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      • Love makes us behave in strange ways – the lovers fight in a most uncivilised way in the woods. It can bring out the best and bravest qualities in a character – Hermia risks her life for love. Lovers often feel invincible against a world that doesn’t understand them, just as Hermia and Lysander stand alone against Athens’s law.
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  2. Quick answer: Shakespeare's plays feature a wide variety of romantic relationships, as well as a parody of the form in his comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. We see love uniting couples,...

  3. Jealous love is displayed between the faerie king and queen, Oberon and Titania. Oberon is jealous of the attention that his queen displays for her adopted changeling son. He demands that she...

  4. Quick answer: Shakespeare portrays love as mad, magical, and difficult. Theseus and Hippolyta are engaged, Oberon and Titania are married, and Lysander and Hermia wish to elope....

  5. Helena’s speech implies that the female characters in the play face a choice: love or friendship. Believing that Hermia is conspiring with Lysander and Demetrius, Helena assumes that Hermia has chosen love over friendship, leaving her with neither romantic nor platonic love.

  6. Helena and Demetrius, and Hermia and Lysander, are crossed in love; the fairy king Oberon and his queen Titania are arguing; and Bottom and his friends are trying to prepare a play to celebrate Duke Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding.

  7. Feb 2, 2021 · “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, scene 1, lines 240 – 241. In Shakespeare’s time, Cupid was often depicted wearing a blindfold.

  8. SYNOPSIS. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth…’. You are cordially invited to the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and his Amazonian bride Hippolyta. But before the celebration begins, four star-crossed lovers must sort out their own romantic destinies.