Jealousy In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Throughout time men have tried to solve the mystery of love. Shakespeare has taken all of their attempts and put it all in a nut shell with the character Puck saying "Oh what fools these mortals be". The jealousy between two friends over a man, to men fighting over the heart of one woman and a controlling father. "Oh what fools these mortals be!" A midsummer night's dream illustrates this by displaying the havoc caused by puck then the human's own foolishness.

When two bestfriends; Helena and Hermia, are captured in a sever love triangle, one is bound to be hurt. The story goes Hermia loves Lysander, Demitrus loves Hermia and Helena loves Demitrus. It is no doubt that jealousy will bear its ugly head. This is an example of how foolish mortals can be. We fight, bicker and end the strongest of friendships' all in the name of love. Hermia is betrothed to Demitrus, even thought she doesn't love him and this is what sparks the jealousy between Hermia and Helena. When Hermia tells Helena of her plans to run to Athens to marry Lysander, her emotions get the better of her and hoping that by telling Demitrus that he will love her, she tells him and its another example of how foolish mortals can be.

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Egeus is convinced that he; Lysander has bewitched Hermia, and that is the only way she could love another man. This is another way of showing how foolish mortals can be. To think that a man has cast a spell over his daughter to love him when she is betrothed to someone shows the foolishness of his accusation, then to state the fact even more in this quote.

"As she is mine, I may to dispose of her, which shall be either to this gentleman or to her death According to our law immediately provided, in that case" So in simpler terms, "she is my creation I may do what I will with her and I'd rather she her dead that happy." He really has a firm grip on relate and proves what fools mortals