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Midsummer nights dream

Love is perhaps the strongest human emotion, it has the power to alter the senses and cause either happiness or sorrow. To try to define love is impossible; one can only rely on examples or experience. One play especially gives several examples of love, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” written by William Shakespeare attempts to comically express the various types of love one can experience. Shakespeare illustrates the chemistry between four couples. He begins with Theseus and Hippolyta a couple awaiting their wedding that is soon approaching. Then Hermia and Lysander are introduced, they represent true love. Immediately following are Demetrius and Helena, representing the most painful type of love, the one given unconditionally, but never returned. Finally Titania and Oberon, the king and queen of the fairies, they represent a mature love with immature tendencies.
By beginning the play with a wedding Shakespeare immediately sets the mood, where there is a wedding there is alway...

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