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Love Theme In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Alison Borghi
15 October 2007
Love Stinks
"The course of true love never did run smooth" perfectly describes one of A Midsummer Night's Dream‘s major themes - the difficulty of love (Shakespeare I.i.134). Though the play is filled with romantic conflict, the tone remains so lighthearted that the audience never questions the certainty of a happy ending. A Midsummer Night's Dream discusses the issues of unbalanced love, unsentimental marriage, and love vs. reason.
Almost everyone has told someone or been told by someone "he/she isn't good enough for you," and that unbalanced love is a major issue in A Midsummer Night's Dream. The most obvious miss-matched love is when Titania, queen of all the fairies, falls in love with ass-headed Bottom. This peculiar relationship represents an imbalance of appearance and nature. Titania is beautiful; Bottom has an ass head. Titania is queen of all the fairies; Bottom lives up to his name as a lowly rude mechanical. It is against their......


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