What Is The Motif Of Nature In A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Essay Love can drive people to commit unimaginable actions. Romantic lovers often only think of each other in the moment and forget about everyone else that they care about. Sometimes, people hurt the ones closest to them obliviously because love warps the human mind and naturally makes people unaware of others they may affect. In the Elizabethan Era romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare uses the motif of nature to reveal how love can drive people to behave unpredictably and hurt others they care about. When people fall in love, their unthinkable words surprise those around them, even the one that they love. Lysander’s words, “Not Hermia, but Helena I love./Who will not change a raven for …show more content…
In the performance of Pyramus and Thisbe, both Pyramus and Thisbe commit strange actions because of their profound love. On the mistaken assumption that Thisbe dies, Pyramus says, “Come, tears, confound!/Out, sword, and wound/The pap of Pyramus;/Ay, that left pap,/Where heart doth hop./Thus die I, thus, thus, thus./Now I am dead;/Now I am fled;/My soul is in the sky./Tongue, lose thy light!/Moon, take thy flight!/Now die, die, die, die, die” (V.i.311-322) before he kills himself. Pyramus’ last speech before he passes mentions the moon and nature as they disappear with his life. With death as a last-minute decision, Pyramus has no time to consider those he may hurt and the trouble he may create with his suicide. Likewise, after the discovery of Pyramus’ death, Thisbe says, “Come, trusty sword./Come, blade, my breast imbrue./And, farewell, friends./Thus Thisbe ends./Adieu, adieu, adieu” (V.i.360-364). Similarly to Pyramus, Thisbe does not take into consideration the harm she does or the chaos she causes in the commission of suicide because of her strong depth of love with the one she dies