From Hermia and Lysander’s belief on their true love in ACT I to the appearance of fairies and the love story of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe at the end of this play, Shakespeare makes us think about what is the mean of true love. Therefore, I analysis the meaning of this love in each characters’ groups and try to find out the message that Shakespeare shows us in this play.

The concepts of love in Athena youth

In ACT I, after the exit of Theseus who offers Hermia the choice of the nunnery or death, Lysander soothe Hermia and tells her the insurmountable difficulties to obtain true love: “Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, / Could ever hear by tale

With this magical potion Oberon wields the power of erotic desire on Titania by changing the target of her persistence from a young Indian prince to the ass-headed Bottom. To take the Indian boy, Oberon casts a spell on Titania: “Having once this juice, / I’ll watch Titania when she is asleep, / And drop the liquor of it in her eyes, / The next thing then she waking looks upon, / Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, / On meddling monkey, or on busy ape, / She shall pursue it with the soul of love: / And ere I take this charm from off her sight, / As I can take it with another herb, / I’ll make her render up her page to me” (781). As the result of Oberon’s incantation, the enchanted Titania, in consequence, awakes and falls in love with a ridiculous Athenian craftman, whose head Puck has mockingly transformed into that of an ass. Titania passes a ludicrous interlude doting on this ass-headed weaver.

or history, / The course of true love never did run smooth; / But, either it was different in blood,---” (771). He goes on to list a number of these difficulties: differences in age: (“misgrafted in respect of years”) and problems caused by “friends” or “war, death, or sickness” (771). He also says that these difficulties make love seem "swift as a shadow, short as any dream" (771). Because Hermia is forced by her father to fulfill his decision, to marry Demetrius, she reacts intensely and negatively to the choice lover by other’s eyes among the barrier of love that Lysander tells her: “O hell! To choose love by another’s eyes” (771). And she comments, lovers must persevere, treating their difficulties as a price that must be paid for romantic bliss. Lysander and Hermia emphasize that the true love should be subjective and free way.

Conclusively, in this play Shakespeare shows to us the role of erotic desire which makes someone indulge in another’s appearance with his own eyes. If someone praises the ugly face of his lover, how to call this love? Is it reasonable or absurdity? Is th

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