A Midsummer Night’s Dream Essay: Love and Marriage -- Midsummer Night

chicane and Marriage in A Midsummer Nights Dream in that respect is something to be said for the passionate passionateness of young people, and Shakespe ar said it in Romeo and Juliet. The belief that any action can be excused if one follows ones feelings is a sentimental nonion that is not endorsed by Shakespe ar. Thus, Theseus suggestion in 1.1 of A Midsummer Nights Dream, that Hermia bind a man she does not love rather than live a barren sister all her lifetime would seem perfectly sensible to Shakespeares contemporaries. Shakespeare writes for a public who views marriage unsentimentally. At all levels of society, from king to commoner, marriage is entered into for commercial and dynastic reasons. People marry to increase their property and to secure its inheritance. Wise parents, who may dispose of their children in marriage, allow of course bear witness to avoid matches which the contracting parties find intolerable, however at that place are limits to this. On the other hand, children attain a duty of obedience. And the husband Egeus proposes for Hermia is by no means unattractive his chief defect is that he is not Lysander, whom Hermia loves, perhaps intemperately. The play shows how the ideal relationship is that in which the affections and the reasonable mind are both in harmony. At the start of the play, both Demetrius and Helena are clearly at fault. Demetrius has allowed his love for Helena to abate she, by fawning on him, is guilty of doting, which exacerbates his dislike. An honourable man would stand by his promise and try to re-discover his love for Helena, and it is this which draws Lysanders t aunty that Demetrius is spotted and inconstant. In time, perhaps, Demetrius might reconsider Helenas merits, but in the brief ti... ...up with mud, for example we learn of the farthest center of India, of Oberons various favorites. Against the beautiful lyric and exotic account of the changelings pregnant mother we have the homely jol lity of Pucks pranks on the fat and bean-fed horse or wisest aunt. Oberon gives us many set-piece descriptions of the bank whereon the wild thyme blows, of the fair vestal whom Cupids bolt failed to hit, and of Titanias pursuit sweet favours for this hateful fool (Bottom), among others. Here Shakespeare shows us what can be done in this kind, lest the failure of Pyramus and Thisbe lead us to the conclusion that the field can only depict what can literally be brought on stage. In watching a play filled with references to moonlight, darkness, day-break we do well to mean that it was first performed in open-air theatres in daylight A Midsummer Nights Dream Essay Love and Marriage -- Midsummer NightLove and Marriage in A Midsummer Nights Dream There is something to be said for the passionate love of young people, and Shakespeare said it in Romeo and Juliet. The belief that any action can be excused if one follows ones feelings is a sentimental notion that is not en dorsed by Shakespeare. Thus, Theseus suggestion in 1.1 of A Midsummer Nights Dream, that Hermia marry a man she does not love rather than live a barren sister all her life would seem perfectly sensible to Shakespeares contemporaries. Shakespeare writes for a public who views marriage unsentimentally. At all levels of society, from king to commoner, marriage is entered into for commercial and dynastic reasons. People marry to increase their property and to secure its inheritance. Wise parents, who may dispose of their children in marriage, will of course try to avoid matches which the contracting parties find intolerable, but there are limits to this. On the other hand, children have a duty of obedience. And the husband Egeus proposes for Hermia is by no means unattractive his chief defect is that he is not Lysander, whom Hermia loves, perhaps intemperately. The play shows how the ideal relationship is that in which the affections and the reasonable mind are both in harmony. At th e start of the play, both Demetrius and Helena are clearly at fault. Demetrius has allowed his love for Helena to abate she, by fawning on him, is guilty of doting, which exacerbates his dislike. An honourable man would stand by his promise and try to re-discover his love for Helena, and it is this which draws Lysanders taunt that Demetrius is spotted and inconstant. In time, perhaps, Demetrius might reconsider Helenas merits, but in the brief ti... ...up with mud, for example we learn of the farthest steep of India, of Oberons various favorites. Against the beautiful lyric and exotic account of the changelings pregnant mother we have the homely jollity of Pucks pranks on the fat and bean-fed horse or wisest aunt. Oberon gives us many set-piece descriptions of the bank whereon the wild thyme blows, of the fair vestal whom Cupids bolt failed to hit, and of Titanias seeking sweet favours for this hateful fool (Bottom), among others. Here Shakespeare shows us what can be done in thi s kind, lest the failure of Pyramus and Thisbe lead us to the conclusion that the theatre can only depict what can literally be brought on stage. In watching a play filled with references to moonlight, darkness, day-break we do well to recall that it was first performed in open-air theatres in daylight