Consider the special people you love at this time of your life. Can you imagine how you would feel if they suddenly disappeared or stopped loving you? I am sure that we would all feel devastated. Throughout the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare shows us the many aspects of love and how our affection toward our loved one’s can change so suddenly as we mature. This play forces us to consider what a supposedly absurd and irrational thing love is.
Love symbolizes devotion and trust, and how they contribute to the role of love in the play. When we begin to love someone, we are determined to stay devoted to them forever. This play shows us that perhaps it is not as easy as we think it is to sustain that trust. From the beginning …show more content…
With Robin Goodfellow, the mischievous fairy, skipping through those woods, some sort of problem is bound to arise. The use of magic, and silly mistakes, heavily influences the role of love over the course of the play. Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth.” (I / i / 134). With this in mind, Shakespeare winds a twisted path that affects the role of love, and how the characters act in this play.
Occasionally, love symbolizes confusion and rapid change of heart. It all starts when Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius, and then, without reversing his first mistake, puts the love potion on demetrius’ eyes. Upon waking up, the first person Demetrius saw was Helena, hence making him fall in love with her. At this point, both of the males love Helena, which undoubtedly portrays love as a challenge that requires effort and competition. The role love plays here makes us think about how hard we try to impress people just to gain their affection. At length, love makes us do our best for someone, no matter how difficult it is. However for some people, love just comes by so easily, that it may seem like a dream. Thus for Bottom the weaver, Titania gave him her love so easily it must have felt like a dream. In this part of the play, love shows us that it can be a snap from reality into a dream-like state. Unfortunately, Bottom was being mislead, and the role of love here symbolizes confusion, pointing towards those who use people for their benefit and use love as an excuse to get what they want. Titania was also being mislead because of the magic effect, and through pity, Oberon reversed the spell on Titania and also cleared up all of the problems going on around the woods. Oberon uses magic and altered the effect of love as a tool, to get the indian boy servant from Titania as
Love symbolizes devotion and trust, and how they contribute to the role of love in the play. When we begin to love someone, we are determined to stay devoted to them forever. This play shows us that perhaps it is not as easy as we think it is to sustain that trust. From the beginning …show more content…
With Robin Goodfellow, the mischievous fairy, skipping through those woods, some sort of problem is bound to arise. The use of magic, and silly mistakes, heavily influences the role of love over the course of the play. Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth.” (I / i / 134). With this in mind, Shakespeare winds a twisted path that affects the role of love, and how the characters act in this play.
Occasionally, love symbolizes confusion and rapid change of heart. It all starts when Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius, and then, without reversing his first mistake, puts the love potion on demetrius’ eyes. Upon waking up, the first person Demetrius saw was Helena, hence making him fall in love with her. At this point, both of the males love Helena, which undoubtedly portrays love as a challenge that requires effort and competition. The role love plays here makes us think about how hard we try to impress people just to gain their affection. At length, love makes us do our best for someone, no matter how difficult it is. However for some people, love just comes by so easily, that it may seem like a dream. Thus for Bottom the weaver, Titania gave him her love so easily it must have felt like a dream. In this part of the play, love shows us that it can be a snap from reality into a dream-like state. Unfortunately, Bottom was being mislead, and the role of love here symbolizes confusion, pointing towards those who use people for their benefit and use love as an excuse to get what they want. Titania was also being mislead because of the magic effect, and through pity, Oberon reversed the spell on Titania and also cleared up all of the problems going on around the woods. Oberon uses magic and altered the effect of love as a tool, to get the indian boy servant from Titania as