True Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

True love brings out emotions you cannot control. In Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ he shows in an entertaining way the flaws of young love and how it can make the most reasonable people into fools. In ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Shakespeare shows us the impact love has in the real world through the characters Helena, Hermia, and Lysander. It reveals how different people have their own way of thinking what love means. Helena thinks that love should be everlasting, and she reveals this with her consistent love to Demetrius. Through Lysander, we know that Demetrius used to love Helena yet then abandoned her, but Helena thinks that Demetrius and herself had true love and that he’ll love her again. Therefore, Helena loves Demetrius consistently. From what Helena said she seems as if she is extremely blinded by love. She shows this by constantly following Demetrius around and basically throwing herself at him. Through Helena, Shakespeare reveals how people can easily be blinded by love.
Hermia and Lysander have been lovers throughout most of the play. After Puck placed the spell on Lysander, he left Hermia to chase after Helena which then left Hermia alone. The next day when the four lovers met in the forest, Hermia was being insulted by Lysander and that made her extremely emotional. “Why are you grown so rude? What change is this? Sweet love,” (3.2.262-263). Through this quote, it reveals how Hermia is still in love with Lysander and she is hurt from what Lysander is saying. Not because of what he is saying but the fact they have been in love for a long period of time. Through Hermia, it depicts how you cannot assume you have true