A Midsummer Night's Dream Lovers Analysis
             The unique story structure of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer-Night's Dream is key to its unexpected twists that make the play such a delight. Only through in depth analysis of the characters actions and dialogues can the play be fully appreciated and understood. Unlike a traditional play structure which uses pyramidal action in developing its themes, it instead tells several stories, some occurring simultaneously but all during a single summer night in a magical forest just outside of Theseus' court in Athens. The forest harvests three character groups and the incidents that have them all plotting. Themes of love and its difficulties connect the groups and their stories. From Hermia and Lysander's belief on their true love in ACT I to the appearance of fairies and the love story of Pyramus and Thisbe at the end of this play, Shakespeare makes us think about the meaning of true love and its blindsides. In order to discern Shakespeare's humorous lessons one must analysis the meaning of this love in each characters' groups.
             The concepts of love within Athena youth are prevalent in Act I. After the exit of Theseus who offers Hermia the choice of the nunnery or death, Lysander soothes Hermia and tells her of the insurmountable difficulties to obtain true love:
             "Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood."(771).
             He proceeds to list a number of these difficulties: differences in age: "misgrafted in respect of years" and problems caused by "friends" as well as "war, death, or sickness". Additionally he says that these difficulties make love seem "swift as a shadow, short as any dream". Hermia's father will certainly see his daughter fulfill his wishes to marry Demetrius, which ...