love in a midsummer nights dream
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The Complex Emotion of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Love is a timeless topic. It will forever be the theme of popular entertainment and source of confusion for men and women alike. No one understands this better than William Shakespeare, and he frequently explores this complex emotion in his writing of great works. In A Midsummer Night's Dream he cleverly reveals the fickle and inebriating aspects of love through his characters: Hermia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius, and Oberon and Titania. Love, by definition, has many meanings. It means the affection and tenderness felt by lovers, an affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests. It also means warm attachment, devotion, or admiration, and the attraction based on sexual desire, which is exactly what Shakespeare portrays in his play A Midsummer Nights Dream.
These three couples are captured in the endless game of love in a land of fairies and a world of reality. A sexual desire runs strong through these characters especially in the men, Lysander and Demetrius. Helena is truly in love with Demetrius because of their shared night together...