Examples Of Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

To Dream is To Love

True love is never as easy as it may seem. Society today is all about finding “the one” but in reality, over 30% of Americans have never found true love. During the Elizabethan Era, it was considered very foolish to marry someone for love. Arranged marriages were always set up by the parent and it was usually to the son or daughter of a neighbor or friend. You were always more likely to have a happy marriage when you put your love life in the hands of your parents (Ross). In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses setting to express that releasing your fantasies, although disrupting the path, will help you to find your true love quicker than staying in reality. The four main lovers of the play- Hermia, Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius- have experienced life in both the real world and the dream world and they all ended

The dream world always correlates with hostility, and the king and queen of it are no different. Their love life in the story is one big downhill plot until the very end, where they make up and love each other once again. It starts with Oberon wanting to steal Titania’s best friends’ baby. She “made him all her joy” (2.1.28) and wanted Oberon to have nothing to do with that poor, changeling boy. Just to reciprocate the hurt, Oberon deceives her by making her “enamoured with an ass” (4.1.78) or very confused so that she would stop caring about the boy long enough for him to steal him. By Act 4, everything turns around, for Oberon reverses the love potion and Titania loves Oberon with all of her heart again. The thought of having loved a donkey traumatized her right back into Oberon’s arms. As shown clearly by the evidence above, Titania and Oberon are able to bond through hardships, but they have never had any real order in which to compare the deceit and