Relationships In A Midsummer Night's Dream

In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare relationships make up a large part of the play. Many characters interact with each other and fall in or out of love with each other. All of this occurs because of the magic woven into the play. However two characters whose relationship is most affected by the theme of magic within the play is Helena and Demetrius, because the relationship they have is one that remains changed at the end of the play. Demetrius and Helena have a relationship that is unhealthy. Helena at the beginning of the play is a lovesick girl lusting after a man who could care less about her. She is so in love with him that no matter what he says or says what he will do to her, she welcomes any attention that

It is interesting for Shakespeare to conclude the relationship that had developed between these two characters, to believe that the repulsing feelings that Demetrius felt towards Helena were all just part of a weird dream. That he does “wish it, love it, long for it, And will for evermore be true to” the love that he feels for Helena (IV. 1. 182-183). He had felt nothing else for anyone else. All this has resulted from a flower that contained magic. Which is quite controversial because it brings up the idea whether or not it is actual true love that is felt between the two characters Helena and Demetrius. Their love is not real, even if Helena was never placed under a magical spell, the relationship that is present at the end of the play is not real, because magic is involved. In the universe that we live in and the universe that Shakespeare 's characters from A Midsummer Night 's Dream live in, love always plays a part in the everyday lives of a person. No matter what kind of love it is. Demetrius and Helena’s relationship just happens to be a more complicated one involving magic and confusion. Helena knew what she wanted, while Demetrius needed magic to tell him who he should love. Which brings the conclusion of the story that even though magic played a role in the relationship, in the long run it was much better for them, than without the magic in their