Midsummer Nights Essay, Research Paper

Love. 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 isnt. 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. L ater 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 werent 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 dont 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 isnt 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 alot in real

life and in the play.