What Is True Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Course of True Love Doesn’t Run Smooth
Disney stories always start with a Prince and Princess, they have a problem, they fix the problem and then they live happily every after. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not much different from these fairy tales. The play is about the love and relationships of multiple characters, some overlapping love triangles, and the magic and magical stories that contributed to the love. Hermia and Lysander both truly love each other and after running away together to get away from Hermia’s father who is keeping the two apart, their relationship is stopped by dreaming and fake love. With the relationship between Lysander and Hermia, dreaming does nothing but interrupt reality creating more problems for the couple and intervening in the true love that previously existed. One form of dreaming is being under a spell which involves magic. This is like the one Lysander was put under the night after running away. Hermia and Lysander fell in love and were stopped from seeing each other by Hermia’s father who instead wanted her to see Demetrius. The two ran away to Lysander’s Aunt's house hoping to stay together and get away from their problems. The first night being in the woods the two slept apart, Hermia …show more content…
Although in the end the couples, specifically Hermia and Lysander, end up happy and together like how they started in the beginning of the play, they had a conflict hurting their relationship through the story. Lysander was no longer content with being with Hermia when just the day before they had run into the woods to escape. Even though the spells, caused by the dreaming, were reversed in the end, it still affected both Lysander and Hermia’s lives and made them rethink their plans to run away. True love comes naturally and by Oberon’s potion coming into the story it interrupts the natural love leaving the couples confused and
Disney stories always start with a Prince and Princess, they have a problem, they fix the problem and then they live happily every after. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is not much different from these fairy tales. The play is about the love and relationships of multiple characters, some overlapping love triangles, and the magic and magical stories that contributed to the love. Hermia and Lysander both truly love each other and after running away together to get away from Hermia’s father who is keeping the two apart, their relationship is stopped by dreaming and fake love. With the relationship between Lysander and Hermia, dreaming does nothing but interrupt reality creating more problems for the couple and intervening in the true love that previously existed. One form of dreaming is being under a spell which involves magic. This is like the one Lysander was put under the night after running away. Hermia and Lysander fell in love and were stopped from seeing each other by Hermia’s father who instead wanted her to see Demetrius. The two ran away to Lysander’s Aunt's house hoping to stay together and get away from their problems. The first night being in the woods the two slept apart, Hermia …show more content…
Although in the end the couples, specifically Hermia and Lysander, end up happy and together like how they started in the beginning of the play, they had a conflict hurting their relationship through the story. Lysander was no longer content with being with Hermia when just the day before they had run into the woods to escape. Even though the spells, caused by the dreaming, were reversed in the end, it still affected both Lysander and Hermia’s lives and made them rethink their plans to run away. True love comes naturally and by Oberon’s potion coming into the story it interrupts the natural love leaving the couples confused and