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The theme of love in a Midsummer Nights Dream

 

It is most amusing when Titania is actually calling her fairy servants to wait on Bottom with such elegance, but he refuses and has a preference to more vulgar a choice, "Scratch my head Peaseblossom,"" This highlights the comedy of the situation as Bottoms ass's head contrasts with the beautiful imagery of Titania. This shows, on the one hand Bottom, who, mistakably, has been given, by Titania, such powerful authority, uses it for sleep, hay, dried pea's and to scratch his head, and on the other Titania; the gracious queen of the fairy kingdom.
             We get little insight into Puck's views on love, even though it seems to be his trade. A cupid-like character, he goes around making various people fall in love with the first being they see upon waking. Puck shows signs of both chaotic love and orderly love. He allows Titania to fall in love with a donkey, and Lysander to fall in love with Helena. But at the end of the play, it is Puck who brings back order and pairs up the lovers rightfully, "Jack shall have Jill; Nought shall go ill; the man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well."" He does make a few scattered comments about love. When Oberon informs him of his error in applying the love nectar to the wrong eyes, Puck says, "Then fate o'errules."" Could this mean he believes in true love? In all likelihood, this is probably true as in the beginning of the play Puck falls for one of Titania's fairies, "A merrier hour was never wasted here."" .
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             Theseus regards love to be chaotic when talking of other couples, but when it comes to his own marriage he is very dogmatic and orderly. He goes so far as to say, "Lovers and madmen have such seething brains."" He also goes on to equate love with fantasy, separate love from reason, and compare the lover to the lunatic and the poet. However, he does seem to carry a positive attitude about it, especially towards Hippolyta. This is probably due to the fact that his fiancé, Hippolyta, is actually a prisoner of war.


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