Mid Summer Nights Dream

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Throughout William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, the characters represent opposing views on love. Shakespeare did this in order to allow each person in the play to have someone they could relate to and show that not everybody feels love the same way.

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In 'Romeo and Juliet', Shakespeare portrays different aspects and types of love in many ways. The obvious love is the fateful love between Romeo and Juliet although the play also displays platonic love, maternal love and aspects of adolescent love.

In conclusion, Shakespeare shows us that love has two faces. One face shows us that love can be beautiful and can bring happiness, the other shows a darker and more painful side where love can be heartbreaking and mournful.


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Shakespeare’s definition of love can be found in one of his most famous sonnets, sonnet 116, where he is certain that, ‘Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks/ But bears it out even to the edge of doom,’ (lines 11 & 12) indicating that true love can withstand time and does not change. Within this couplet, Shakespeare is very certain in the lasting effect of love and in turn, inspires many women to search for an unconditional love. The idea of something such powerful as chasing love can be expressed within, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, through the innocent and naive character of Juliet. Juliet is a passionate young woman who is the daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet, which are the leaders of one of the feuding families within the text.

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Furthermore, Titania complains due to Oberon’s actions, she and her fairy friends have been unable to meet anywhere for their usual dancing and frivolity without being disturbed. In order to further expand the point of the irrationality of love to the audience, Shakespeare continues to use hyperbole to express her intense feelings. Titania reasons that because of Oberon’s insistence on taking the Indian boy as his knight, there is no place for her to meet—not “on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, by pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook, or in the beachèd margent of the sea” (Shakespeare II.i.86). His continual interruptions have prevented their dances and moreover, his revenge has brought about terrible consequences for the human mortals. As Shakespeare details the affects, he imaginatively uses personification to describe the pale moon in her anger filling the air with disease and the icy winter wearing a crown of summer flowers in mockery. As Titania’s closes her long rant directed at Oberon, she concludes by confessing, “And this same progeny of evils comes from our debate, from our dissension, we are their parents and original” (Shakespeare II.i.118). As a

Titania and her husband Oberon are shown arguing over ‘A lovely boy, stol’n from an Indian king –’ (II.i.22) who is her possession. As she is refusing to hand over this changeling child, Titania is showing Oberon, that they are equals, ‘am I not thy lord/Then I must be you lady;’ (II.i.63-64), she retaliates showing him that they are equals, which when Shakespeare was writing this was far from the social norm. During their argument in Act 2, Titania uses natural world imagery to argue her case, that she should keep the changeling child and for their argument to cease. She says that "the winds, piping us in vain, /as in revenge have suck'd from the sea" (II.i.87-88) which suggests that she is angrier than normal as a wind coming of the sea is more powerful than a normal wind. This use of natural metaphors tells us that the characters of Oberon and Titania are unpredictable and dangerous because of the power they have as King and Queen of the fairies.

With his background as a military child he must have seen a lot of things and heard a lot of real stories as he moved from base to base with his family. He must have, somewhere along the line, decided that people needed to hear those stories, regardless of how hard they are to hear. It seems he decided that he didn't want to lie to people about how love and life really is as Shakespeare and countless others have for years. You can see this not only in this play but in several others such as Fool for Love and Savage/Love. In both of these plays as well you see issues that come up in relationships, including some that are quite controversial like the ideas presented in Fool for love of love between siblings