Difficulties Of Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Love is the strongest attribute two people can share together. A Midsummer Night's Dream uses love to show how powerful it can be. The four characters, Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena, are the victims of Puck and Oberon's game with love. Puck and Oberon are two fairies who peruse to fix a problem in the story, but they fail and make the problem worse. Throughout the story there are different forms of love characters show towards each other. The forms of love the characters show are Eros love, Philia love, Storge love, Agape love, Ludus love, Pragma love, and Philautia love. The forms of love come from J.A. Lee's book "Colours of Love". In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespear shows the world the how much love really effects people's actions.

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.

Love is a very common theme that is seen in literature, and love is one of the most powerful things that can be felt for someone or something. Love can drive a person to do incredible or horrible things, and we see many forms of love that take place in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is demonstrated in the book by many characters including Hermia and Lysander who demonstrate true love. Titania and Bottom show magical love. In the play, love is also the cause of a few broken hearts. While there is no one common definition of love that suits all of the characters, the romantic relationship in the play all leans to one simple rule laid out by Lysander, “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

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.

Although love is typically a positive emotion or concept, it is most often truly a more negative notion, due to its consequences. Love is known to bring people together in the beginning, but also tends to customarily pull or even break people apart by causing chaos and rivalry. The loss of love could even cause insecurities to surface. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of the lovers, Helena, is scorched by love’s misfortunes when it comes between her and her ex-lover, Demetrius.The misfortunes of love force Helena into becoming an insecure woman who allows her emotions to cloud her judgement.

Four lovers each with his or her own challenge in love, Lysander and Hermia who love each other but may never be together, and Demetrius who loves Hermia and rejects Helena’s truthful devotion. Shakespeare’s writing style is the essence that brings forth the emotions within his works. Throughout a Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, commonplace literary devices are used to emphasize his style of writing. , Shakespeare depicts the theme of love’s difficulty, especially with the use of figurative language, such as metaphor and personification, to show that though complications arise in complex situations, the ability to overcome becomes the true meaning of love. wise

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

A Midsummer Night’s Dream supports the idea that pursuing love can take over the person’s action. In the play there were four characters in a love triangle, where the actions that seemed irrational were presented out of them. The character who best represents the idea that love can blind people to their actions is Helena. She seemed very desperate for him in the play by chasing him around. Helena showed that, love is blind when she told a secret to Demetrius, when she chased him around and  by the way she speaks to him.

Both Lysander and Demetrius have fallen for the beauteous Hermia and are seeking her hand in marriage which is a similarity they share. As Lysander

Love is the key to the world, or that is what is said at least. In the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, there are many love complications. The play is a tragic comedy in which a girl, Hermia, has a choice to marry someone she does-not love or she will be killed. When told her options, she devises a plan to run away and elope with the one she loves, but plans go awry when her best friend tells the man that is madly in love with Hermia that she plans to run away that night.

Ever have that crazy feeling about someone but you just can not put your finger on what exactly it is? It is love, a strongly used word with no exact definition. There are different kinds of love that is used for different people in different ways. There are three kinds of love which are limerence, love attachment, and bond loving affection. Within these three kinds of love they are all used differently towards different people. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare these three kinds of love from Andrew Marshall’s article “That Crazy Little Thing Called Love” are both seen and not seen within the characters.

“Love is paitent, love is kind. It does not envy it does not boast, it is not proud.”- 1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is an intense feeling of deep affection for someone or something. But everyone is worth something. Everyone has potential and no one should be treated badly due to lack of love.

which is the great play. This play has made me think about what love is really about.

“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.

In the play Hermia and Lysander were madly in love, but Hermia's father Egeus forbidden them from being together. He wanted his daughter to be with Demetrius “ she is mine and i'm giving her to Demetrius,” [Shakespeare 1.1 95 ]. So Hermia and Lysander planned to run away