Quotes From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

Above all the tensions created by the discussion of marriage, Lysander deliver a quotes to his love Hermia. “The course of true love never did run smooth…” (Act 1, Scene 1, line 134) is a famous quote by Lysander. In the quote he conveys to readers that love is not perfect, it also has its ups and downs and that he and Hermia are going through a tough situation. Hermia and Lysander both love each other and have made a plan to meet in a forest and then escape Athens however the problem arises when Hermia has tells Helena this and she plans to tell Demetrius about this so that he will love her and not Hermia. The King of fairies− Oberon hears all this and decides to settle the dispute between all of them. He instructs his assistant Robin Goodfellow to search for Demetrius and put the love juice on his eyelids so that he is compelled to love Helena, he informs him about the dressing style of Demetrius in "thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on" (Act 2, Scene 1, line 263-264). However there is a problem, in the forest there are two Athenian men dressed in Athenian garments and their identities were mistaken; instead of putting the love juice on Demetrius's eyelids Robin Goodfellow put it on Lysander's eyelids. Now Lysander "loves" Helena and wants to get away from Hermia. After discovering Robin Goodfellow's mistake, Oberon tries to correct this mistake by putting the same love juice in Demetrius's so that he loves Helena eyes however

Demetrius delivers this line in the forest after Helena has provided him with the information concerning Hermia and Lysander's plans to elope. Since Demetrius has taken what he wants from her and tells her to leave him alone. This shows that love can possess a cruel and abusive nature.

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

Shakespeare uses many different themes to present love; relationships, conflict, magic, dreams and fate. Overall, he presents it as something with the ability to make us act irrationally and foolishly. Within A Midsummer Night's Dream we see many examples of how being 'in love' can cause someone to change their perspective entirely. 'The path of true love never did run smooth' is a comment made from one of the main characters, Lysander, which sums up the play's idea that lovers always face difficult hurdles on the path to happiness and will usually turn them into madmen.

William Shakespeare portrays how sometimes love changes as the circumstances change, which indicates that it could not be true love. Throughout the play, several characters change their minds about who they love. For example, when Oberon gives Titania the love potion, she immediately falls in love with Bottom, whom Robin turned into an ass. However, when Oberon gives her the antidote, she “wakes” and her eyes “loathe his visage now” (Shakespeare 4.1.77). Shakespeare puts a comedic twist on the power of “love at first sight,” relating Titania’s bout with Bottom ending as quick as it begun. Often people believe they found their true love only to discover that person is not what’s best for them. Likewise, when Lysander falls victim to the same potion, he declares: “Not Hermia, but Helena I love. Who will not change a raven for a dove?” (2.2.120). Lysander’s fatuation suddenly switches from Hermia to Helena, with his reason being that she’s better looking. Shakespeare is hinting at the fact that people are always chasing the latest and the greatest, be it goods to accessories to love partners, so when someone seemingly better comes around, people often leave whom they previously loved without warning. Additionally, when Demetrius falls under the spell, he denounces his love for Hermia, for now he loves Helena. He claims, “If e’er I loved her, all that love is gone” (3.2.173). Demetrius completely changes his stance on who he loves, and assures Helena he is hers. Shakespeare creates a picture of how people who are quick to love sound in a new relationship, and depicts how fragile their relationship is. Thus, throughout the play and through numerous examples,

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written by William Shakespeare, we are presented Hermia, a young woman of marrying age, who wants to marry her true love Lysander, but her father, Egeus, will not permit their marriage because he believes that another man is amore fit, Demetrius. Although Demetrius and Lysander are of the same social standing, Hermia actually loves Lysander, and Demetrius has been with another woman who is deeply in love with him named Helena, Egeus attempts to use the Athenian law to make Hermia marry Demetrius. Due to the circumstances, Lysander and Hermia run off into the woods to marry and escape Athenian law, but while asleep in the woods, a mischievous fairy, Robin, gives Lysander a love potion, making him fall in love with the first person he sees, which ends up being Hermia’s close friend Helena. This leads to heartbreak, a battle, and a shocking ending, but everything ends well, and along this journey we find many different truths about love. Throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare presents that although love may not always run smoothly, the readers find that power of love can dictate a persons’ decision making and love cannot be controlled by outside forces, like the will of others or the law.

The first pair of lovers that this quote applies to is Hermia and Demetrius. Demetrius ‘loved’ Hermia because he thought she was beautiful. He had no idea about what her personality was like or what her beliefs were because he was too distracted with her beauty (II, ii, 59-61). He truly thought he was in love with her, but he was never in love with her as a person but rather as an image.

Helena wants to be with Demetrius so badly she goes as far as giving up her freedom as she exclaims, "Use me but as your spaniel- spurn me, strike me, neglect me, lose me. " just to attempt to get Demetrius. Helena would rather be treated like a DOG than be without Demetrius! It is obviously true that love is smooth like a cactus if you would sacrifice your freedom for true love. This is significant to Lysander's quotation because Helena is so bothered by the fact that Demetrius doesn't love her that she will give up her freedom for his love.

This creates conflict during the play between Helena and Demetrius. Shakespeare better illustrates Lysander’s true love for Hermia in the quote “ You have her father’s love, Demetrius, let me have Hermia’s”(Shakespeare 93-94). Lysander fights for Hermia against her father’s consent, showing true love for Hermia. The author includes this to show how true love overpowers all laws, rules, and parental

This time he places it on the right person’s eyes, though both Demetrius and Lysander are in love with Helena, so Lysander and Hermias’ true love is still mixed up. When Puck finally places the love potion on Lysander’s eyes once again, he falls back in love with Hermia. Though their true love took a few turns, it finally ended up being okay. Therefore, Lysander’s quote “the course of true love never did run smooth,”(28) occurs for them.

For love is mysterious and can make even a person you thought as calm and collected go through woods and proclaim their love for one another as Demetrius, Lysander, and Helena did. As Lysander states perfectly, "The course of true love never did run smooth."

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

The quote, "The course of true love never did run smooth is true because Demetrius wants to be with Helena, Lysander left Hermia for Helena, and Titaniafell in love with Bottom.

"The course of true love never did run smooth "(1:1:134) developed a theme throughout the play .The quote ran a theme throughout the play . The play is like a catfight and jealousy between lovers .They all want to be able to get married and be with the love of their life , but it's a hard obstacle when their living in a world of fairies and many people who can put love spells . I Agree that the quote “The course of true love never did run smooth “ (1.1.134) did run a theme throughout the book because Hermia and Helena are in a love square with demetrius and lysander .”you draw me,you hard-hearted adamant .but yet you draw not iron,for my heart .is this true as steel .leave your power to your draw ,and i shall have no power to follow

“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.