Shakespeare’s Midsummer night’s dream shows the frailty of human love and affection. Humans are just that- human and love and affection can be mess and tangled at times. The idea and bonds of true love seem prone to desperation and betrayal at the drop of a hat. In Shakespeare’s “A midsummer Night’s Dream”, the themes of love and marriage are continually bound. The play seems to enforce the idea that true love can do no wrong- the ends justify the means in practically any situation. The bonds of true love, which ends in marriage seems to imply that levels of deception are acceptable to any extent- Oberon can ‘blind’ Tatiana to get his way and yet they still are reunited in their natural order at the end of the play, seemingly no love lost between
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Emotions change and can be influenced by social interactions or circumstances like Oberon’s potion from the flower. Hermia and Helena’s lives are both forever changed by what occurs in the woods. Some things may only last for the moment, like a bizarre elaborate dream as the title of the play suggests. The idea of love which is intertwined throughout the poem both tangles people together and sets them apart. In the story, love often seems out of balance- the relationships are far from balanced dynamically between the partners. Theseus’s amazon bride was taken by forced and kidnapped back with him, awaiting their nuptials. Oberon demands things from Titiania that she us unwilling to give until he takes the Indian boy through force and deception. His will to possess the Indian boy seems to be more important than her wishes or even Oberon’s love for her. He would rather use magic to send her off after Bottom than accept her clear answer of no. Arguably, both of the young couple’s feelings are created entirely by Robin Goodfellow’s mistake in the forest. Even the fae characters are portrayed with human chareristics and …show more content…
Emotions change and people do too. People fall in and out of love with each other because lust and emotions can be fickle. Oberon and Titanina have been together for a very long time and it seems that they have somewhat of an open relationship. Oberon’s potion in Titanias eyes is what drives her love/lust of Bottom even though he has the head of a donkey. The spell- or her lust-blinds her to reality and most of everything going on around her. As Allen Lewis states in his article, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Fairy Fantasy or Erotic Nightmare”, the mischief and magic often comes across tinged with sexual connotations. Titana’s lust is directed towards someone who is cursed half man, half donkey when she rebukes her husband and embarrasses Oberon. Her newfound obsession with Bottom is downright sexual. It is not so much that she forgets her husband, Oberon, but more that Titana no longer cares. Oberon has her essentially drugged and then sends her off into the woods while he steals the changling boy. That is not exactly “loving husband” actions yet they reconcile by the end of the story as does everyone else. The two young couples do not actually resolve any problems, as they are also dosed with the magic but never appear to snap out of it. They are “in love”, but how can it be true love when it was simply manufactured by magic? Their form of distorted love is more akin to lust in this
Emotions change and can be influenced by social interactions or circumstances like Oberon’s potion from the flower. Hermia and Helena’s lives are both forever changed by what occurs in the woods. Some things may only last for the moment, like a bizarre elaborate dream as the title of the play suggests. The idea of love which is intertwined throughout the poem both tangles people together and sets them apart. In the story, love often seems out of balance- the relationships are far from balanced dynamically between the partners. Theseus’s amazon bride was taken by forced and kidnapped back with him, awaiting their nuptials. Oberon demands things from Titiania that she us unwilling to give until he takes the Indian boy through force and deception. His will to possess the Indian boy seems to be more important than her wishes or even Oberon’s love for her. He would rather use magic to send her off after Bottom than accept her clear answer of no. Arguably, both of the young couple’s feelings are created entirely by Robin Goodfellow’s mistake in the forest. Even the fae characters are portrayed with human chareristics and …show more content…
Emotions change and people do too. People fall in and out of love with each other because lust and emotions can be fickle. Oberon and Titanina have been together for a very long time and it seems that they have somewhat of an open relationship. Oberon’s potion in Titanias eyes is what drives her love/lust of Bottom even though he has the head of a donkey. The spell- or her lust-blinds her to reality and most of everything going on around her. As Allen Lewis states in his article, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Fairy Fantasy or Erotic Nightmare”, the mischief and magic often comes across tinged with sexual connotations. Titana’s lust is directed towards someone who is cursed half man, half donkey when she rebukes her husband and embarrasses Oberon. Her newfound obsession with Bottom is downright sexual. It is not so much that she forgets her husband, Oberon, but more that Titana no longer cares. Oberon has her essentially drugged and then sends her off into the woods while he steals the changling boy. That is not exactly “loving husband” actions yet they reconcile by the end of the story as does everyone else. The two young couples do not actually resolve any problems, as they are also dosed with the magic but never appear to snap out of it. They are “in love”, but how can it be true love when it was simply manufactured by magic? Their form of distorted love is more akin to lust in this