“Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a story of the many forms and complications of love. We see examples in the play, many types of love from mutual love, forbidden love, unrequited love as well as others. No matter the form, though, one point remains consistent love, as complicated as it is always worth it.
What is love
Love is as vague as it is complex. Much like God, we cannot physically sense love, yet we believe it to be real and we believe it to be what gives our lives meaning. However, despite our profound desire and respect for love, we also understand it can be fickle and fleeting as easily as it can be enduring. Knowing that love may not last, we still pursue it against our better interests or rational judgment as if it were essential to our survival as is exampled in “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” …show more content…
For such obnoxious and grandiose behavior, he is given the head of an ass by Puck a sprite living in the woods. This is the main source of comic relief as a man who behaved as an ass become one.
Friendship Love Although most of the examples of love in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” are romantic, it is important to remember there are other forms of love not connected to sex such as friendship. The fairy queen, Tatiana, devotes her affection to an Indian boy and takes to nurturing him so well he becomes her sole concern. She even begins to neglect her marriage “And now they never meet in grove or green” for the sake of the boy, and all is done for her love of the Indian boy’s mother since she was such a dear friend she now loves friend’s son as if he were her own. “His mother was a votaress of my order”
“And for her sake do I rear up her boy,
And for her sake I will not part with him.”
Vengeful
What is love
Love is as vague as it is complex. Much like God, we cannot physically sense love, yet we believe it to be real and we believe it to be what gives our lives meaning. However, despite our profound desire and respect for love, we also understand it can be fickle and fleeting as easily as it can be enduring. Knowing that love may not last, we still pursue it against our better interests or rational judgment as if it were essential to our survival as is exampled in “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” …show more content…
For such obnoxious and grandiose behavior, he is given the head of an ass by Puck a sprite living in the woods. This is the main source of comic relief as a man who behaved as an ass become one.
Friendship Love Although most of the examples of love in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” are romantic, it is important to remember there are other forms of love not connected to sex such as friendship. The fairy queen, Tatiana, devotes her affection to an Indian boy and takes to nurturing him so well he becomes her sole concern. She even begins to neglect her marriage “And now they never meet in grove or green” for the sake of the boy, and all is done for her love of the Indian boy’s mother since she was such a dear friend she now loves friend’s son as if he were her own. “His mother was a votaress of my order”
“And for her sake do I rear up her boy,
And for her sake I will not part with him.”
Vengeful