Midsummer Nights Essay, Research Paper

Everyone thinks they will fall in love or be in love with someone else at one

point in there life.Love is a very strong word, in A Midsummer Nights Dream by

William Shakespear, it was used to its full potential. It could be true love or

jus an infatuation that you think is love but it really isn`t. First there was

the love between Theseus and Hippolyta, which lasted though out the whole play.

Then Lysander and Hermia were in love but Demitrius also loved Hermia but that

was change later by Oberon. Later Demetrius falls back in love with Helena but

only because he was put under a spell. In this play there were many

relationships between all the charaters. I think the play A Midsummer Nights

Dream reflects deep truths about love and relationships. In Norrie Epstiens

essay there were many good points. Most of them were about how all the

chatacters were interchangable and how they fell in love. Her most important

point was how love becomes a spell. Love dose become a spell or at least seems

like one because you dont function right when your in love. That happens alot in

this play with Helena and Lysander. Like when Lysander is told that he can not

marry Helena he tries to do whatever he can to try to get the duke to let them

marry. He even was gonna try to sneak out of athens with Helena jus so they can

be together and that makes the reader think that he would not do that if they

weren`t in love. Another good point that Epstien had was that love transforms a

mortal into a rarety of imperfection. When people are in love with each other

they try to act perfect so that don`t make a bad impression. The person thinks

that if they act perfect around the person they think they ?love? that they

will start to ?fall in love? with each other. That isn`t how it works every

time though so you are doing all that work for nothing. This is what is meant by

transforming and it happens a lot in real life and in the play.