Themes Of Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is an extraordinary fantasy story that has many themes throughout the play. One of the many themes is that love is not always easy. Anybody who has been in love can understand to some degree, that love is almost never easy. Love is difficult, especially if the two lovers have been together for a long time. Love will last if both people are willing to never give up, to stand up and still try every time one of you or both off you fall. Shakespeare uses competition, comedy, and irony to show the audience that love is not always easy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream takes place in Athens; where the audience is introduced to a distraught Aegeus who is trying to arrange a marriage between his daughter

Comedy is used to establish the theme that love isn’t always easy. This is shown when Puck puts the love potion in the wrong Athenian’s eyes. The audience can clearly see the mistake that Puck makes is supposed to be comical but the conflicts that result, make the theme more serious. Shakespeare also shows comedy in his play when he causes Tatiana, queen of the fairies, to fall in love with Bottom. "Why do they run away? This is a knavery of them to make me afeard."(86) In this quote, the speaker, Bottom, is wondering why everyone is afraid of him. He doesn 't realize that as a practical joke Puck has put an ass head on his shoulders. This makes all of his companions afraid of him so that they run away. This is an example of the comedy involved in this

Unfortunately the fragile aspects of love make it a very difficult emotion at times. Shakespeare saw this quality in love and used A Midsummer Night’s Dream to employ this flaw. Shakespeare was able to create a fantasy in which he described what situations and ideas cause love to be so problematic. Shakespeare used competition, comedy and irony to make this theme clear to the audience. He was able to caution his audience to avoid these situations in their own love lives. The dream-like quality of his play also shows the dream-like quality of love. Children tend to have “crushes” on people they feel strong emotions towards. This isn’t quite love because kids are unaware of these feelings. It’s not until later in life those feelings get stronger and it is as if those same kids awoke from a dream, suddenly those feelings have meaning for certain people. Shakespeare realized this pattern and created a fantasy representation. He then went a step further, by showing the audience in a comedic way that love isn’t always as simple as waking up from a dream. Love is much more complicated. Love isn’t easy, but to not love is a