Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare, three completely different situations that have to do with different topics become intertwined in the magical forest locates in the suburbs of Ancient Athens. Throughout the play, there are many representations of the character’s emotions and feelings, such as jealousy, betrayal, and most importantly, love. The main reason everyone get into their troubles is due to one reason; love. Hermia and Lysander made a decision to elope because of their love for each other; Demetrius chases after her because he loves her; Helena chases Demetrius due to love, etc. In this comedy of Shakespeare’s, love is displayed as something fantastical and bizarre.

Love is a timeless topic which Shakespeare explores in depth in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream “. Shakespeare utilizes the format of a play within a play to communicate the complexities of love. Love is a force that characters cannot control. The play includes scenes of lovers searching for fulfillment in the arms of characters who are unavailable. The magic love potion wreaks havoc between actual lovers and it is clear just how negatively it is portrayed. The entire play revolves around the difficulties of maintaining love and how foolish and insecure the pursuit of love can make us. It also touches on the fickleness of love, that love can be

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

Love. Almost everyone experiences this at least one time in their life. But sometimes people can feel as if they are victims of love rather than partners. One example can be seen in a Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare. With the characters of Demetrius, Lysander, and Helena.

Everyone in this play is in love but not all of them have it go their way. Lysander is one of the lovers who loves Hermia but can not marry her because of Hermias father Egues. Egues does not agree to the marriage of Lysander and Hermia and wants her daughter to marry Demetrius. Later on Theseus the king of Athens finds out that hermia is not obeying her father and tells her to obey her father or become a nun. Hermia then plans with Lysander in the woods to run away from Athens to Lysanders aunts house outside Athens. As they meet in the woods they start to run away from Athens, as they are running away from Athens they lose their way so they decide to spend the night in the woods. When Demetrius is looking in the for Hermia and Lysander,

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.

A Midsummer’s Love “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged cupid painted blind.” (Shakespeare, act 1) Shakespeare had a way with words and a story line full of romance. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream there is a range of characters falling in or falling out of love- due to magic or from the forces of nature. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is filled with different types of love such as romantic love, friendship love, and unrequited love.

Another example of Love present in the play is unrequited love. This love is presented through the characters Helena and Demetrius. Helena is deeply in love with Demetrius, but

An important point that is learned is that love cannot be forced. Hermia’s father Egeus, strongly wanted Hermia to marry only Demetrius. He did not want Lysander and Hermia to be married even though they love each other. He believes only Demetrius is entitled to and her tries to force Hermia into marrying Demetrius.

The love between Lysander and Hermia is that of a forbidden love. Unlike Oberon and Titania, they are at the beginning of their relationship. They believe they are deeply in love with each other will fight together against anyone who is opposed of their love. “The course of true love never did run smooth”( 1.1.134). They are forbidden by Hermia's father to be together and in addition to that, Hermia is forced to choose between marrying the man her father chose for her who is Demetrius, nunnery and execution.The love between Lysander and Hermia is unlike the love between Demetrius and Helena which is unrequited. Helena is in love with Demetris who neglects her, but loves Hermia and therefore is forced to chase him which is against her nature because it is the man that is supposed to do the chasing. Their relationship appears to be that of a cat and mouse. Quite ironic that Helena is a mouse, but instead of running away from the cat, she runs towards the cat despite the cat threatening her virginity and treats her cruelly. “ And/even for that do I love you the more./I am your spaniel. And, Demetrius,/The more you beat me, I will fawn on you./Use me but as your spaniel—spurn me, strike me,/Neglect me, lose me. Only give me leave,”( 2.1.202-206). Helena is so consumed with gaining Demerius’ love that she offers herself as a dog for him

To start off the play, sympathy is generated for Lysander and Hermia when they are forbidden to get married. After Hermia’s father complains to Theseus about the love between the young couple, Theseus says that Hermia’s options are, “Either to die the death or to abjure /Forever the society of men.” (1.1) To the audience, both of these options seem outlandish and overly severe, thus generating sympathy towards Hermia’s cause. This sympathy is directed towards her desire to marry the one she loves, thus it is directed towards the pursuit of love.

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

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

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare explores the subjectivity of love. The play shows the absurdity of love through its characters like an episode of “MTV The Real World”: they fall in love, break up, lose friendships, and someone will ultimately look like an ass. Shakespeare’s play examines the combination of both traditional and non-traditional gender roles affecting the character’s perception of their respective romantic relationships. Shakespeare then questions whether love is real through Lysander and Helena. Shakespeare’s play as a whole demonstrates how initial perceptions of love are subject to transformation. Both the characters and the play debunk that love is static, but rather an ever metamorphosing reality.

Everyone has their different definitions of love, some of these definitions can be positive, negative, and some could care less. No one truly knows what love is or even how to describe love in any way. One thing is for certain, though, love can make people do crazy stunts or acts in irrational ways because they are utterly in love with their significant other. It is not only between the love of a couple, but also in the love of two friends that are so close, but it can’t stop them from being just cruel to each other over a simple action. Shakespeare demonstrates that love can make anyone act foolish, heartless, and joyous no matter who they are or what they, but he also shows that love can make one be foolish, heartless and joyous at the same time. In the play, Midsummer Night’s Dream, it can be shown in different forms with the pairs of Helena and Hermia, Helena and Demetrius, Titania and Bottom.