What Is Everyone After In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Love is the Quest

Not every love story has a clear, sunset beginning, but that’s how it one should end. Also, not everyone will agree with your love decisions and try to put blocks in your way. When this occurs, we have what’s called tunnel vision and our eyes are only set on the prize. Hints the question: What is everyone after? In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare this play has a lot of different branches leading in many directions but they all lead back to the same tree. We see people struggle to get what they all are after.

In the beginning of the play two people are planning a marriage, we also see a conflict arise for young lovers. Hermia, one of our young lovers, is in love with a man, which her father despises and rather her marry a
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“... thou yet latched the Athenian’s eyes with the love juice, as I did bid thee do?” (William, Act 3. Sc 2). This shows us another idea. In this we see that the goal is to fulfill someone else’s desire for love.

Later, there is a huge chaotic mix up in Oberon’s wishes and both Lysander and Demetrius fall in love with Helena. Robin Goodfellow is forced to fix it and then only Demetrius is the man in love with Helena, ”The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well” (William, Act 3. Sc 2.). This quote is told by Robin Goodfellow when he fixes his mistake. In the end, all the couples marry one another and the whole story comes to a nice, quiet and pretty end. We see all the ones who love each other come together. Also everyone’s goal is achieved. Lysander and Hermia aren’t and can’t be separated. Helena finally gets the love of Demetrius and everyone is happy and content and in love. That’s all these young lovers wanted and that’s exactly what they got, even though it was hard to achieve they still

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