A Midsummer Night's Dream

Love was very important to the Shakespearean audience. There is not a play written by Shakespeare that does not contain some form of a love relationship. These plays usually end happily, however in the case of “Macbeth”, the relationship that carries this important function, that is love, is conveyed in a way most peculiar. Instead of the average “happily ever after” ending an audience would expect, Shakespeare offers the audience, a villainous duo. One would expect that their relationship is an average husband and wife relationship, but there are many similarities and differences in the relationship which makes it even more enjoyable for the audience to watch the course of it.

Shakespeare shows us, as the readers, that love comes in many different forms whether it is true love, love between your friends, love between your family or unrequited love but that every love has both positives and negatives. In the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare. Love is a key value shown throughout the play.

Most of the major characters in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night experience some form of love or marriage. Whether it’s unrequited like with Antonio and Malvolio, or it is something seemingly unattainable like with Duke Orsino. Regardless, it is clear that love is prevalent as one of the central themes Shakespeare seems to emphasize in Twelfth Night. With that, we see him communicate different interpretations and feelings regarding the subject. He does this with the medium of melodramatic characters. In this essay, I will elaborate on the opinions of love that Shakespeare communicates through one of the leading characters:

Hermia’s speech in Act 2, Scene 2, of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, contains an abundance of dream imagery. She has awoken from a terrible dream after falling asleep in the forest with Lysander. They were lost and tired so they decided to rest. Lysander wanted to sleep beside her but, she refused since they are not yet married and while they slept Puck applied a love potion on Lysander’s eyes thinking he was Demetrius. Lysander wakes and is repulsed by the sight of Hermia and never wants to see her again because he is now in love with Helena. Hermia awakes from her terrible dream and retells it thinking that Lysander is nearby listening. Then she realizes that he is not there and she does not see him anywhere. Hermia expresses the sentiment that she will find Lysander or she will surely die. She stated,

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.

In the A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare wrote about different aspects of love. Love is viewed as an arranged marriage in this story because Theseus and Hippolyta and Oberon and Titania had the girls parents decision on whom they must marry, however, their reactions to the marriage were much different. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare explores the mature and stable love between Theseus and Hippolyta in contrast with the relationship of Oberon and Titania, that has a negative impact on the world around them. The story contradicts a healthy relationship to an unhealthy relationship by having one couple be so strong whereas the other relationship is so

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.

However the idea of love is faked by the use of the magical love juice which confuses their love and makes the victim fall uncontrollably in love with the first person or animal they see which represents the idea of love in real life, humans can fall stupidly in love with someone and have no choice or a way of stopping it because it’s natural. The use of love strongly mimics the idea of love in real life and Shakespeare is trying to portray the reality of humans; how ‘true love’ is an illusion and every human being has a different perspective of it. The idea of reality and fantasy is important because during the times that the play was written was in the Elizabethan era and they strongly believed in the fantasy world; fairies and the devil. The play uses dramatic irony and this was an important part of a comedy because it shows that the audience know more than the characters producing humour, almost like a pantomime (when the audience shout things out at the actors to tell them what’s happening).

Shakespeare uses love through similes. After Romeo went to the balcony to meet up with Juliet he fell far more in love with her, even though he just shifted to her from Rosaline. Romeo states, “My love is deep and is boundless as the sea” (II.ii.). This shows how far Romeo is in love with Juliet. Also, how excited he is by comparing his love to something big like the sea. In addition, we see the usage of love by Romeo being deeply in love with Rosaline, but she does not feel the same way. Romeo implies, “Here is much to do with hate, but more with love” (I.i.). Romeo is saying even

Shakespeare’s usage of metaphor and simile in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is best understood as an attempt to provide some useful context for relationships and emotions, most often love and friendship, or the lack thereof. One example of such a usage is in Act 3, Scene 2 of the play. Here, the two Athenian couples wake up in the forest and fall under the effects of the flower, thus confusing the romantic relationships between them. Hermia comes to find her Lysander has fallen for Helena. Hermia suspects that the two have both conspired against her in some cruel joke, and begins lashing out against Helena. She says “We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, / Have with our needles created both one flower, / Both one sampler sitting on one cushion, / Both warbling of one song, both in one key; / As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, / Had been incorporate. So we grew together, / Like a double cherry, seeming parted; / But yet a union in partition / Two lovely berries moulded on one stem: / So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; / Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, / Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.” (Shakespeare 2.3.206-13). Shakespeare writes this list of vibrant metaphors to establish the prior relationship between these two characters and to make it evident how affected Helena is by this unexpected turn of events, as well as to add a greater range of emotion to the comedy, thereby lending it more literary and popular appeal.

Although his suggestion that love really is an obstacle course that turns us all into madmen was and is something we see in everyday life, the way he was able to capture and express it in multiple forms is truly mesmerizing. All in all, Shakespeare’s examples of love, led me to believe that no matter what kind of love you and your significant other share there will always be obstacles that get in the way and need to be overcome; but in the end, will make your relationship

Shakespeare has a very cycle driven view on love and pain. It is the driving force for evey action, plot point, and character in all of his play, their is either love or pain in the character and this causes them to take actions to change the current state they are in, which more than often causes the opposite to ripple out away from them crashing into other character, like a beach but made out of pain-love. It is shown very early on that there is not “perfect” idea of love, it is always flawed or preceded and/or postcedes by a horrible pain, death, or heartbreak in general. To Shakespeare love and pain are a two sided coin, you can't have one without the other, this is the best way you could describe Shakespeare's general feel towards love.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play about four Athenian lovers. Theseus listens to both Hermia and her father’s request and he tells her to bend to her father’s will or die due to the old Athenian law. Hermia and Lysander flee Athens, into the domain of the fairy kingdom. At this time, Oberon is in a fight with Titania. This fight is over a human child of Titania’s friend. Oberon tells Puck, one of his loyal servants, to get a flower hit by Cupid’s arrow, and drop the oil into Demetrius’s and Titania’s eyes. However, Puck drops the oil into Lysander’s eyes due to Oberon’s vague description, making him fall in love with Helena and despise Hermia. Titania falls in love Bottom, who has the head of an ass, after Oberon places the oil

Shakespeare has many subplots that are included in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he identifies the workers in creating a play in Act one called Pyramus and Thisbe for the Dukes wedding Shakespeare added this subplot because I think it enhances the audience’s understanding to become more aware of the theme and characters. I sense it makes people connect more to what is happening in the play as well it reveals more depth of what is occurring in each scene. I think subplots are important In this play because it allows readers to question how the plot is formed, as well to understand the structure that situates Shakespeare and the different inventive process of his work, it makes the play more interesting and is a different way to

In the play, one of the real subjects introduced was love. This play makes it clear that the possibility of sentimental love would be the core interest. Despite the fact that the end of the play is a cheerful completion, Shakespeare demonstrated despite the fact that affection can be an euphoric thing, it can also be a difficult one. The characters in the play do certain activities that cause torment to themselves, as well as different characters. Love is nearly