Comparing Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream And The Princess Bride

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The most complicated human emotion is love. For instance, in Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s dream, and the movie The Princess Bride, love can be expressed in different ways. Shakespeare used his unique language in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to express the knowledge of the “incalculable paradoxes of love” as the founder of archetypal theory, Carl Jung said. In Belsey’s perspective, it reflects the paradoxes of love in true love in The Princess Bride. . “…that it is absurd, irrational, a delusion, or, perhaps, on the other hand, a transfiguration.”(A Modern Perspective 182) The theme of love in The Princess Bride is not as indestructible and admirable as the audience might think. Nonetheless, love was not the only emotion expressed in …show more content…

For Hermia and Lysander, Wesley and Buttercup, their marriages might be a new beginning for them. However, nevertheless Demetrius married Helena, but he actually loved Hermia with his deeper mind. Hippolyta also forced to marry someone that she did not love. As Lysander said, “The course of true love never did run smooth.” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1.1.134-136) It is reflected in The Princess Bride, moreover, Wesley and Buttercup's story might never happen in real life. Love needs sacrifice, sometimes people may yet sacrifice love for their desire. However, true love is worth everything on earth in some people's perspectives, and true love is not to be …show more content…

Both the couples in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Princess Bride had happy endings. All the difficulties they had suffered just like dreams. Wesley's love was true and deep, “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”(The Princess Bride) Lysander's heart to Hermia was sincere as well. Helena knew that Demetrius would not love her no matter how she begged him. Therefore she considered their marriage as a dream, and she would never want to wake up from that dream. People become foolish when they desire for love, love makes them

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