William Shakespeare is a literature renowned writer who composed numerous plays. Even though they were written hundreds of years ago, his stories are still appreciated in the modern days. A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice are just examples that support an underlying tone of love. Both stories uphold a strong vibrant illustration of couples in unconditional love. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream and in The Merchant of Venice you witness similarities among the young couples. While the stories aren’t identical they have a few similarities. The fathers have a key role in determining their daughter’s future and causing them to run away. The fundamental themes of order, disorder and greed are also demonstrated.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream love protagonists are Hermia and Lysander. Hermia’s father protested to the Duke that her daughter was a form of property. Therefore, he maintains the right to choose whom and when she marries. Despite her fathers wishes, Hermia was in love with Lysander. Lysander suggested running away and Hermia approved. Initially their strategy was to arrive at Lysander’s wealthy aunt and live there happily together away from her father, he says, “to that place that sharp Athenian law cannot pursue us… and in the wood, a league within the town, Where I did meet thee ones with Helena”(1.1, 162-166). Lysander running away with Hermia demonstrates Shakespeare theme of order and disorder. Lysander and Hermia’s initial plan was to travel through the
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Hermia and Lysander’s relationship goes through many complexities. Hermia and Lysander want to get married. Unfortunately, Hermia’s father, Egeus, wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. Oberon, the king of the fairies, has control of a flower which can change who you love. Hermia and Lysander have to deal with many obstacles such as the flower, so they can be together. Hermia and Lysander end up together; however, their love is difficult on behalf of Egeus, the Athenian law, and the love flower.
To conclude, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” can be related to many experiences in life, like the weather in St. John’s; it is unpredictable and often deceitful on the inside. Shakespearean plays show the rollercoaster of young lovers falling in love often instantaneous, and their falling out of love. Hermia and Lysander both go through challenging times before they could be with each
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.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare detailed the story between warring characters. From couple conflicts to love quadrilaterals and the interference of outsiders, the story played out as a comedy, with Helena on the receiving end of a running joke. Introduced in Act One as the jealous friend of Hermia, as she was in love with Demetrius, who decided to marry Hermia despite Hermia’s love for Lysander. Hermia appears rather guilty as she confirms her distaste to Demetrius to her friend. However, her father disapproves of her relationship with Lysander. Despite her co-dependent aspirations, Helena exemplifies progressive ideals that counter the societal norms of Midsummer’s era.
Love is the strongest attribute two people can share together. A Midsummer Night's Dream uses love to show how powerful it can be. The four characters, Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena, are the victims of Puck and Oberon's game with love. Puck and Oberon are two fairies who peruse to fix a problem in the story, but they fail and make the problem worse. Throughout the story there are different forms of love characters show towards each other. The forms of love the characters show are Eros love, Philia love, Storge love, Agape love, Ludus love, Pragma love, and Philautia love. The forms of love come from J.A. Lee's book "Colours of Love". In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespear shows the world the how much love really effects people's actions.
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.
Likewise, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, dreams mix with reality in the form of characters and their actions, mainly during the interaction between the Lovers and the Fairies. Hermia, committed to marry Demetrius by her father, Egeus, is instead in love with Lysander. Not desiring to go along with her father's primary plan, Hermia’s only options given to her by her father and Theseus, the dispenser of justice, are “Either to die the death, or to abjure /
William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream tells the story of four Athenian lovers. Hermia’s father wants her to marry Demetrius. However, Hermia wants to marry Lysander. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia’s relationship with Lysander is a result of agency.
Empathy is stronger than sympathy. Humans are more likely to connect emotionally when they’ve been through the same situation themselves. Shakespeare’s works effectively use this with easily relatable and ongoing themes encompassing love and revenge. This further evokes feelings that resonate with readers and cause his literature to be celebrated. Besides these basic emotions and hate, he touches on more general points and illustrates broad speculations. His play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream can be a portrayal with the turmoil in the relationships between 4 lovers and many fairies. Originally, their connection contained fondness that could truly be considered radiant, yet it was quickly disrupted and brought to an end. This is depicted by the
Hermia’s father told his daughter she could marry Demetrius, become a nun, or die. Hermia does not like any of those choices, so rebels against her father and decides to go and marry Lysander, her true lover. Love causes Hermia to choose Lysander, which shows how the human nature of love has controlling powers. However, in the end, Hermia’s father accepts the fact that his daughter has love for Lysander and allows them to marry, but not just because they love each other. The marriage of Hermia and Lysander results from Demetrius falling out of love with Hermia. In Hamlet, Hamlet decides to obey and remain loyal to his father, while in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia decides to go against her father’s requests because of her love for Lysander. While these Shakespearean plays produce two different outcomes between the human nature of love and loyalty, they both show how love controls the loyalty of a person to a loved one.
The Theme of Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare In the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ many aspects of love are explored. In this essay I will be exploring how Shakespeare conveys the theme of love including illusion, confusion, escape, harmony and lust. Historically, it has been suggested that ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was written for a wedding, signifying the importance of love in this play, however there is no real evidence to prove this myth.
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.”
William Shakespeare expresses love through magically, unique choice of words that flows together swimmingly. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing’d cupid painted blind” (Act I, scene 1, line 234). In Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, love is defined as a weapon to undisguised the unknown of one's true love to another. Shakespeare uses Bottom and Titania to portray this form of love. However, he also studies a different type of love, the love between Egeus and Hermia, father and daughter. This essay will analyse how Shakespeare explores the theme of love in the Midsummer Night’s Dream and compare the difference between the two contrasted forms of love.
The Theme of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare presents us with multiple types of love by using numerous couples in various different situations. For example: Doting loves, the love induced by Oberon's potion and in some aspects, Lysander and Hermia's love for each other; there are true loves: Oberon and Titania, Lysander and Hermia (for the first half at least, as Lysander's love switches to Helena temporarily) and Theseus and Hippolyta. Also, there is Helena's love for Demetrius, which could be described as a true love, even though at first it is unrequited.