What's Meant To Be Will Always Find A Way Analysis

“What’s meant to be will always find a way” - Yearwood, Trisha. Quotefancy.com. Web.13 May 2016. This quote supports the theme in A Midsummer's Night Dream. The quote states that if something is meant to be, it will be. For example, Lysander and Hermia’s relationship. The couple were forbidden to be together, but in the end, they found a way. Lysander says to Hermia, “The course of love never did run smooth” (). The quotation means that love takes a rigid course. In the play, Egeus, Hermia’s father, wishes Hermia to marry Demetrius (who loves Hermia), but Hermia is in love with Lysander and refuses to comply. Hermia’s friend, Helena, is jealous that the man she loves, Demetrius, is in love with Hermia. She shares Lysanders and Hermia’s run away plan with Demetrius. This leads to Demetrius following the couple all day. Which is when a group of totally different characters, including
In her article “The Complexities of Love” Shakespearian Critic Catherine Belsey concurs that the love between Demetrius and Helena is contrived, “It is also delightfully absurd, when we bear in mind that it is the instant effect of Robin Goodfellow’s love-juice, and represents a vision of Helena that Demetrius was quite unable to see his sight was bewitched” (Belsey 118). What Besley is saying is, looking at it from an outside view, it is quite ironic and absurd that Demetrius would be completely in love with Helena, but for all the wrong reasons. Belsey says that their love is not real love, and that in itself is an example of love not taking a smooth course. Helena being in love with a man who does not love her, facing Demetrius’ cruelty, and finally the ersatz love Demetrius has for Helena demonstrates complications in