The Theme of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

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The Theme of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

When love is in attendance it brings care, faith, affection and intimacy. This is proved true in the spectacular play A Midsummer Night's Dream written by William Shakespeare. This play displays the facts about lust, hatred, jealousy and their roles in something powerfully desirable. It is entitled love. Love is present everywhere, in every form, in every condition and even when one least expects it.

True love is like a precious black pearl, it is so rare that many believe it to be a myth, but Hermia and Lysander found true love according to the following excerpt said by Lysander from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

"...The course of true love never did run smooth..." (1.1. 136)

A short while later Hermia replied with

"...If then true lovers have been ever crossed...as due to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs..." (1.1. 152, 156)

Thus they explained that true love was difficult to bear and comprehend, but in tru...

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