The course of true love never did run smoothly. One of the important themes in the play is love. Shakespeare explores three main elements in love. He writes about forced love, falling in love for the wrong reasons and falling inline with the first person they see.
A key theme in the play is love. People can be made to fall in love with the first person they see when a magic love juice that is found in a sunflower is applied to their eyes, this is trying to show the idea that love is blind. This is represented in two different ways throughout the play. In one example Titania falls completely in love with bottom. This represents the way people try to kid themselves that someone is something they are not. It is also shown in anther scene when Helena falls involve with Demetrius, even though he …show more content…
Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander causing a conflict amongst four lovers. Demetrius says “I love the not, therefore pure me not because i cannot meet my Hermia. Hencie get the gone and follow no more.” Because he is fed up with Hermia following him everywhere, love triangles occur in many countries around the world because in many occasions two or more of one gender will like one person of the other gender.
Titania and bottom experience one of the most common difficulties of love falling in love for all the wrong reasons. Titania only loves bottom because she has been put under a spell by her jealous husband Oberon. “The juice on its sleeping eyelids will make a man or a women madly date upon the next living creature that is seen.” Bottom only loves Titania because Titania orders the Fairies to cater him and Titania is an attractive women that has suddenly taken a shine to him. Many people fall in love in todays society because they have been tricked and the person they fall in love with is not who they