How Is Love Depicted In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Love is a powerful, passionate affection for another person. It can have many affects on someone, positively and negatively. It is now better understood with the help and discoveries of scientific research. Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a comedy that poorly expressed the true representation of love. The love demonstrated in the story was based of off Cupid and his arrows. “What Neuroscience Tells Us About Being in Love” states that there is chemicals in the brain such as oxytocin, serotonin, and Dopamine that better explain love. The love depicted in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is expressing the difficulty and confusion that comes with being in love. In the article “What Neuroscience Tells Us about Being in Love”, the brain will experience drops in serotonin which decreases our sense of control and the time spent with a significant other leads to an obsessiveness because they rattle our certainty and stability cages. The characters in the story seem to lose a sense of control quite often. When she woke up, Hermia noticed Lysander missing and she became so distraught that she wanted to

They both produce a “high” and both are addictive, but they are distinct enough that you could be in love with one person and in lust with another. Shakespeare has Demetrius in love with one character in the beginning and a different character at the end. This could be due the love potion put on him, or the love and lust in the brain. You can eventually tell the differences between the two, but since the play’s time period is very unrealistic, you cannot tell if Demetrius is actually in love. Another unrealistic part to the story is the sudden forgetting of what occurred between the two lovers. Shakespeare makes it seem to them to be a dream and as if nothing happened between them after they woke up. This does make a perfect representation of love, confusion and