'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is a very dramatic play because it involves many qualities such as: tension, excitement, suspense, misery, comedy, violence, grief, contrast and conflict. The different types of love are: shyness, true hate, magical, true love, lustful, marital love and forbidden love. Love can be a beautiful emotion but can be an ugly one as well and it can also be ironic because it can cause chaos with arguments and sometimes it can prevent or bring order.
Love? Is love controlled by human beings who love one another or is love controlled by a higher power?There are many people who believe that a higher power has control over love. An example of a higher power would be a cupid, a flying angel-type creature who is supposed to shoot arrows at people to make them fall in love. There are other people who reject the idea that a higher power controls love and that the people who experience love can control it. In the play, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', by William Shakespeare, several examples of love's association with a higher power are presented later. This essay will discuss the evidence that love is associated with a higher power.
There are many themes in William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595 or 1596); the main theme of the play is love. Another idea is that love is blind: '"Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind. "' Another idea could be love does not always run smoothly: '"The course of true love never did run smooth. "' Shakespeare suggests we should learn from love's mistakes and mend them, making it run smoothly as a well-oiled machine. Theseus shows Lust for Hippolyta while Hippolyta shows Shyness in love towards Theseus.
In the story, the supreme ruler of Athens, Theseus ends up marrying Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons.However, during the whole story, Hippolyta never thoroughly discusses her feelings and ideas about the marriage. Theseus shows his love to Hippolyta: '"Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon- but O, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes. "'. She acts as if she has no choice but to marry Theseus. This can be proven by examining Hippolyta's position in the relationship between herself and Theseus.
Hippolyta was captured by Theseus during battle and he intimidates Hippolyta into marrying him since he is a supreme ruler and she was defeated by him.Hippolyta telling Theseus: '"Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New bent in heavens, shall behold the night Of our solemnities"' Theseus reveals that he capture Hippolyta in battle in the following quote, "I wood thee by my sword injuries" The above quote and the fact that Hippolyta never discusses her feelings about the wedding leads the reader to believe that she doesn't really love him but is forced into the marriage due to his authority.Theseus' authority is the higher power in this example and her love (in marriage) is controlled by the duke's authority by forcing her to marry him. The audience will find it outrageous because Hippolyta has no love for Theseus and he can have whatever he wants. Shakespeare suggests that marital love is not good because people are forced to love one another, even though they hate the person.
Also a higher power can control love in this part. mainly Theseus. The lovers in the beginning Hermia and Lysander show true love and Helena to Demetrius while he shows true hate, but in the end they all show true love. In Act 1, when Hermia confesses her love for Lysander to her father, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius and Theseus, her father Egeus is very upset. Egeus is upset because Hermia is defying his wishes for her to marry the man that he chose, Demetrius.
When Hermia objects to her father's wishes, Egeus starts to threaten her life in an attempt to get her obedience, "As she is mine, I may dispose of her which shall be either to this gentlemen or to her death, according to our law immediately provided in that case" In this example, the higher power position is assumed by Egeus, Hermia's father who is frustrated because his daughter won't marry the man of his choice but a man that she chose, Lysander. Lysander told Hermia: '"The course of true love never did run smooth. ''' And "'So quick bright things come to confusion. 'Her father's anger causes Lysander and Hermia to run away, and be followed by Helena and Demetrius.
The couples then end up in the Enchanted Forest where a whole series of events that mix up the lovers occur. Helena follows Demetrius around even though he is horrible to her, Helena shows the loyalty of love, the determination of love and the attraction of an obsessive rejecting partner, but there are some things that love can do, like causing pain in love and love can make a fool of you. She acts like an obedient dog and she will take any beating just for love: '"And even for that do I love you more.I am your spaniel,"' and '"For I am sick when I do look on thee. "' The audience will find Helena a nuisance and Demetrius as a heartless man. After everything returns to normal, the couples return to Athens.
Interestingly, Lysander and Hermia end up marrying. The fact that Lysander and Hermia got married proves that love can also defeat a higher power. Hermia defied her father, the higher power and still ended up marrying the man that she wanted. The audience will like this part because it shows love cannot be controlled.
Shakespeare proves that love is made by the person not by higher power or wealth and that love is strong.The course of true love never ran smoothly, love is precious and can be easily destroyed. Another idea could be love is a very complicated and delicate thing and Shakespeare uses this knowledge to show how dangerous messing with something so fragile can be. Magic is used as a mystical or supernatural aid.
For example, since Oberon uses a supernatural flower, and in his description of it to Puck he noted its magical function, the juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid will make a man or woman madly dote upon the next live creatures he/she sees. He wins Titania's favour.Even though Oberon himself is one of the many magical characters in the play, he uses Cupid's flower to aid him: '"The Juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees"' Titania's "good turn" would not have happened at all if not for Cupid's love-stained flower. Secondly, given that Oberon has magical powers, he uses them to turn Bottom dense head into that of an ass, Oberon's interference with whom Titania falls in love with at first sight is humorous because Oberon chooses a mortal, but transforms his features to make her "first sight" a comical, but intended error.Titania and Bottom's acquaintance would not have been met if it not for Oberon's spells. Lastly, as Oberon's interference does not stop with Titania, his concern for Helena and Demetrius is worsened because of Puck's mistake, '"What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight"' Originally Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia, but because of Puck's mistake, Helena is the one favored by both men.
Oberon's meddling causes more problems than solutions, but with Puck's help, they correct it. Near the end Oberon fixes Titania's love and she tells him: '"My Oberon what visions I have seen! Me thought I was enamour'd of an ass. "' This shows love is stupid and shows regret in love. To finish, thanks to the fairy intervention, all in Shakespeare's play are happy and finally content with their partner: '"Come my queen, take hand with me, And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be. 'Without magic's existence in the play, A Midsummer's Night Dream would have been a nightmare. Some of audience will love this because they know how much fun making up can be.
William Shakespeare suggests that the feelings of love are controlled by higher beings in this part such as Oberon and its fun to make up. Pyramus and Thisbe shows forbidden love because they are forbidden from seeing each other, because of their parents, it shows that the parents are the higher power that controls them.When they tell each other about Ninny tomb, they go there, the lion frightens Thisbe and she leaves her mantle there, after a while Pyramus finds it and commits suicide to stay with Thisbe '"Thus die I... Now die, die, die, die, die.
"' And Thisbe finds him and then she commits suicide to stay with Pyramus '"Come blade, my breast imbrue... Thus Thisbe ends Adieu, adieu, adieu"' the ending is like Romeo and Juliet because Pyramus presumes Thisbe is dead, then he kills himself and Thisbe because she finds him dead and kills herself.
The audience will be laughing, because of the ridiculous situation.Shakespeare suggests that love is controlled and not controlled in this part it's controlled in the house and it's not when they leave the house to go to Ninny tomb. In conclusion, all of the above paragraphs dealt with examples proving that love can be associated to a higher power. A higher power in definition is any being or group of beings that have direct control over the actions of another being. Two of the examples showed how a higher power can control love and one of the examples showed how love can defy a higher power and prevails, also one in the middle.In any case, it has been proven that a higher power does exist when dealing with love.
Many people have wondered what love really is and how love develops between people. Even if love isn't associated with a higher power in life, it is a strange phenomenon and so far the association of love with a higher power is a valid suggestion as it was proven in the story, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that's why it has created drama and interest because of the higher power in love.
