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A Midsummer Nights 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 grotesque. Shakespeare captured the team of love and opposites attract in a very comic way in A Midsummer Night's dream.
             In this essay I will try to give you the plot, the play and I will also try to show the obstacles that prove "The course of true love never did run smooth.".
             Theseus, the Duke of Athens, is preparing the city for a large festival for his marriage to Hippolyta. Egeus, a nobleman, enters the room accompanied by his daughter Hermia, the man that she loves named Lysander, and the man Egeus wants her to marry named Demetrius. He begs Theseus for the ancient Athenian right to either make his daughter marry Demetrius or have the power to kill her. Theseus offers Hermia only two options; she must marry Demetrius or join a nunnery. After that Lysander quickly convinces Hermia to sneak in to the woods the next night so that they can get married at he's aunt's house outside of Athens. She agrees to the plan. Helena arrives and she is very upset that Demetrius only has eyes for Hermia, even though she loves him far more than Hermia ever could. Lysander tells her to not worry because he and Hermia are sneaking away that night. Helena believes that if she tells Demetrius about Hermia and Lysanders plan it might make him start to like here. In this early beginning of the play the first conflict is between father and daughter and the battle against arranged marriage and for passionate love.


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