A Midsummer Night's Dream Research Paper

Love is a light and sweet feeling that all people experience during their life. Love is one of the most popular themes that authors choose for their books. In most Shakespeare’s plays, love is the main conflict of the play and shown from different angles. In “A Midsummer night’s dream” events unfold around couples, such as Hermia and Lysander, who are willing to do anything for their love. Helena that tries to seek Demetrius’ love and Oberon that tries to take Indian boy from Titania, who also loves boy. Their situations are different but all of them are connected by the love. In this play, by couples’ actions, Shakespeare shows how love forces people do reckless things. Hermia, for the sake of her love with Lysander, went against her father’s will, and laws of Athens’s. Her father Egeus said that Demetrius “hath [his] consent to marry her [Hermia] “(I.í.26) and “according to our law” (I.í.45) “she is mine, I may dispose of her” (I.í.43). She was very angry at her father and that he not allowing her to marry Lysander, the man that she loves. She said that if not Lysander, she will “endure the livery of a nun” (I í, 72), “live a barren sister all [her] life” (I í, 74) or “either

It causes the “spring, the summer, the chilling autumn, angry winter, change their wanted liveries” (II.í.114-116). She stopped doing her duties which affects the human world. Oberon was also in love with the Indian boy. He was ready to do anything to get him for himself. To get boy he decides to find “love-in-idleness” and “watch Titania when she is asleep and drop the liquor of it in her eyes” (II.í.184-185) and “render up her page” (II.í.192). Oberon for love goes against his own wife, make her think that she fell in love with donkey head mortal and took her boy! Pretty reckles thing to do to be loved by little boy, to be with him. Love is crazy