Forbidden Love In A Midsummer Night Dream
Forbidden love can travel all the way back to Shakespeare and not just our daily lives in 2018. The three loves stories of Hermia and Lysander, Titania and Bottom and Pyramus and Thisbe shows the reader that love is not always a given and sometimes you have to fight for it. In A Midsummer night dream, William Shakespeare shows us ways that something can get in the way of love.
The first couple that falls in love is, Hermia and Lysander, even though something is stopping them they still fight for each other. For example, “Egeus: Full of vexation come I, with complaint, Against my child, my daughter Hermia.— Stand forth, Demetrius.—My noble Lord, This man hath my consent to marry her.—Stand forth, Lysander.—And, my gracious duke, This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child” (1.1.23-28). This shows that Hermia and Lysander are forbade to date from Egeus, Hermia’s father who will go to extreme lengths to get his daughter to follow his commands. This is because, Egeus already made …show more content…
Their love is forbidden by society, for example, “Bottom: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that. And yet, to say the truth, reason, and love keep little company together nowadays. The more the pity that some honest neighbors will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion. Titania: Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful” (3.1.144-150). This shows that Bottom knows that society will never accept them as a couple so he tries to tell Titania that their love will never work amongst their friends and the rest of the world. This is because he is a low-class workman in Athens, who just happens to have the head of an ass and she is a high-class fairy citizen being the queen of the fairies. As a result, the couple broke up, but not just due to society, Puck took the spell off of Titania, making her fall back in love with
The first couple that falls in love is, Hermia and Lysander, even though something is stopping them they still fight for each other. For example, “Egeus: Full of vexation come I, with complaint, Against my child, my daughter Hermia.— Stand forth, Demetrius.—My noble Lord, This man hath my consent to marry her.—Stand forth, Lysander.—And, my gracious duke, This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child” (1.1.23-28). This shows that Hermia and Lysander are forbade to date from Egeus, Hermia’s father who will go to extreme lengths to get his daughter to follow his commands. This is because, Egeus already made …show more content…
Their love is forbidden by society, for example, “Bottom: Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that. And yet, to say the truth, reason, and love keep little company together nowadays. The more the pity that some honest neighbors will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion. Titania: Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful” (3.1.144-150). This shows that Bottom knows that society will never accept them as a couple so he tries to tell Titania that their love will never work amongst their friends and the rest of the world. This is because he is a low-class workman in Athens, who just happens to have the head of an ass and she is a high-class fairy citizen being the queen of the fairies. As a result, the couple broke up, but not just due to society, Puck took the spell off of Titania, making her fall back in love with