Love and Midsummer Night
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Romantic Love in Shakespeare’s Plays
Part 1: Compare in the matrix the way romantic love is treated in the comedies, tragedies, and romances.
Themes
Comedies
Tragedies
Romances
Barriers to fulfillment of desire
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream love is the one thing that that can give fulfillment of desire.
Henry V has barriers to fulfill the desire of his people and to keep bringing them peace and happiness.
The barriers that I see to fulfillment of desire in Othello are the struggle that Othello and Desdemona are in a mixed relationship.
Conventions of courtship
The form of courtship that I am able to see in A Midsummer Night’s Dream called for the man that was attracted to the woman would have to ask the woman’s family if the two could be together.
The form of courtship is just the same as A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The man has to go to the woman’s family or father to as for hand in marriage.
Of course families or fathers would have to agree on this, but having to be married by the church also played a large role in courtship.
Treatment of sex
This would have to be caused by the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This would be because the fairies are making people fall for one another from their love juice
This one is tough but I would have to say the sex/love life of Henry and Catherine.
In Shakespeare tragedies the treatment of sex has to deal with both man, woman and marriage.
Challenges to romantic love
In A Midsummer Night's Dream the challenges to romantic love are when Hermia goes against her father’s orders to marry Demetrius the man that she doesn’t want to marry.
The challenge comes from Catherine, because she knows that she is getting used for a political pawn. That’s why when we see Henry wanting to marry Catherine; she tells Henry that it is not up to her but her father, who wants to sign his own daughter away so that there will be peace with England.
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Romantic Love in Shakespeare’s Plays
Part 1: Compare in the matrix the way romantic love is treated in the comedies, tragedies, and romances.
Themes
Comedies
Tragedies
Romances
Barriers to fulfillment of desire
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream love is the one thing that that can give fulfillment of desire.
Henry V has barriers to fulfill the desire of his people and to keep bringing them peace and happiness.
The barriers that I see to fulfillment of desire in Othello are the struggle that Othello and Desdemona are in a mixed relationship.
Conventions of courtship
The form of courtship that I am able to see in A Midsummer Night’s Dream called for the man that was attracted to the woman would have to ask the woman’s family if the two could be together.
The form of courtship is just the same as A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The man has to go to the woman’s family or father to as for hand in marriage.
Of course families or fathers would have to agree on this, but having to be married by the church also played a large role in courtship.
Treatment of sex
This would have to be caused by the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This would be because the fairies are making people fall for one another from their love juice
This one is tough but I would have to say the sex/love life of Henry and Catherine.
In Shakespeare tragedies the treatment of sex has to deal with both man, woman and marriage.
Challenges to romantic love
In A Midsummer Night's Dream the challenges to romantic love are when Hermia goes against her father’s orders to marry Demetrius the man that she doesn’t want to marry.
The challenge comes from Catherine, because she knows that she is getting used for a political pawn. That’s why when we see Henry wanting to marry Catherine; she tells Henry that it is not up to her but her father, who wants to sign his own daughter away so that there will be peace with England.
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