True Love: The Themes Of Hermia And Lysander

Register to read the introduction… These two lovebirds have always been in love with each other, so much that they decided to elope one day and get married in the woods without anyone knowing. Lysander had a strong love for Hermia, but a love potion was accidentally placed on his eyes causing him to fall in love with Helena and started having a strong dislike towards Hermia. Hermia and Lysander’s relationship represents true love. The course of their love doesn’t run smooth, as stated by Lysander “The course of true love never did run smooth.” (1-1 ll.134). One of the reasons for this situation was Hermia’s father, Egeus. By law Egeus has power over her and what he wants for is daughter is what must happen. Hermia and Lysander's determination brings the two through, again supporting true love as strong. Egeus and the Athenian Law are both obstacles that result in their relationship not running smoothly. True love is mutual, and their decision to elope is also a mutual decision, this seems rash and could imply their love to be passionate. However, their decision to reveal their plan to Helena was foolish and illogical; this shows Hermia and Lysander's love to be young, fun and secretive, though they are excited and both cannot wait to share their secret with their closest friend. Yet this action just proves to result in yet another obstacle, also their youth, perhaps their immaturity and their lack of thinking things through. Despite the obstructions that face the couple, their love succeeds in the end to show true love is strong and cannot be ignored and prevails with determination. After having been under the effect of Puck’s spell, Lysander finds Helena and also starts professing his love to her, and telling her how much she needs her. Helena, seeing that there are two men in front of her that keep on swearing their love to her, bursts into tears and feels that she is becoming a mockery to everyone only because she …show more content…
Oberon, her husband and king of the fairies, decides to put the magic love potion on her eyes so that she too could fall in love with the first person she saw when she awakened. The reason why Oberon decides to pull this trick on Titania is because she had adopted her cleaner’s son, that had passed away, and the cleaner asked her if she could take care of her son as if he were her own. Oberon wants that child so badly because he wants him to become a soldier and teach him about hunting and raise it as if it were his son. Puck decides to cast a funny and mischievous spell on poor Bottom, that had nothing to do with what was going on. Puck gave Bottom a donkey head, with nice long furry ears and a nice shade of soft grayish fur to complete his new look. When Titania awoke from her sleep the first person she sees is Bottom, causing her to fall in love with him rapidly. Bottom doesn’t really like Titania, but she insists that he stay and starts caressing his long ears and says “ (3-1 ll. 144) Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.” Puck and Oberon have fun watching a full grown woman fall hostage of this trickery and, once they think that she has had enough, they annul the love spell on Titania and Puck’s spell on Bottom’s head. The annulment of the spells causes both Titania and Bottom to have no remembrance of what had happened, which shows the strength of the potion Bottom was so confused, but at the same time amused of some small things that he remembered had happened, that he decided to make up a song about