Matthew Kim
Mr. Babcook
ENG3U
18 July 2023
Love in a Midsummer Night’s Dream In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, love is one of the most significant themes in the play with there being many different types of love presented throughout the play, such as infatuated, envious, and false love. However, none of these loves portray the true love that we as Christians believe and understand. Instead, they go against the teachings of love that are taught in scripture. Therefore, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare does not express the true love that Christians understand because it demonstrates infatuated, envious, and false loves that directly oppose Christian teachings.
Infatuated love is demonstrated by Lysander through his love for Helena “Content with Hermia? No, I do repent / The tedious minutes I with
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/ The next thing then she, waking, looks upon / She shall pursue it with the soul of love.” (2.1.184-189). In this quote, Oberon plots to put his wife, Titania, under a spell making her fall in love with a beast and distract her, allowing him to have possession of the changeling Indian boy. This represents envious love because he is desiring possession over a boy that is in Titania’s care and is willing to make his own wife fall in love with another person/creature, in order to have the boy. Envious love does not portray the true Christian love because in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, it says that “It [(love)] does not envy… it is not self-seeking” Oberon’s action goes against the Bible passage says because he envies Titania, doing evil to her behind her back, in order to benefit himself. Therefore, envious love, displayed by Oberon and Titania’s relationship, goes against Christian teachings because they are envious of each other and are selfish, caring only about