Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Although A Midsummer Night’s Dream may have been a comedy, it still included great lines of passionate love. Love can’t be forced; it is a give and take between two people working together to make a relationship work. Every parent wants their children to not make the same mistakes that they did, henceforth they try to guide them in the right direction. Everyone’s looking for love, but most people look for love in the wrong places. Throughout the play of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there were several views on love.

First of all, the story of Pyramus and Thisbe demonstrates the idea that love conquers all obstacles. In the story the two lovers were separated by a wall with a crack, for which they would speak through. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Snout says, “That had in it a crannied hole or chink, Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisbe, Did whisper often, very secretly.” (Act 5 Scene 1, Line #160-163) Despite the fact that the couple had no way of witnessing each other; they still found a way to express their vows of love through the chink in the wall. Devotional love can vanquish any challenges that lay in its path, alas it could leave to a tragic ending.

Specifically Egeus and Hermia are a prime example of parental control. In the play, Egeus states, “Scornful Lysander, true, he hath my love; And what is mine my love shall render him; And she is mine, and all my right of her I do estate unto Demetrius.” (Act 1 Scene 1, Line #97-100) Egeus is treating his daughter as if she was an item about to be bartered away, and not like a loving father willing to converse with his daughter. As a father you want the best for your daughter, but you are blindsided by what she