Midsummer Night's Dream

The play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” explores the different ideas of love that’s very related to real life. It describes how the emotion of love is very insignificant and shouldn’t interfere with personal affairs of the individuals of the play. Love in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a very conflicting emotion within the story because it creates drama within the plotline, which enriches the plot. In the beginning of the story, we are immersed into the scene where Egeus is complaining about his problem with his daughter, Hermia, for loving a man like Lysander. In Egeus’ eyes, he sees that Demetrius is the better man as he states, “Full of vexation come I, with complaint / Against my child, my daughter Hermia. / Stand forth, Demetrius.”
In the play, Egeus demands that Hermia marries Demetrius because Lysander “bewitched the bosom of my child”(1.1.28) In the past centuries, love was regarded as a useless emotions that disrupts personal affairs with social classes and such. Theseus tells Hermia to “Either to die the death, or to adjure… / Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires.”, which proves that she should discard her emotions and think about what truly matters (telling Hermia to acknowledge her father’s wishes instead of her own). Love was only used as a tool for those who wanted to raise their social classes or to provide a way to keep the family bloodlines stable for the future generations to come. Love within “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a crucial element to the storyline of the play. The play describes the different ideas on love, its importance, and also the roles it has in real life. The conflicting emotions provides a backstory of the definition of love in real life during the past and shows how insignificant this emotion has with personal affairs between people in the past. This play provides an interesting plot that makes the readers intrigued while also shocking its audience with its deranged plot that it creates through