the ridiculousness of the whole thing. It makes good use of reversed Shakespearean love quadrangles, interchangeable love interests, faerie magic, and metaphors for the blindness of love to weave a wonderful satire of the silliest of mortal concepts. We start by observing the dynamic between Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena.

I believe it is not about the experience that I had, instead, it is about what I discovered and learned from that experience and how I applied those into future problems. There are countless problems in the world that scream desperately for a answers, but those solutions often come in the form of a past experience. Therefore, the ability to connect the dots, to link experiences to problems, is the ability required to solve real world problems.

Intricacies of love in A Midsummer Night's Dream Throughout the play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” love is portrayed in many different ways. All of the characters portray a type of love that is unique to them and it helps their character grow throughout the play. Some of the characters experience several types of love, while some only experience one type. It seems that as relationships change, so does love. Romantic love is a gift that every adult will experience through the love phases of life (Nosk0, Thanh-Thanh, Lawford & Pratt, 2011).

In literature, the theme of love can be represented in many different ways. In William Shakespeare’s “Othello,” true love turns dark and ends with a tragedy. In another one of William Shakespeare’s works, “Twelfth Night”, love is expressed in a comical sense but romances end up arising. Love never runs smooth and in both of these plays, characters end up getting hurt by this strong emotion and feeling.

“The course of true love never did run smooth,” comments Lysander of love’s complications in an exchange with Hermia (Shakespeare I.i.136). Although the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream certainly deals with the difficulty of romance, it is not considered a true love story like Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare, as he unfolds the story, intentionally distances the audience from the emotions of the characters so he can caricature the anguish and burdens endured by the lovers. Through his masterful use of figurative language, Shakespeare examines the theme of the capricious and irrational nature of love.