In midsummer night dream love is portrait in different ways . Many of the characters fall in and out of love with each other. The term lovers is used in the play to mean the four lovers Demetrius, Hermia, Helena and Lysander.
             They behave as individuals in the play, they also act as a group when they represent the theme of young love.
             There are different kinds of love in the play. One of the kinds of love which is not real love but many people mistake it as is infatuation or commonly known as lust. This isn't being love with the other person but in love with one of their characteristics, This can be shown with the relationship between Demeitrius and Hermia. Demetrious only wants Hernia for the chase and not for who she is. Demetrius having thrown over Helena is in love with Hermia. During the play he has a love – potion put in his eyes which makes him love Helena again and at the end of the play he marries her.
             Demetrius love changes through out the play. At the start of the play he doesn't love Helena. Act II Scene ii, Demetrius says," I love thee not, therefore pursue me not" " Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more, In act II Demetrius after being juiced begins to love Helena Act II Scene ii Demetrius says" Lysander, keep thy Hermia, I will none, If e'er I loved her, all that love is gone. My heart to her but as guest-wised so journed. And now to Helen is it home returned". This proves that his love was not real
             Another kind of love can be represented as an unrequited relationship. This can be expressed by Helena and Demetrius. Helena loves Demetrius with all of her love but he doesn't want her , He says, " I'll run from thee, and hide me in the brakes, And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts." Act II. " Do I entice you? Do I speal you fair? Or rather do I not in painest truth tell you I do not, nor I cannot love you" Demetrius clearly illustrates to Helena that he h
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