How Is Love Presented In A Midsummer Night's Dream

When people normally think of love, they probably think of butterflies in the stomach, mushy gushy feeling, and everything being perfect. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, love is represented in completely different ways. Four of the main women are all in relationships, but they all represent a different type of love.

Hermia is one of the four women in a relationship, but she has a special type of love. Her relationship with Lysander shows a types a true love, yet a young and more naive type of true love. She was willing to go to great extents for each other, even if it meant being put in danger. Hermia showed her love by running away and being with Lysander, rather than obeying her father and marrying someone she wasn’t in love

Like Hermia and Lysander, the two are early in their relationship and have yet to mature and grow even further in that love. Although there are similar aspects of the two relationships, Helena and Demetrius still share a different type of love. Love like this is a type that gets stronger over time, opposed to Hermia, who had more of a “love at first sight”. Helena said, “To die upon the hand I love so well” because would have been enough for her even if he killed her (Shakespeare 2.1). She loved Demetrius even when he did not love her back, who instead threatened her and claimed that he hated her. Even though he says these things, he loves her back by the end of the play. Granted, he might not have felt those feelings if he did not get them from the magic powers, but that love still has symbolism. Feelings of love do not also happen right away, it could take months or even years. Helena being loyal is like a person who is in love with someone who does not love them back, but that person does not get discouraged, and instead lets that love grow more and more intense. Over time that other person may grow to love them back, like Demetrius, and that love may became even stronger than a true love. Love like this is strong because it prevails, and does not die when it seems as if it were destined to fail. Even though Helena and Hermia both have a young love, not

Her bond with Oberon, seems like a “tough love”, where they really do love each other, but they also seem to fight like cats and dogs. Like Hippolyta, Titania is very independent, and does not let Oberon make her decisions, or at least she does not freely let him. Although she loves Oberon, she did not want to give him the Indian boy. Love shows that just because someone is in a relationship does not mean they have to be controlled by it, and that they may not always get along either. Relationships are usually rocky, and people do not always see eye to eye on everything. Nothing is wrong with a bit of fighting sometimes, and in the end, it may even help the relationship to grow stronger. If two people are able to get over a fight, it may help them to understand the other better, and see where they are coming from. Titania, just like the other women, has her own unique type of