William Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream Essay -- Shakespeare M

William Shakespeares A summer solstice Nights fancyA Midsummer Nights Dream could pee-pee easily been a light-hearted, whimsical comedy. Complete with a magic woods and a kingdom of fairies, it is an iconic setting for amorous escapades and scenes of humprs. But Shakespeares writing is never so shallow through this romantic comedy, Shakespeare postulates an extremely cynical view of chicane. A Midsummer Nights Dream becomes a commentary on the mystery of fuck, and lovers in general out shamed. Especially in the episodes among the four young Athenians, the lover is painted as a fickle creature, always changing his or her mind, and love as a passing phenomenon. Love is not an unfathomable, kind emotion, but it is ironically cruel, and by the end of the play, the concept of true love is tinged with doubt. The lover is undependable in A Midsummer Nights Dream. This is first seen in Demetriuss treatment of Helena. As the play opens, Demetrius is already in love wit h Hermia, but Helena tells us that she has once been his love For ere Demetrius lookd on Hermias eyne, He haild down oaths that he was only mine And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt, So he dissolvd, and showrs of oaths did melt (1.1.242- 245).Demetriuss oaths lose their meaning, and Helena is left with a demeaning love. However, Demetrius is not al ane in his mutability Lysander, besides, quickly replaces one love with another. Though Lysander is somewhat redeemed through the use of the love potion, the fact remains that his love changes. Early in the play he says to Hermia, My heart to yours is knit, / so that but one heart we can annoy of it (2.2.47-48), but later he reviles his supp... ...e deeper and more resounding than the conflicts that are resolved. Is it likely for Demetrius and Helena to live happily ever after though the love binding them is synthetic? Can Lysander and Hermia ever have a trust relationship, knowing the f ickleness of love? A Midsummer Nights Dream has potential to be a cheerful play, but it has too many sharp edges and hard scenes to be so. The concept of love is quite a convincingly questioned. Here, love is not faithful, kind, or true it can be lost and manufactured, and is alarmingly harsh. The play ends happily, with the young people in their several(prenominal) couples, but the bitter undercurrents are too strong to ignore.Works CitedShakespeare, William. A Midsummer Nights Dream. Norton Introduction toLiterature. Ed. Jerome Beaty et. al. 8th ed. New York W.W. Norton & Company, 2002. 1614-1670.