Midsummer night
"The course of true love never did run smooth" (1.1.134). While many times true in real life, this quote from Lysander exemplifies one of the main themes of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Throughout the play nothing comes without problems for Hermia and Lysander. True love, according to these two young lovers, does not come easy for anyone, but they know lovers must persevere through the difficulties. First of all, as in the case of many love stories, there are family members in the way of true love. Hermia's father, Egeus, picks Demetrius as a future husband for his daughter. Hermia, however, does not agree to this, for she loves L
134-143)Lysander goes on to explain that these things can make love seem "swift as a shadow, short as any dream" (1. Or else misgrafted in respect of years - O spite! - too old to be engaged to young. As you can see from their actions, Lysander and Hermia believe true love can only come from personal choice. Lysander points out several difficulties that arise with love. Lysander and Hermia do not like the idea of being told to love someone that someone else has picked. They believe they should choose their love, and not be told who to love. This illustrates how powerful true love can be, for Hermia would rather risk death to be with Lysander than to marry Demetrius, whom she did not love. They also know love is fragile and they believe that if anything can go wrong with love, it will. Or if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, . In the end, Hermia and Lysander's view of love is more modern than that of their families and rulers.
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