What Is The Conflict In A Midsummer Night's Dream

In the story, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, four young lovers experience hardships when it comes to their love. Hermia and Lysander are in love, but her father, Egeus, wants her to marry Demetrius. Demetrius is in love with Hermia, but despite his feelings, Helena is in love with him. Throughout the story, the lovers have to overcome many conflicts, such as a mishap with a love potion. All of the complications have one thing in common. They all represent that the quote, “The course of true love never did run smooth” (1. 1. 134) is a central theme of the play. In the story Oberon and Titania, King and Queen of the fairies have an argument. Titania adopted an Indian boy and Oberon became jealous. Oberon wanted the Indian boy and refused to engage with her unless she gave the child up, but Titania still refused. Titania then went to the woods, with her fairies. In the woods she ordered her fairies to sing her to sleep. Oberon decided to get revenge on her, if she wanted to hurt him then he planned to hurt her worse. He ordered his servant Puck to retrieve him a pansy flower. The pansy is also known as a love flower, it contained a special juice that would cause the victim to fall in love with the first person they lay eyes on. Oberon was hoping she would fall in …show more content…
Oberon and Titania are in love, but experience a small argument that is crucial to their relationship. Hermia and her father Egeus argue over the man she will marry, Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius experience multiple conflicts that seem to be a continuing pattern. In the end, all the situations come to a resolution and things get worked out. All the situations in the story represent the quote, “The course of true love never did run smooth” (1. 1. 134). The events and the quote show that love is never