The Importance Of Love And Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

The play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written by Shakespeare is a comedy filled with love, magic and dreams. Shakespeare has created four groups of characters for the reader to learn about, the lovers, the royals, the fairies and the mechanicals. All groups have a major impact on the play but one of the main groups is The Lovers who consist of Lysander, Helena, Demetrius and Hermia. Shakespeare uses Diction and Syntax to help the reader understand the characters better.

The Lovers have a lot of drama between the four of them. Lysander and Hermia love each other and Demetrius and Helena are suppose to be together, but instead Demetrius no longer loves Helena and loves Hermia. Hermias father Egeus wants Hermia to get married to Demetrius but is unable to change her mind on Lysander. He tells her that she has four days to decide on marrying Demetrius which is the day of Theseus and Hippolytas wedding. She has the choice of either marrying Demetrius, becoming a nun or she can face death. Hermia and Lysander decide to run away into the forest to be together. Helena and Demetrius end up in the forest as well. The fairy Oberon feels bad for Helena because the one she loves doesn’t love her back. Puck the fairy is suppose to put a spell on Demetrius so when he wakes up he sees Helena and falls in love with her but instead the spell is placed on Lysander so now he loves Helena not Hermia. Demetrius gets the spell and now both Lysander and Demetrius love Helena and Hermia is confused. The spell is taken off so Hermia and Lysander can love each other again and Demetrius actually falls in love with Helena for real.

Helena is the most lovesick character. Shakespeare explains her character as the girl that nobody wants to be with. She l...

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...lot of syntax into the play like iambic pentameter and rhyme, it really changes the tone of text and can either make it happy or dark. The iambic pentameter makes the characters talk fancy and shows how they are higher up in status then say the group of characters The Mechanicals. When Shakespeare uses rhyming in the play, its used more when the characters are talking about love. Hermia shares her love for Lysander a lot and as well as all the metaphors Shakespeare gives her, she speaks in rhyme as well. Also Helena talks in rhyme saying Demetrius love is blind. As you can see in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses all the Diction and Syntax to really express the characters emotions and draw the reader deep into the play to get a better understanding of how the characters are physically and emotionally, especially the group The Lovers.