A Midsummer Night’s dream
Comments(2) At first thought when reading the story, you think this is a love story. But after further consideration, is it really? Is this a love story or is this a story about love? We go through this journey with the 4 main characters as their on this inproportionate love coaster but we don’t ever really get too attched to any of the characters. Why does Shakespeare keep us at a distance as to avoid creating a personal attachment with any of them? I feel that because this story is so light hearted and we almost know for sure that it’ll have a happy ending, that this is more about the perils of being in love; having to deal with rejection. Helena has to deal with rejection as her love no longer loves her and Hermia gets to choose who she loves. This is such an imbalance amongst the 4 of them that one really has to wonder, is that the point? Is Shakespeare trying to say that even once you’ve found “true love”, as the 4 of them did in the begining, that it can still go wrong? Is there even such a thing as true love if it any given moment the feelings can change?
I believe that there is true love and here is a a paragraph from the bible describing what true love is:
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
In the case of this story however we see alot of selfishness and obsessions… not an intelligent love but emotions that come and go…
This is a comedy so all ends up well in the end but it sure didn’t start that way…
The play is a comedy, yet it contains serious ideas especially ideas that deals with Love.
I think while the play rejoices in the magical power of love to transform our lives, it also reminds us of love’s foolishness, tediousness and misfortunes; it is not all magical as “fairy” stories confuses us to believe. But as Lysander comments, “The course of true love never did run smooth,”