Power Of 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.

“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.

Next, to contradict with another view of Cutis, who asserts a similarity between the “Theseus-Hippolyta” relationship and the “Oberon-Titania relationship,” I will prove that the extreme meanness of Oberon to Titania is of another kind, in that Oberon is capable of sympathizing with Titania, and in that the meanness of Oberon comes from his overabundant love for Titania (Cutis 183). Under a fairy land setting, “a place of confused

Love can be quite chaotic at times. As much as poets and songwriters promote the idea of idyllic romantic love, the experience in reality is often fraught with emotional turmoil. When people are in love, they tend to make poor decisions, from disobeying authority figures to making rash, poorly thought-out choices. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses various motifs to illustrate how love, irrationality, and disobedience are thematically linked to disorder.

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.

True love’s path is paved with every step. Through the assistance of fanciful elements as well as characters Puck and Oberon, the true message of love in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is revealed. The four lovers know the direction in which their hearts are inclined to turn, but when the love potion is administered, the bounds of their rectangle are thrashed without knowledge or consent. The rapid shifts in affection between the play’s “four lovers” is representative of the idea that love isn’t a conscious choice, but a cruel game in which we are the figurines, being controlled by whomever the player may be, relating the characters’ karmic fates.

In Act II Scene 1, you are introduced to Oberon, the reigning king of the fairies, to Puck, Oberon’s servant of sorts, and to Titania, the queen of the fairies. Oberon and Titania are in a quarrel over a young boy, which Titania currently has possession of. Oberon desperately wants to have the boy from Titania, despite her repetitive negative answers. Oberon then turns to his ways of magic, seeing as he is the king of the fairies. He orders Puck to go find a flower he describes as “…now purple with love’s wound”, to use to distract Titania (Crowther). “The juice from this flower, when placed on the eyelids, can cause the person to fall in love with the first thing they next see” according to Oberon’s magical knowledge (Dowd). Oberon, then seeing how Helena chases after

How does William Shakespeare use the play to make the audience think about aspects of love through the play ‘Midsummer Nights Dream?

By the time Theseus reappears at the end of the play, however, he and Hippolyta seem genuinely and mutually happy together, and he presides over a magically resolved triple wedding in which everyone gains their heart's desire. Hippolyta is the Amazonian Queen and, is set to marry Theseus. Hippolyta is not heavily involved in the play but does sound impatient to get married to Theseus. Titania is the Queen of the fairies and is a delicate creature, fond of elegant song and dance and provides a train of equally lovely spirits. When she first appears in the play, she is angry at her "husband," Oberon, who is continually demanding that she give him one of her attendants, an "Indian Boy" whose mother had been one of her worshippers and has past away.

(Introduction Oberon and type of love) “I’ll watch Titania when she is asleep / And drop the liquor of it in her eyes. / The next thing then she waking looks upon / Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, / On meddling monkey or on busy ape / She shall pursue it with the soul of love” (II.i.181-186). (ANALYSIS Oberon risks losing Titania’s love as her love for the boy makes him jealous and how they affect the forest)

While reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, I ran into several different types of love. I ran into three main types, there was romantic love, friendship love, and forced love. My goal for this expository paper is to explain to you, the reader, the several different types of love, who they are between, and what they mean.

Throughout history, many things have changed. Humans have completely altered the standards of living, and inventions such as electricity have even created separate realms of reality. However, one thing that has stood the test of time is love. Even from the start of time, humans have been seeking it, falling in and out of it, and creating art, stories, and plays about it. One play in particular is “Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare. In this play, Shakespeare articulates how love is either changing, unrequited, or true.

“Wuv, Tru Wuv, Will Fowow You Foweva…” Quote by Clergyman in The Princess Bride (A discussion on the messages of love portrayed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Thousands of human beings in the world today consider love to be one fantastic night, or a fairy tale. Love cannot be bought and is not as simple as “happily ever after.”

Additionally, love is focused; people do not bounce around from one relationship to the next and call it love. Also, love is patient and kind; it is not forced and it should not be rushed. In addition, love should not fail, yet love in the comedy fails often. Finally, Clemen's essay points out how Shakespeare makes the characters seem like puppets, as if they are being controlled, when in reality love is out of control. Therefore, love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is portrayed as

A William Shakespeare play called A Midsummer Night’s Dream is based off how dreams are part of reality, even if they’re not real. The play is a short magical story about four lover that have a conflict of the two men, Demetrius and Lysander, loving the same girl, Hermia, while the other lover, Helena is rejected by Demetrius’ love. Then a group of fairies try to fix this conflict of love by using Cupid’s flower, which when touch to any animal’s eye when their sleeping it makes the animal fall in love with the next creature they see. The conflict of love in this play empathizes the theme of love never running smooth.