Passion In A Midsummer Night's Dream Essay

Shakespeare, the famous playwright, in his 37 plays all of his characters have some relation to passion, why? Shakespeare uses passion to play a significant role in his stories, affecting each character and their plot. His story, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is no different. Of the many character passions that appear in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a lot of them affect major plot points in the play, such as Oberon’s passion for jealousy leading to his action with the flower, Hermia and Lysander’s passionate love leading to their action to run away and Demetrius’ hatred leading to Helena’s action to continually pursue him.
The main passion that drives almost all of the the plot events in the play is Oberon’s strong jealousy. The first piece of evidence is “And jealous Oberon would have the child” (2.1.24). This line is from the first few words the reader hears about Oberon before meeting him. At this point readers know that Titania has a boy that Oberon is jealous for which leads to the
For example, Hermia states “O hell! to choose love by another's eyes” (1.1.142). This line describes how the Hermia is being forced to love by someone other than herself. And she is saying this to her actual love Lysander since they are very passionate lovers and do not want to part. Afterward, Lysander say to Hermia “There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee; And to that place the sharp Athenian law Cannot pursue us” (1.1.163-165). This shows the action made by the lovers, because of their passion, they decide to disobey the law, on top of that it brings the two lovers into the forest where they will be followed and eventually affected by the love-in-idleness flower that Oberon passionately uses. This concludes how the passion of love affects character actions to run away from home and how it plays a role in bringing the two characters to be an effect of another one’s