Midsummer Night's Dream
Throughout time, love has been important in many literary works. Shakespeare is one author whose works showed love's importance and influence in people's lives. Some of his plays revealed love as being a destructive force in the lives of the characters, and some did the opposite. Love can be seen as a source of pain in the two plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Hamlet. However, in Hamlet the positive side of love is never seen; it brings about only pain. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, love is powerful, and in the end, all the characters see happiness.In Hamlet, love can be seen between Hamlet and King Hamlet (Ghost), Hamlet and Ophelia, and between the King, Claudius, and the Queen, Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. Hamlet's love for his murdered father causes revengeful feelings toward Claudius, Hamlet Sr.'s brother and murderer. "The love of Hamlet for his father [drives] this young man...to seek revenge" (Barker 12). Because of Hamlet's devotion and love for his deceased father, he feels the need to avenge his father's murder. "Haste me to know't [about his murder], that I with wings as swift/As meditation or the thoughts of love/May sweep to my revenge" (1.5.33), Hamlet says while speaking to the ghost of his father as h
Lysander and Hermia are under great pressure because they love each other and she refuses to marry her father's choice of suitor. The King was so worried that he would have been caught that he lost all concern for his wife, and their "love". He explains, in many words, about his hate for her incestuous behavior, and alludes to her guilt in the wrongful death of his father. Hermia, waking up just after they leave, is confused as to where her loved one could have run off to and goes in search of him. Hermia now blames Helena for Lysander's love going astray, which makes no sense to Helena because she did not seek him out. "Take thou some of it [the potion], and seek through this grove: / A sweet Athenian lady is in love/With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes. Love is shown as a very powerful source of motivation and inspiration. After the exhaustion of descending far into the forest, Hermia and Lysander fall fast asleep under tree cover. The Queen was already dead by that point as well. Demetrius does not know of their plan but is aware that his betrothed does not have feelings for him. Because of her attitude toward him, Oberon plans to play a little magic trick on her. However, because of Hamlet's new focus, or purpose, their once relationship falls apart.
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