A Midsummer Night's Dream "The course of true love never did run smooth" is a comment made by Lysander who is a character in Shakespeare's, A Midsummer Night's Dream. This play is about love and the complications of love. The play says that love is very complicated and it shows you the troubles of romance. It also applies that opposites attract ,the whole play is constructed around groups of opposites and doubles. Nearly every character presented in the play has an opposite; Helena is tall, hermia is short; Puck plays pranks, Bottom is the victim of pranks; Titania is beautiful and bottom is ...

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... his daughter, one's love for their soul mate, or the obsession for a child, love can be found as the source of problems throughout William Shakespeare's, A Midsummer Nights Dream. Lysander validates this theory in the first scene of the play: "Ay me! For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, ... The course of true love never did run smooth- (132-34). In A Midsummer Night's Dream there are three basic and very separate classes. At the top of the hierarchy are the aristocrats, magic is brought into the tale via the fairies, ... Helena will stop at nothing to g...

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• Grade Level: High School