True Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Love Is Not Always A Smooth Path
When one finds true love, they should not expect everything to be good and smooth. Shakespeare once wrote,"The course of true love never did run smooth" in his play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This line is also true in the play Much Ado About Nothing. Readers will see that Hero and Claudio start out happily in love with nothing to fight about at all but later get in a huge fight over false claims and then make up and get married in the end. Beatrice and Benedick start the play by making fun of each other and saying they never want to fall in love ,but in the end, their relationships all work out for them. Over the course of the play Claudio and Hero have their ups and downs with each other but in the end
She is never sad but when she sleeps, and not ever sad then, for I have heard my daughter say she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing” (Shakespeare 57). Leonato happily responds, giving them his blessing. The pair have a nice easy week before the wedding except on the night before. Don John set Hero up by making it seem as she was cheating on Claudio with Borachio. At the wedding Claudio confronts Hero by saying,”Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.— There, Leonato, take her back again/Give not this rotten orange to your friend/She’s but the sign and semblance of her honor. Behold how like a maid she blushes here/O, what authority and show of truth/Can cunning sin cover itself withal/Comes not that blood as modest evidence/To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear, All you that see her, that she were a maid/By these exterior shows? But she is none/She knows the heat of a luxurious bed/Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty” (Shakespeare 125). Leonato is shocked and later says,”O Fate, take not away thy heavy hand/Death is the fairest cover for her shame/That may be wished for” (Shakespeare 131). Dogberry
In act one, scene one Benedick says,”The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible /Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set /them in my forehead, and let me be vilely painted, /and in such great letters as they write "Here is good /horse to hire," let them signify under my sign "Here /you may see Benedick the married man” (Shakespeare 21). Later in the play Beatrice says,”What should I do with him? Dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him”(Shakespeare 39). Readers are led to think that two characters both denouncing marriage have no chance of falling in love but this is where their love story begins. The Prince comes up with an idea to get Benedick and Beatrice to fall in love by tricking the pair into thinking that the other one loves them. The plan works and the pair are in love, but when Hero is tarnished by Claudio, Beatrice says that she doesn't have time to love Benedick, but when Hero is vindicated Beatrice agrees to marry Benedick. The pair's relationship was not the smoothest path yet in the end they fell madly in love even after their up and