When you are in love, does it alter your perceptions? Well love can make you do reckless and careless things without noticing. In Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it shows comedic scenes, of which involve the love in between characters. In this play, William Shakespeare portrays the foolishness in love, as it induces the impedement of judgement portrayed by the characters: Helena, Lysander and Titania.
The lack of judgement caused by love is shown through the Helena, who has unrequited feeling for Demetrius. During the scene where Helena helps Demetrius, she prompts asking for Demetrius to love her, “But herein mean I to enrich my pain, / To have his sight thither and back again” (1.1.256-57). Helena has urged feeling for Demetrius …show more content…
After Lysander heard that Hermia must marry Demetrius, Lysander gave the idea, “A time that lovers’ flights doth still conceal, / Through Athens’ gates have devised to steal” (1.1.215-16). Lysander tells Hermia that they should go to his aunt's house who is rich, but with this love, they recklessly escape and tell Helena their plans, not taking consideration of any of the problems that follow. In 1.1.47-129, Theseus said that Hermia would be killed if she does make the decision to marry Demetrius in four days, so Lysander gave the idea to carelessly run away to his aunt's house, where Hermia’s life would be at risk, if she were to be caught, and both would face criminal punishment. In addition, they carelessly told Helena about their plan to be happy forever, where they were risking their lives on Helena who could tell Demetrius about their plans, of which she did. Furthermore, after Lysander and Hermia set out their ways, Lysander states, “Fair love, you faint with wand’ring in the wood, / And to speak troth, I have forgot our way” (2.2.35-6). Lysander was not prepared on how to get to his aunt’s house, and thus, he had got them lost in the woods, with no sense of direction. When Lysander was clouded by the love of Hermia, he acts recklessly to quickly set out before people notices, but with that choice, it left them astray, where it would make it easy for Demetrius to catch on. As a …show more content…
After the love potion was inserted into Titania’s eyes by Oberon, Oberon told puck about his planned which worked “I then did ask for her her changeling child, / Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent” (4.1.57-8). From this, Titania recklessly gave up the changeling boy of who she cared about, without taking a thought about what she is doing as the love for bottom has her in a trance focusing on Bottom who is an ass. Before giving changeling boy to Oberon, she had fallen in love with Bottom at first sight who has an ass head. Just falling in love with an ass headed man is already ludicrous showing that she has lost her sanity. The love makes her recklessly give him all the special treatment from the fairies to just to make him stay. Moreover, even though she dislikes his physical qualities like having an ass head or talking too much. She puts in all the effort to make him perfect like getting her fairies to tie up his tongue because he talks too much. Then her impetuous carries on where she has a romantic encounter with the unworthy ass headed man who is a humiliation for the Fairy Queen, as the love potion had made her chose him. Therefore love can make people make foolish hasty actions which would cause disruptions to them like with Titania.
In conclusion, this shakespearean play displays the foolishness of which recklessness originates from love. Love has caused the risk of Helena’s
The lack of judgement caused by love is shown through the Helena, who has unrequited feeling for Demetrius. During the scene where Helena helps Demetrius, she prompts asking for Demetrius to love her, “But herein mean I to enrich my pain, / To have his sight thither and back again” (1.1.256-57). Helena has urged feeling for Demetrius …show more content…
After Lysander heard that Hermia must marry Demetrius, Lysander gave the idea, “A time that lovers’ flights doth still conceal, / Through Athens’ gates have devised to steal” (1.1.215-16). Lysander tells Hermia that they should go to his aunt's house who is rich, but with this love, they recklessly escape and tell Helena their plans, not taking consideration of any of the problems that follow. In 1.1.47-129, Theseus said that Hermia would be killed if she does make the decision to marry Demetrius in four days, so Lysander gave the idea to carelessly run away to his aunt's house, where Hermia’s life would be at risk, if she were to be caught, and both would face criminal punishment. In addition, they carelessly told Helena about their plan to be happy forever, where they were risking their lives on Helena who could tell Demetrius about their plans, of which she did. Furthermore, after Lysander and Hermia set out their ways, Lysander states, “Fair love, you faint with wand’ring in the wood, / And to speak troth, I have forgot our way” (2.2.35-6). Lysander was not prepared on how to get to his aunt’s house, and thus, he had got them lost in the woods, with no sense of direction. When Lysander was clouded by the love of Hermia, he acts recklessly to quickly set out before people notices, but with that choice, it left them astray, where it would make it easy for Demetrius to catch on. As a …show more content…
After the love potion was inserted into Titania’s eyes by Oberon, Oberon told puck about his planned which worked “I then did ask for her her changeling child, / Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent” (4.1.57-8). From this, Titania recklessly gave up the changeling boy of who she cared about, without taking a thought about what she is doing as the love for bottom has her in a trance focusing on Bottom who is an ass. Before giving changeling boy to Oberon, she had fallen in love with Bottom at first sight who has an ass head. Just falling in love with an ass headed man is already ludicrous showing that she has lost her sanity. The love makes her recklessly give him all the special treatment from the fairies to just to make him stay. Moreover, even though she dislikes his physical qualities like having an ass head or talking too much. She puts in all the effort to make him perfect like getting her fairies to tie up his tongue because he talks too much. Then her impetuous carries on where she has a romantic encounter with the unworthy ass headed man who is a humiliation for the Fairy Queen, as the love potion had made her chose him. Therefore love can make people make foolish hasty actions which would cause disruptions to them like with Titania.
In conclusion, this shakespearean play displays the foolishness of which recklessness originates from love. Love has caused the risk of Helena’s