A Midsummer Night's Dream Quote Analysis

A Misummer Night’s Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare. In this play there are multiple themes however the most evident theme is love. Why is love an evident theme? It is an evident theme because the play commences with two Greek mythology characters─ the Duke of Athens, Theseus and Amazon queen Hippolita planning their marriage. However as Theseus plans his marriage he has to help Egeus persuade his daughter Hermia to marry Demetrius. Unfortunately both the Duke and Egeus failed to persuade Hermia into marrying Demetrius so the fairies (another set of characters. The fairies in this play consisted of goddess of chastity and Queen of fairies, Titania and King of fairies Oberon and his assistance Robin Goodfellow) decide

There are lots of different types of love in the world. Tender love, obsessed love, ardent love, oppositely sided love, just normal love, and so on and so forth. One of them, blind love, is defined as loving somebody so much so that you cannot see their faults and also defined as love that can overcome many barriers. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the four young lovers show that love is blind.

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.

Midsummer Night’s Dream mainly depicted the baffling journey of four Athenian young lovers, and a frivolous group of actors who unwittingly interacted with the Duke, Duchess, and somehow fairies. Being that the story took place in an eerie forest in Athens, there was a fight betwixt the fairy king himself and his lovely wife Titania, which had an impact on the environment. To win back the devotion of his wife Oberon showed her how fortuitous she was by making her fall in love with a weaver who was transformed into

Faults exist when love and law attempt to coincide. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia comes head to head with unfairness, the fault which arises after her father disapproves of her marrying who she loves. According to the Athenian Law she must serve a punishment for disobeying her father. By this law, she should treat him like a god or her ruler. What he says goes and he intends for her to marry Demetrius, but she loves Lysander. In the play, if she does not marry who her father has chosen for her, several punishments may occur. Hermia has a few options she must quickly choose by the wedding of Theseus and Hyppolyta. Ultimately, law should not factor into a person’s

Steven: After Lysander and Hermia leave for the forest. Demetrius leaves to chase after Hermia, and Helena follows him because she loves Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia get tired after a while, and decide to rest. Puck then arrives to execute his plan, but he puts the juice on Lysander’s eyes instead of Demetrius’s by mistake. Lysander then later wakes up, right as Helena and Demetrius arrive.

This quote along with the love affairs going on between Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena may be what conveys Shakespeare’s view on romantic love as passionate, irrational and blind. Helena’s quote means that love has the ability to twist a person’s perspective on the object of their affections into something more favorable and beautiful, akin to their own fantasy as love clouds their

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!” With this statement, William Shakespeare’s character, Helena, depicts Hermia in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. I, conversely, will use this statement to introduce the country of Luxembourg. The Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook affirms that Luxembourg is located in Western Europe and is geographically landlocked, as it is bordered by the countries France, Belgium, and Germany (The World Factbook). The Encyclopedia of the Nations states that Luxembourg is one of the smallest nations in the world with an area of 2,586 sq km, which is slightly smaller than Rhode Island- the smallest state in size of the United States of America (Encyclopedia of the Nations). The World

Another characteristic that is not generally applied to love, but which is inseparably connected to it in this play, is cruelty. Love is an agent of degradation. Helena abases herself in a pathetic attempt to renew Demetrius’s love for her, saying, “I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, / The more you beat me, I will fawn on you. / Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, / Unworthy as I am, to follow you” (2.1.204-207). It is love that brings her so low; it does the same to Hermia when she has lost Lysander’s love. Hermia is understandably bewildered by the sudden loss of her lover, and she says,

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Love is only as strong as the people who share it. In William Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there are relationships from all different viewpoints of love. Four Athenian lovers are caught in a web of love for the wrong person, according to fellow peevish characters. Along the story line of the play, one will be introduced to additional characters that try to be helpful by committing acts they presume will benefit the young lovers, but these characters actually create plot-twists. Also, there are other characters that have the authority to change whatever they feel is necessary without thinking twice. Furthermore, throughout this humored play, Shakespeare portrays various forms of love through arranged marriages, forbidden

“O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence! Love takes the meaning in love's conference.” Lysander's quote, “The course of true love never did run smooth,” is proven throughout the play as three couples face challenges and hardships as time goes on, that no love is easy and that anyone would do anything they can to keep the love they have. In “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” there are many examples of rough love, as seen with Hermia and Lysander when Lysander stops loving Hermia, when Helena love Demetrius but he does not love her back and with Titania and Oberon, as they argue over the changeling boy.

Misunderstood Intentions? Puck a scheming, troublesome and mischievous servant fairy of Oberon who is not that good at listening. All throughout William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Puck seems to be at fault for most of the characters' problems. However Oberon is the person who requested for Puck to carry out most of these tasks, Puck is the character that blatantly mistakes Lysander for Demetrius, puts the Ass's head on Nick Bottom, and forced Lysander to hate Hermia for a while.

The play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, published and edited by EMC Publications and Laurie Skiba in 1998, is about foolishness and reveals that love can make a one blind, thus causing them to make a fool of themselves. Consider the quote, “Take not her part. For if thou dost intend. . . show of love to her, Thou shalt aby it,” (Shakespeare 51). This conversation between Lysander and Demetrius shows they are so blinded by love they will fight each other for Helena’s love.

This scene begins with the fairies putting Titania to sleep. They sing her a song and once she falls asleep Oberon comes to the sleeping woman and puts the nectar in her eyes, although it does not occur in this scene the nectar causes Titania to fall in love with Bottom.