Quotes From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream essay
Topic~ “Reason and love keep little company together nowadays”. Explain how this quote relates to the play as a whole.
“And yet to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays” This quote from act 3, scene 1 in Shakespeare’s play A Midsummers Night Dream, seems so insignificant when Bottom, a simple and silly workman with the head of an ass, expresses this to Titania Queen of the Fairies. She has recklessly fallen in love with Bottom at first sight as a result of the love potion placed upon her by Oberon King of the Fairies. But this quote in fact is very significant as it relates to most of the characters relationships in this play. What this quote really means is that when in love people often don’t make wise decision using their head, …show more content…
Helena is madly in love with Demetrius but he does not return this love. Instead, he loves Hermia, Helena’s best friend. Helena is so jealous that when she finds out that Hermia is going to run away with Lysander to get married she sees the perfect opportunity to tell Demetrius of Hermia’s plans in hope that this will lead him to find that he is indeed in love with her instead of Hermia. “I will go tell him of fair Hermia’s flight: then to the wood will he, tomorrow night, pursue her: and for this intelligence, if I have thanks it is dear expense” What Helena is saying is that if she tells him about Hermia’s whereabouts he will see how much she has risked since she had betrayed Hermia and he will be grateful and he will finally see again that he is in love with her. But this is a very unreasonable thing to do as she is betraying her best friend who has been by her side and whom she has known all her life. She is also throwing it all away just to try and earn the love of Demetrius who doesn’t even love her which shows how irrational she has become and is not using her common sense at
Topic~ “Reason and love keep little company together nowadays”. Explain how this quote relates to the play as a whole.
“And yet to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays” This quote from act 3, scene 1 in Shakespeare’s play A Midsummers Night Dream, seems so insignificant when Bottom, a simple and silly workman with the head of an ass, expresses this to Titania Queen of the Fairies. She has recklessly fallen in love with Bottom at first sight as a result of the love potion placed upon her by Oberon King of the Fairies. But this quote in fact is very significant as it relates to most of the characters relationships in this play. What this quote really means is that when in love people often don’t make wise decision using their head, …show more content…
Helena is madly in love with Demetrius but he does not return this love. Instead, he loves Hermia, Helena’s best friend. Helena is so jealous that when she finds out that Hermia is going to run away with Lysander to get married she sees the perfect opportunity to tell Demetrius of Hermia’s plans in hope that this will lead him to find that he is indeed in love with her instead of Hermia. “I will go tell him of fair Hermia’s flight: then to the wood will he, tomorrow night, pursue her: and for this intelligence, if I have thanks it is dear expense” What Helena is saying is that if she tells him about Hermia’s whereabouts he will see how much she has risked since she had betrayed Hermia and he will be grateful and he will finally see again that he is in love with her. But this is a very unreasonable thing to do as she is betraying her best friend who has been by her side and whom she has known all her life. She is also throwing it all away just to try and earn the love of Demetrius who doesn’t even love her which shows how irrational she has become and is not using her common sense at