A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written by William Shakespeare, has a unique storyline that focuses on the theme of love. This becomes a major conflict for the characters to overcome because this conflict confuses the characters. However, the characters always seem to be protected by some element of magic or parental control. A Midsummer Night’s Dream exhibits love this love is portrayed in innumerable ways. These different types of love can be perplex and hard to identify, but they all lead to the intriguing events that occur. The three main types of love presented in this play are parental forced love, unrequited love, and real love. The love presented throughout the play adds to the exciting storyline. To illustrate, parental love is often
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Their love is definitely real love and is illustrated throughout the performance. “Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour / Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in / Another moon. But, O, methinks how slow / This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires / Like to a stepdame or a dowager long withering out a young man’s revenue” (Shakespeare 1.1 1-6). Theseus expresses his eagerness to marry his fiancé. His wedding day is very close, however, the days feel very long. This relationship shows how real love and unrequited love differ because unrequited love is ultimately forbidden and would never be accepted. An example of unrequited love would be when Oberon, the king of the fairies, orders Puck to place a love potion on two of the lovers. Mistakenly, Puck applies it to the wrong lover, Lysander. He instantly falls in love with Helena. However, she assumes that Lysander is making fun of her. Therefore, she refuses to believe that both boys love her/You do advance your cunning more and more. / When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray! / These vows are Hermia’s. Will you give her o’er? (Shakespeare 3.2 130-132). Puck’s mistaken love potion further complicates a difficult situation regarding the lovers. Helena tells Lysander that he has made the same promises to Hermia and that they both cannot be
Their love is definitely real love and is illustrated throughout the performance. “Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour / Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in / Another moon. But, O, methinks how slow / This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires / Like to a stepdame or a dowager long withering out a young man’s revenue” (Shakespeare 1.1 1-6). Theseus expresses his eagerness to marry his fiancé. His wedding day is very close, however, the days feel very long. This relationship shows how real love and unrequited love differ because unrequited love is ultimately forbidden and would never be accepted. An example of unrequited love would be when Oberon, the king of the fairies, orders Puck to place a love potion on two of the lovers. Mistakenly, Puck applies it to the wrong lover, Lysander. He instantly falls in love with Helena. However, she assumes that Lysander is making fun of her. Therefore, she refuses to believe that both boys love her/You do advance your cunning more and more. / When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray! / These vows are Hermia’s. Will you give her o’er? (Shakespeare 3.2 130-132). Puck’s mistaken love potion further complicates a difficult situation regarding the lovers. Helena tells Lysander that he has made the same promises to Hermia and that they both cannot be