A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play by William Shakespeare that portrays love-sight in many different ways. The play reveals how easily love can be betrayed by the eye. The play is a love story of Athenian lovers trying to be happy with the true love and encountering many twists and turns along the way. Shakespeare's use of love sight is conveyed as the main theme of the play throughout the use of the flowers potion, the interchanging feelings of the Athenian lovers, and Titania's love for Nick Bottom as a donkey.
             In the play Puck, a fairy servant that is quite careless, is ordered by Oberon to retrieve a flower potion that was struck by Cupid's arrow. Puck causes a lot of mischief in the play. "Puck, being the generic term for mischievous spite" (Vaughn 370). The potion is magical and when applied to ones eyelids while asleep, the first living thing they seen becomes their true love. This potion plays a huge part in the play and betrays love drastically. Once applied, that person is no longer loving the one they love with their heart but loving the first physical person they see. The heart is being betrayed by the person's eyes; and love isn't supposed to be based upon one's eyes. "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind."(Kott 232). This entitles the false sense of love in the play.
             The potion plays a large roll in the play because once Puck tries to use the potion he mixes up the lovers and causes a ruckus. In the beginning of the play both Lysander and Demetrius were in love with Hermia. The two men reject Hermia later in the play to love Helena. Helena is in love with Demetrius but he highly expresses that he doesn't love her. In the play he expresses his negative feelings by saying "Tempt not too much hatred of my spirit, for I am sick when I do look at thee" (Shakespeare 1420). Lysander and Her...