“The course of love never did run smooth”
In the Midsummer Night’s Dream, love isn’t easy to live out, there is always that one person or event that places an obstacle in its path. Shakespeare portrays love through a series of obstacles, suffering and heartbreak. It is almost rare to see a couple that didn’t face barriers throughout the course of their love story. One will find that almost all the couples face and overcome the obstacle in order to live out their love. Truly, the course of love never did run smooth as shown through the relationships of Hermia and Lysander as well as Titania and Oberon in the Midsummer Night’s dream.
If one takes a closer look at Hermia and Lysander’s relationship, it starts out well, they love and care for each other but they are facing a major problem, that is, the fact that Hermia’s dad wants her to marry Demetrius instead of Lysander.”Full
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Helena gets to the point where she belittles herself to a dog,”What worser place can I beg in your love and yet a place of high respect with me than to be usèd as you use your dog?”. As Helena follows Demetrius, he gets fed up with it that he threatens her to do something bad to her in the forest they were in.”...Or if thou follow me, do not believe but I shall do thee mischief in the wood”. This statement shows how one sided their relationship is. Many couples tend to face this type of problem whereas only one individual is deeply involved in the relationship than the other, this leads to conflicts, disputes, miserable and unhappy couples . In this case Demetrius doesn't even want to get in a relationship and he is very choleric at the fact that Helena loved him and he wanted to get rid of her by any