A Midsummer Night’s Dream Essay: The Young Lovers

The play Midsummer Nights Dream consists of many types of love. William Shakespeare does this so that he can make the audience compare how the types of love fluctuate. The types of love vary from emotional love to political love. Other types of love in the play is Titania and Oberon who have been married for a very long time, both inflict pain and trickery on each other regularly. The romantic relationships in this play all act upon one straightforward quote said by Lysander —‘the course of true love does not run smooth’.

The love that Lysander and Hermia share is very unlike the relationship between Helena and Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia have loved each other for a very long period of time and have dreamed of getting married. However, Hermia’s father, Egeus, disapproves of this couple. Hermia and Lysander’s love for each other is tested when Egeus tries to shatter their relationship

Hermia and Lysander behave irrationally throughout the whole play because they’re head over heels for each other; however, their love is oppressed by both her father Egeus and the strict Athenian law. In Act 1, Scene 1 when Egeus is at court with Hermia he uses a demanding and dominating tone to state, ‘as she is mine i may dispose of her’ This causes them to act spontaneously and irrationally and as a consequence, they run away from Athens to get married. This entertains the audience by adding more conflict and complication to the story. After they elope to the forest, magic becomes the force that turns love to a dramatic and conflict filled experience that is also entertaining. Lysander acts in irrational ways when he is put under the spell of ‘Love in Idleness’ where he states how madly he loves on Helena, and how much he hates Hermia. ‘Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose, / or I will shake thee from me like a serpent.’ Derogatory language and repetition is used to emphasise his hate toward Hermia and orders her to leave him alone. For example, in Act 3, Scene 2, Lysander has fallen in love with Helena and tells Hermia how he hates her. ‘Out, loathed medicine! O hated potion, hence!’ Conflict between characters create comedy in the play which entertains the audience because of the dramatic irony. Lysander’s insults in the statement are repetition as it is the same meaning but in different words. This language technique emphasises that Lysander wants Hermia to leave him alone.

Lysander and Hermia also portray true love. Refusing to marry her suitor, Demetrius, she willingly gives up everything and runs away from Athens with her lover, Lysander, “There my Lysander and I shall meet, and thence from Athens turn away our eyes.” In the play within the play, Pyramus and Thisbe also present us with true love. Their situation

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

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.

Helena, whom fancies Demetrius, decides to inform him of the happenings between Hermia and Lysander. Demetrius, infuriated by this news, decides to follow Hermia and Lysander out in to the forest. Helena is following along; against Demetrius’ repent of the action. Ultimately, along the love story between Hermia and Lysander we discover the second variation of love in the play: forbidden love. These two characters, desperate for one another, decide since their love is forbidden in their own home, they will travel to someone else’s and finally become one. This is their silent protest to what the Duke and Egeus have declared of their love.

Additionally, woman get annoyed when people make decisions that they don't agree with. In the case regarding love, they think that the best option to avoid arguments with their fathers and later with their husbands is to stay single. " So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will yield my virgin patent up. ”5 (Act 1, Scene 1, 79-80) This quote demonstrates that Hermia would rather stay single instead of marrying Demetrius.

Helena wants to be with Demetrius so badly she goes as far as giving up her freedom as she exclaims, "Use me but as your spaniel- spurn me, strike me, neglect me, lose me. " just to attempt to get Demetrius. Helena would rather be treated like a DOG than be without Demetrius! It is obviously true that love is smooth like a cactus if you would sacrifice your freedom for true love. This is significant to Lysander's quotation because Helena is so bothered by the fact that Demetrius doesn't love her that she will give up her freedom for his love.

The hilarious play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, tells the twisted love story of four Athenians who are caught between love and lust. The main characters: Hermia, Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius are in a ‘love square’. Hermia and Lysander are true love enthusiasts, and love each other greatly. Demetrius is in love with Hermia, and Helena, Hermia’s best friend, is deeply and madly in love with Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander try to elope in the woods because Egeus, Hermia’s father, disapproves of Lysander. Helena, hearing about their plans, tells Demetrius, and all four of them end up in the woods where Lysander’s quotation, “The course of true love never did run smooth”(28), becomes extremely evident due to several

Demetrius is back in love with Helena because he wants to be with Helena. At the beginning of the story Demetrius did not like Helena because he likes Hermia. Demetrius and Lysander get in a fight over Hermia to win her. Demetrius and Lysander both get a spell put on them by Puck that make them love the same girl, Helena. Puck cures Lysander because he made a mistake. By curing Lysander,

When Demetrius tells him that there was no chance for that to happen, Lysander and Hermia take it into their own hands and came to the conclusion that it was necessary to run away. In the text it states, “ ...From Athens is her house remote seven leagues; And she respects me as her only son. There gentle Hermia, may I marry thee; and to that place the sharp Athenian law cannot pursue us”(6) This was the first time that they learned that it would be challenging to earn their love. This relates to the quote by Mr. Montalban because how when he said, “ True love doesn’t happen right away”, he was very correct because Hermias and Lysander’s love was a difficult process. Not only did Hermia and Lysander face a challenge, Helena was in love with Demetrius, even though he did not love her back. As he ran into the forest to find the couple that ran away, she ran after him, telling him how much she loved him. In the book it says, “ (Demetrius) I love thee not ; therefore pursue me not. (Helena) I am your spaniel; and Demetrius, the more you beat me, I will fawn on you. (Demetrius) Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, for I am sick when I do look on thee.”(22) In the beginning of the book, Helena loves Demetrius, but Demetrius does not return the love. The

The play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, involves several different couples; Theseus and Hippolyta, Lysander and Hermia, Helena and Demetrius, Titania and Bottom, and Titania and Oberon. What aspects of love are explored in each of these relationships and what point is Shakespeare trying to make about love. Shakespeare shows love in multiple ways, whether its mature, forbidden, married, spell-bound, or unrequited. By doing this Shakespeare is trying to suggest that love really is an obstacle course that turns us all into madmen.

In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare tries to tell the readers that love can often sway people into performing illogical decisions. First of all, love can cause conflict amongst people. This is shown when two of the main characters, Demetrius and Lysander, were fighting with each other for Hermia’s love. Demetrius scorns: “Relent, sweet Hermia - and Lysander, yield. Thy crazed title to my certain right.

Oberon and Puck plot to use the love juice to have Demetrius fall in love with Helena, however, this becomes botched and chaos ensues. When the wrong people begin falling in love other themes are brought to light, jealousy and mistakes. This is shown within the play when Hermia confronts Helena for being in love with Demetrius and Lysander when [Hermia] says “O me! You juggler! You canker blossom! / You thief of love! What have you come by night / And stol’n my love’s heart from him?” (3.2.282-84). This lashing out at her friend Helena provides us a glimpse of what jealousy can make people do when they do not have all the information. As Hermia has angry words with Helena the thoughts of both Demetrius and Lysander can best be summed up in the lines from the song ‘Spellbound” :