A Midsummer Night's Dream Compare And Contrast

Love is Not an Easy Course The two couples love in this play are tested numerous times. In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare reveals how love is not a straight narrow road. He proves this by purposely creating problems between them. The first couple consists of, Helena and Demetrius. The other couple is Hermia and Lysander. As the author creates chaos between the lovers, it shows how love is a bumpy road. These two couples compare and contrast each other in multiple different ways. Three comparing and contrasting examples include, Hermia and Helena are best friends, Demetrius and Lysander both love Hermia, and, Helena is jealous of Hermia. Throughout the play, these relationships change immensely when many different obstacles are thrown upon their course of love. Shakespeare attempts to communicate this recurring theme of, true love is an unpredictable journey that follows no reason. Helena and Hermia are best friends. When Shakespeare insights chaos between the two best friends by involving a love potion to help fix the current struggle, yet it opposes what he actually meant for the outcome. This causes a fight to break out between Hermia and

This reveals another way the author is attempting to stir up chaos between the two best friends. One example is when Helena says, “Call you me “fair”? That “fair” again unsay. Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair!” (1.1.184-185). This quote reveals how Helena is reacting to her love, Demetrius, who no longer loves her, but, her best friend. For another example, Helena expresses her jealousy when talking to herself by saying, “For, ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne, He hailed down oaths that he was only mine; And when this hail some heat Hermia felt, So he dissolved, and show’rs of oaths did melt.” (1.1.248-251). This portrays Helena's hurt feelings by Demetrius leaver her to be with Hermia by blaming her for being prettier than she