Midsummer Night's Dream Love Quotes

The Faces of love What is love? Different people have different characteristics and adjectives of love. For example new lovers might think that love is the only hope, while people who have had some experience might think that it is a pain. In the Book A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare writes about the different types of love. Shakespeare uses his characters to show how people different people may view love.

In the play A Midsummer’s Night's Dream, Shakespeare shows the different types of love. One of the most noticeable types of love he shows is that love is blind. One way that Shakespeare shows that love is blind is when Helena says “I will go tell him of fair Hermia’s flight. Then to the wood will he tomorrow night Pursue her. And

This quote shows that Helena was so blinded by her love of Demetrius that she was willing to ruin her best friends chances of love. Another way that shakespeare shows that love is blind is in the following quote. The way that Shakespeare shows this when he writes “Having once this juice, I’ll watch Titania when she is asleep And drop the liquor of it in her eyes. The next thing then she waking looks upon—Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, On meddling monkey or on busy ape—She shall pursue it with the soul of love. And ere I take this charm from of her sight—As I can take it with another herb—I’ll make her render up her page to me. But who comes here?”(Shakespeare 2.1.161-171). Oberon is planning to make his wife love someone else in order to get the child. In this quote Oberon was so blinded in love with the idea of having the changeling child that he was willing to ruin his relationship with his wife just to get him. One last example of the way Shakespeare shows that love is blind is when he writes “With cunning hast thou filched my daughter’s heart, Turn'd her obedience (which is due to me) To stubborn

One way the author shows this is when he writes “So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will yield my virgin patent up Unto his lordship, whose unwishèd yoke My soul consents not to give sovereignty.”(Shakespeare 1.1.79-82). Hermia is saying that she would rather die than give herself to someone that she does not love. In this quote Hermia’s love goes deeper than the boundaries of love. Another way that Shakespeare shows that love knows no boundaries is when he writes, “Take thou some of it and seek through this grove: A sweet Athenian lady is in love With a disdainful youth. Anoint his eyes. But do it when the next thing he espies May be the lady. Thou shalt know the man By the Athenian garments he hath on.”(Shakespeare 2.1,246-251) In this quote Oberon is tell Puck to intervene in Helena and demetrius’ love life. This quotes show that love knows no boundaries because of Oberon’s love of playing cupid he invaded someone he did not know personal life. One last way that Shakespeare showed that love has no boundaries is when he writes: “You do impeach your modesty too much,To leave the city and commit yourself Into the hands of one that loves you not,To trust the opportunity of night And the ill counsel of a desert place.With the rich worth of your virginity.”(Shakespeare 2.1.199-204) Demetrius is trying to get Helena away from him by telling her that if people find out this