In the play A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare many mortals and immortals fall in and out of love. Everyday relationship drama already is overwhelming enough, but after the mischievous fairies intertwine more love patterns, and everything turns upside down. The course of true love never did run smooth. (A Midsummer Nights Dream, 1.1). You will need true love to get over some of the obstacles thrown at Helena, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius in the play A Midsummer Nights Dream. Only the fairies can change the fate of these mortals and with the troublemaker fairy, Puck, it will take all night.
Thesis is the duke of Athens and is soon marrying Hippolyta the queen of the Amazons. So Egeus decided to go to Thesis with his daughter, Hermia, and tells him that if she doesnt marry Demetrius (the man she doesnt love), she can die. So it sets the awful fate for Hermia, either die, marry Demetrius, or become a nun. The worst that may befall me in this case,
I refuse to wed Demetrius. (A Midsummers Night Dream, 1.1). Not wanting to marry Demetrius, Hermia runs away in the forest with Lysander (the man she loves) planning to marry him without any ones notice, but little do they know Helena and Demetrius follow them into the woods.
Helena is in love with Demetrius, who does not love her in return, because he wants to marry Hermia. So when he says some nasty words to Helena in the woods to get her away from him, she is more than heartbroken. I love thee not, therefore pursue me not (A Midsummer Nights Dream, 2.4) In the midst of all this, Oberon wants Titanias orphan baby, though Oberon and Titania are married and queen and king of the fairies, they are fighting. So when Oberon makes his servant, Puck, go get a rose that has been struck by cupids bow that makes whoevers eyelids it has been squeezed upon fall in love with the next thing they see, everything gets messed up. The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid will make or man or woman madly dote, upon the next live creature that it sees. (A Midsummer Nights Dream, 2.3)
Not only does Oberon put the juice on Titanias eyelids, which for a short period of time make her fall in love with a man with a donkey head, until he takes the potion off her, but Puck puts the juice on Demetrius and Lysanders eyelids too. Unluckily the first person both Lysander and Demetrius saw was Helena, which when Hermia sees the man she loves, Lysander in love with Helena, Hermia and Helena start to fight. My nails can reach unto thine eyes. (A Midsummer Nights Dream, 3.5) As Oberon, the king of the fairies sees this, he takes the juice off Lysanders eyes and once again he is in love with Hermia, and is Demetrius with Helena. Sense Thesis sees these lovers, him and Hippolyta have a triple wedding with them. These couples shall eternally be knit (A Midsummer Nights Dream 4.1).
Even though the course of love in this play did not run smooth for a little while, fate found away to make everything work out the way it was suppose to, with a little help from the fairies. In the play A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare true love can last through anything. In this play fate truly will always find a way. Even if fairies mess it up along the way. Love can beat any obstacle.
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