How does Shakespeare present love in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?

Within Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, the reader is exposed to the idea that love is an over-arching shadow that casts itself over the entirety of the play, despite it being the most fundamental theme within the plot it is the main cause of nearly every major event that happens within the play. This is seen within Theseus’ monologue where he discusses the ideas of: love being able to drive you to do insane acts, love altering one’s perception of reality, and the lengths one is willing to go to in the name of love.

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 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.

True love is the most powerful love in this story as it is the sort that hurts no one and is really from the heart. It is demonstrated when Lysander says " There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee, and to that place the sharp Athenian law cannot pursue us. If thou

Love is complicated emotion for people. It can make its victims feel an abundance of sadness, jealousy, and joy. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, two different characters, Helena and Hermia, both tied together by love, portray the challenging obstacles that love can create. Helena’s difficulty is being in love with a man who does not love her and Hermia’s problem is loving a man who she is forbidden to love. Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, characters face obstacles they have to overcome to be happy.

In Shakespeare's work ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ Lysander says that the course of true love never runs smooth. He says this because true love is usually hard to find. Lysander and Hermia are trying to stay together through the tough times they are going through. Egeus is forcing Hermia to marry someone she does not want to wed. Three examples of why the course of true love is hard to find is that there will always be someone trying to change someone's feelings, true love is usually blind, and there will always be sacrifice.

Titania falls madly in love with Bottom after she was anointed with a love potion and Bottom's head has been turned into that of an ass. He thinks nothing out of the ordinary about a fairy queen that has fallen in deeply in love with him. His inability to perceive the fact that his head had been transformed and a fairy queen has fallen in love with him parallels how absurd he is.

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

In a Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare, the entire play portrays love in several different ways. I do agree with the quote from Lysander, “the course of true love never did run smooth.” (Shakespeare, 1935.) True love has always been something that is cherished more than life itself. However, some people do not want to put in the effort in the relationship because they think things are just supposed to work. This is not the case. True love takes patience, loyalty, commitment, and effort to work. There are several struggles that go in amongst the characters and their struggle to get to where they want to be and with who they want to accomplish things with. In this play, several different kinds of love were portrayed. The three most important kinds, in my opinion, are forced love, romantic love, and family love.

Before most of the complications begin, Lysander tells Hermia that “The course of true love never did run smooth;/ But, either it was different in blood” (I.i.134-135). This suggests that love is complicated since it doesn’t run smooth. However the audience of the play doesn’t just need Lysander’s words to prove that love is a complicated process. In the beginning of the book, all Hermia and Lysander want to do is love each and live life together. However, Demetrius wants to have Hermia and he has the consent of Hermia’s father to do so. So they flee to the magical forest where the fairies mess around with their love by using love potions on the wrong Athen couples. With nothing but true love to guide Hermia, Lysander and Helena, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is an excellent example of how complicated the process of love

In Act 1, Scene 1: line 134 of the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare writes, “The course of true love never did run smooth”. This statement made by Lysander about love, in a way, sets the tone for the whole play. The play 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 it’s mature, forbidden, married, spell-bound, or unrequited.

Everyone has their own perspective on true love. Some define love as an obsession toward an individual and others as a powerful feeling towards another person. Finding true love can sometimes be difficult but for others they find it instantly without even looking for it. In the play Midsummer Night’s Dream presents true love through three couples who are fighting through obstacles to defend their love. Even though all of this couples seem to be stubborn and selfish they are determined to change their

Shakespeare revolves his play around four lovers who illustrate the complications often seen in young love. In the story Hermia, Lysander and Demetrius are fighting over each other’s love: “Relent sweet Hermia and Lysander yield Thy crazed title to my certain right” (Shakespeare 13). Lysander and Demetrius are trying to convince Hermia to love one of them. Demetrius says

Through the pursuit of love has the capacity to make us irrational, foolish idiots.Shakespeare develops this idea of love through the characterisation of Titania who falls in love with Nick Bottom, a literal and metaphorical, ass.Through Titania’s actions love is shown to be the cause of absurd behaviour for example, “Methought I was enamour’d of an ass.” (Act 4, Scene 1)This quote demonstrates

Although Bottom can be seen as the focus of comedy in the play, he also shows the seriousness of the play by suggesting the relationship between the play’s reality and imagination. While Bottom is preparing for his role in Pyramus and Thisbe, the play exemplifies his understanding of society. The understanding of society’s ways shows how he understands that he must be great in order for Titania to love her. His aspiration to be the best actor suggests how he wants to have a higher role in society. Although this is a fantasy it shows his need to weave the two worlds together. Ironically his name is bottom the weaver. Bottom’s relates to the struggle of being on the bottom which suggests his complete open-mindedness of society. Bottom’s openness to the world suggests his visit to the fairy realm, which is another fantasy, shows that this comedy is just a story. Bottom’s belief in the theater, which is shown through his characters being too realistic to suggest his belief in the power of a story, fantasy. This belief in the power of a fantasy suggests he understand that his dream to be in the higher class will ultimately fail. His failing of becoming in the higher class suggests he is the most down-to-earth character. Is it because his name suggests he is at the bottom, so he is down-to-earth. Bottom’s life may seem like he is at