“And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.” said Bottom (Shakespeare 3,1,7). The story Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy about a group of hopeless romantics with (through the use of love potions, other potions, and dramatic irony) some pretty tricky “relationship issues” to deal with in their lives. Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena are four lovers who are trying to figure out there vicious love circle. Lysander loves Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander, Helena loves Demetrius, Demetrius, used to love Helena, but then fell in love with Hermia. Hermias father Egeus is not happy with Hermia loving Lysander, and wants her to be with Demetrius instead. Hermia then runs off with Lysander into the forest to try to live with each other there in peace. In the forest, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the forest) are trying to figure out their problems of their own. Oberon is mad at Titania for adopting the boy that she did, so he wants to make her fall in love with a …show more content…
One way that it can support my theme is that when Puck was sent to put the potion into Demetrius’s eyes, he put it into Lysanders eye instead but he was not aware of the mistake that he had made. The audience knew that he should not have messed with Lysander and Hermia and just worked on Demetrius and Helena, but Puck did not know that, he was simply the deliverer of the potion. Another way that Dramatic Irony supports my theme is that even though Oberon tried his hardest to make things work out the way he wanted them to with Demetrius ending up with Helena. He even got the potion to work the way that he planned, but in the end, Demetrius ended up with Helena like they were supposed to from the start. This all shows that no matter how much you try to mess with destiny, and no matter how successful you might be. In the end, things will work out like they were supposed to, wether you like it or