How Athens begets the Wild: The Heart vs. the Mind Love! An intense feeling of deep affection, or a person or thing that one loves, or to feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to (someone). There’s many levels and types of “ love ”, people can define or explain it in many ways. The feeling can make things change, it can make people change, it can cause feelings of hatred or adoration, it can make people act like fools. It can add meaning to life, it can cause ultimate sacrifices, it can cause serious problems, or it can solve all problems. To some love is the ultimate truth.
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged cupid painted blind ” This quote is an excerpt from William, Shakespeare's play Midsummer Night’s Dream I feel that it means that love looks over all lies, it does not become mistaken, love will conquer all. It is the truth. I feel that in Shakespeare's play, A MidSummer Night’s Dream the general meaning of love is the truth that finds them all. The play I believe embodies the idea of heart vs mind. Or love against reasoning. In all fairy tales it seems like the main conflict is always true love against reasoning. Or the way it should happen vs the way the characters really want it to happen. In the end true love/ destiny always finds them all. The meaning of love is the primary concern of the play, which begins as Theseus and Hippolyta plan for their upcoming wedding. In A MidSummer Night’s Dream the castle and the forest, are symbolic objects that define the play. …show more content…
The castle symbolises the obligations, duties, and rules involved in the characters lives. While the forest symbolises no worries, truth, where the heart can roam free. The castle is very formal and everything is proper. Especially how they dress and how they talk to one another expresses how proper the choose to be. While in the forest they wear less clothing, and their faces of the lovers are dirty and everything they say is improper and wild. Their hair is wild, the clothing and mud is wild on their faces. Their decisions and thinking also seem to be wild compared to their reasoning in the castle where they think clearly and make the right choices. That would be the effect of the love potion the fairy puck applied to the lovers, or the restraints of the dreadful castle is finally lifted. And they can finally be their true selves. The lovers choose to look over consequences as they elope to the forest, this is a prime example showing that love creates bad judgement. It creates bad decisions. On (pg 1232, Act V) Theseus while in the palace delivers a speech stating the lines: “ More than cool reason ever comprehends The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are all imagination all compact.” In his speech, Theseus connects the imaginations of lovers, lunatics, and poets : All three see beyond the line “ cool reason ” and all are troubled by fantasies. The lunatic drives heaven into hell, the lover shapes beauty into the ugliest face. And the poet, meanwhile, creates worlds just from imagination. Theseus somehow connects these three to the situation the lovers have created, his idea focusing around the words fantasy and imagination. I think the forest equals fantasy, everything that happens in the forest could be considered a fantasy. What if with what happened in the forest, they just imagined? They were all drugged after all, they could have hallucinated the whole thing. Fairies are could also be considered part of the fantasy, they are dubbed to be not real. So how do we know that the situation really did happen? Was the love real? In this drama, love is based entirely on looks, upon attractiveness, or upon the love potion that charmed the eyes. Thus, for example when Hermia realises Lysander had lost affection for her. She instantly compared herself to Helena noticing how much shorter she is compared to her. Demetrius was also charmed by the love potion, causing himself to fall in love with Helena. But his feelings wasn’t true, they were altered. So his love wasn’t real, and neither
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged cupid painted blind ” This quote is an excerpt from William, Shakespeare's play Midsummer Night’s Dream I feel that it means that love looks over all lies, it does not become mistaken, love will conquer all. It is the truth. I feel that in Shakespeare's play, A MidSummer Night’s Dream the general meaning of love is the truth that finds them all. The play I believe embodies the idea of heart vs mind. Or love against reasoning. In all fairy tales it seems like the main conflict is always true love against reasoning. Or the way it should happen vs the way the characters really want it to happen. In the end true love/ destiny always finds them all. The meaning of love is the primary concern of the play, which begins as Theseus and Hippolyta plan for their upcoming wedding. In A MidSummer Night’s Dream the castle and the forest, are symbolic objects that define the play. …show more content…
The castle symbolises the obligations, duties, and rules involved in the characters lives. While the forest symbolises no worries, truth, where the heart can roam free. The castle is very formal and everything is proper. Especially how they dress and how they talk to one another expresses how proper the choose to be. While in the forest they wear less clothing, and their faces of the lovers are dirty and everything they say is improper and wild. Their hair is wild, the clothing and mud is wild on their faces. Their decisions and thinking also seem to be wild compared to their reasoning in the castle where they think clearly and make the right choices. That would be the effect of the love potion the fairy puck applied to the lovers, or the restraints of the dreadful castle is finally lifted. And they can finally be their true selves. The lovers choose to look over consequences as they elope to the forest, this is a prime example showing that love creates bad judgement. It creates bad decisions. On (pg 1232, Act V) Theseus while in the palace delivers a speech stating the lines: “ More than cool reason ever comprehends The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are all imagination all compact.” In his speech, Theseus connects the imaginations of lovers, lunatics, and poets : All three see beyond the line “ cool reason ” and all are troubled by fantasies. The lunatic drives heaven into hell, the lover shapes beauty into the ugliest face. And the poet, meanwhile, creates worlds just from imagination. Theseus somehow connects these three to the situation the lovers have created, his idea focusing around the words fantasy and imagination. I think the forest equals fantasy, everything that happens in the forest could be considered a fantasy. What if with what happened in the forest, they just imagined? They were all drugged after all, they could have hallucinated the whole thing. Fairies are could also be considered part of the fantasy, they are dubbed to be not real. So how do we know that the situation really did happen? Was the love real? In this drama, love is based entirely on looks, upon attractiveness, or upon the love potion that charmed the eyes. Thus, for example when Hermia realises Lysander had lost affection for her. She instantly compared herself to Helena noticing how much shorter she is compared to her. Demetrius was also charmed by the love potion, causing himself to fall in love with Helena. But his feelings wasn’t true, they were altered. So his love wasn’t real, and neither