Reality In A Midsummer Night's Dream

In A Mid Summer Nights dream. perception v.s. reality becomes a major aspect of the play because of the contrast of the woods and the city. In the woods there is much deception form the characters and fairies to make the lovers perceive love for each other but unwilling love. The city is full of chaos and people telling each other what they need to do, but un the city the lovers still understood how they felt and had some sort of control over their emotions. Egeus is trying to force his daughter into loving someone she does not love, Egeus can make his daughter do things she does not want to but he cannot make her love someone. In the woods people can use magic to make the lovers think they are in love.
Love is a paradox. Helena loves Demetrius even though he hates her, and vice …show more content…
Attempts at controlling love aren't always going to work the way you want it to. (1.1.138) "the course of love never did run smooth." this quote from Lysander is saying that love doesn't always stay on course, but it does work itself out in the end some how.
The setting of the woods has its own value of freedom, but still has restrictions. The lovers Hermia and Lysander run into the woods to escape the control of people telling them they cant love each other, only to run into an area of much more control. (1.1.160-72) "A good persuasion. Therefore, hear me, Hermia: I have a widowed aunt, a downwager/ Of great revenue, and she hath no child./ From Athens is her house remote seven leagues/ And she respects me as her only son./ There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee;/ And to that place the sharp Athenian law/ Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me, then/ Steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night/ And in the wood league without the town/ Where did I meet thee once with Helena/ To do observance to a morn of May/ There I will stay