Love me, Love me not
(An analysis of messages about love in Midsummer Night’s Dream) The play of sex, drugs, and rock and roll; what are the bets it is focused on the topic of love? Indeed it is, for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play by Shakespeare is a story of the interwoven lives of four sets of lovers on one night in particular. The modern world is infatuated with love, completely obsessed. Kids are dating at earlier and earlier ages, and new texts teach that you must have ‘the one’ to be happy. In the time that Shakespeare wrote this play, the world apparently had a similar focus, though a different way of going about its obsession. Just as the world was different, so relationships worked distinctly in contrast to the current way of things. Parents had the right to choose who their children married without that child’s consent. It was considered disloyal to one’s family …show more content…
The world tries to tell us that love is just going to come along one day and surprise us in its appearance. We don’t have to do anything but be in the right place at the right time, right? Wrong. Midsummer Night’s Dream tells the story of four different couples, mortal and otherwise, but their relationships are far from easy. Take Oberon and Titania for example. They may be ethereal beings, but they sure can get as devious as mortals, if not more so. Titania refuses to give Oberon the little changeling boy he requests, so he tells/reminds Puck of a love flower that they found a while back. After Puck returns, Oberon uses this flower on Titania saying, “What thou seest when thou dost wake, do for thy true love take… Wake when some vile thing is near.” (Act II Scene II lines 29-36). He uses magical forms of deception to get what he wants out of his wife/significant other, of all people. If this is not difficult love, then what
(An analysis of messages about love in Midsummer Night’s Dream) The play of sex, drugs, and rock and roll; what are the bets it is focused on the topic of love? Indeed it is, for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play by Shakespeare is a story of the interwoven lives of four sets of lovers on one night in particular. The modern world is infatuated with love, completely obsessed. Kids are dating at earlier and earlier ages, and new texts teach that you must have ‘the one’ to be happy. In the time that Shakespeare wrote this play, the world apparently had a similar focus, though a different way of going about its obsession. Just as the world was different, so relationships worked distinctly in contrast to the current way of things. Parents had the right to choose who their children married without that child’s consent. It was considered disloyal to one’s family …show more content…
The world tries to tell us that love is just going to come along one day and surprise us in its appearance. We don’t have to do anything but be in the right place at the right time, right? Wrong. Midsummer Night’s Dream tells the story of four different couples, mortal and otherwise, but their relationships are far from easy. Take Oberon and Titania for example. They may be ethereal beings, but they sure can get as devious as mortals, if not more so. Titania refuses to give Oberon the little changeling boy he requests, so he tells/reminds Puck of a love flower that they found a while back. After Puck returns, Oberon uses this flower on Titania saying, “What thou seest when thou dost wake, do for thy true love take… Wake when some vile thing is near.” (Act II Scene II lines 29-36). He uses magical forms of deception to get what he wants out of his wife/significant other, of all people. If this is not difficult love, then what