Midsummer Nights Dream Love Friendship
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Love & Friendship
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love and Friendship does appear to be unattainable and exclusive. Love tends to have an unpredictable way of deceiving the essence of friendships. In the beginning, the play does not insinuate that friendship and love can coexist because it converts into a competition for a lover's companionship. For example, Lysander encounters a challenge by Demetrius for Hermia's hand in marriage. On the other hand, Helena struggles to entice Demetrius for his love and she also develops an immensity of jealousy towards Hermia's ability to capture both Lysander and Demetrius' love. Helena's jealousy has caused her to be an unfaithful friend and this demonstrates how love can make people do crazy and unpleasant things to each other. In a world where lovers compete for attention and worthiness of affection, it is difficult for some people to obtain a faithful friendship, but with exertion and effort it can be endured.
The play, A Midsummer Night's Dream seems to suggest that Love tends to alter the condition of friendship and other factors in many ways. For example, the struggle that Lysander and Hermia stumble upon just to be together is an instance of the complexity of love. Although they are both truly in love with each other, they are still faced with the predicament that involves Egeus, Hermia's father aspiration for Hermia to marry Demetrius rather than Lysander...