Midsummer Night's Dream Love

Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The famous William Shakespeare is known as one of the world’s most significant historical figures. In his play, A Midsummer Nights Dream, his point of view regarding the theme of love can be interpreted in a multitude of ways depending on the evidence chosen to follow within the text. One interpretation shows Shakespeares reality of love as transient and irrational, ultimately leading to unhappiness, which to some may seem irrefutable; however, even to this day, the tedious struggles, and truths, of love make for entertaining comedy because of their likeness to real-life experiences. Much of the language and satire shakespeare uses is a solid indicator that he views love as something driven solely by

Compared with Shakespeare's other works, such as Romeo and Juliet, nobody is hurt at the end because comedies aren’t intended to be serious. It also appears as if Shakespeare contradicts the principles of humans completely. The humans in the play are characterized delicately and logically to maintain a desperate and hopeless attitude about their loves and their confusions. Lysander’s famous quote shows this fragility because “if there were a sympathy in choice, \ War, death or sickness did lay siege to it, \ Making it momentary as a sound”, meaning that even if they could choose a different way, all of these inescapable problems will only make their love last a moment(1.1.141-143). While the fragile humans are in the midst of their confusions later on in the play, Shakespeare uses

A world of logic and a world of emotion, both with diverging principles of love. In the logical universe, although love may sporadically come upon a person, they still find logical reasoning behind the love. The humans make up this world. To them love only happens for a reason, and they need to identify that reason. Contrastingly, the fairy world appears to be driven solely by the emotions, and the stirring of the relationships between King Oberon and Queen Titania causes chaos. Unfortunately, the couples in both worlds suffer from relationship issues “but earthlier happy is the rose distilled/than that which withering on the virgin thorn/grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness”(1.1.76-78). Theseus says this at the beginning of the play, trying to persuade his love to marry him rather than living a lonely life. It somewhat foreshadows the ending of the play and shows that despite all the hardships and confusions involved with the couples, they managed to find happiness in the end, which summarizes shakespeare's complete