A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

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A Misummer Night’s Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare. In this play there are multiple themes however the most evident theme is love. Why is love an evident theme? It is an evident theme because the play commences with two Greek mythology characters─ the Duke of Athens, Theseus and Amazon queen Hippolita planning their marriage. However as Theseus plans his marriage he has to help Egeus persuade his daughter Hermia to marry Demetrius. Unfortunately both the Duke and Egeus failed to persuade Hermia into marrying Demetrius so the fairies (another set of characters. The fairies in this play consisted of goddess of chastity and Queen of fairies, Titania and King of fairies Oberon and his assistance Robin Goodfellow) decide to resolve this issue by involving a “western flower” whose juice “ will make…man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature it sees…” Through each and every action of the characters Shakespeare implies that love is makes us crazy, but it moves the world. Love is something that needs to be felt with the heart and once someone feel it, their life can change forever.

If you have loved, you will have realized that love is influential. It makes us do crazy things that we would probably never imagine doing in our lives. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a perfect example of love being influential. As mentioned previously Egeus and Thesues are trying to influence Hermia to marry Demetrius but Hermia does not love this man, she loves another man, Lysander. After realizing that she will not agree, Egeus goes to Theseus. Theseus informs the young lady that if she does not listen to her father she will “either [have] to die the death or to abjure” (Act 1, Scene 1, and Line 65). In this line, Theseus is lay...

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... partner for Hermia and not Demetrius. Lysander loves Hermia so much that he makes the plan of escaping from Athens and marrying her. This is unconditional love because he is unintentionally helping her, regardless of what she gives in return. Unconditional love is selfless, it is love that one gives to another person regardless of what they do in return.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play based on love. Also in this play, there were three types of love shown−love between friends, family members and lovers. Through this play, man can learn many things such as love is influential and that love is strong enough to change the world both positively and negatively bringing readers to the conclusion that love makes us crazy, but it moves the world.

Works Cited

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Seeker of Truths- http://theseekeroftruth.blogspot.ca/2005/02/3-types-of-love.html

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