Different Types Of Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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There is many different ways that love is shown in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
As well as many different situations were love in shown. The types of love shown in this play are parental, passionate, and playful love. In the play these different types of love are shown to give an eye catching plot that the reader may enjoy throughout the play. Parental love is shown in the beginning of the play with Egeus and his daughter Hermia and between Titania and the little Indian boy. In the beginning of the play Egeus talks to Theseus about his daughter Hermia loves Lysander when he told her she is to marry Demetrius and threatens to kill her. Also Titania watches over the little Indian boy like it is hers because it was her best friends son. “As …show more content…
“Full of vexation come, I with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia”(Shakespeare 1.1 23-24). Egeus is furious that Hermia did not listen. He wants her to love the man she despises. “But she, being mortal of that boy did die, and for her sake do I rear up her boy, and for sake I will not part with him”.(Shakespeare 2.1 125-142). Titania doe not know if she should care for the boy or not. She does because it was her best friend's son and he is not mortal when she was. Another way love is shown in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is passionate love. Passionate love is shown in the middle of the play between Hermia and Lysander because that is all they know. This helps them become smart about their decisions and which leads them to come up with the idea to run away to Lysander’s aunt's house where the Theseus’s rule …show more content…
They are both in love with each other but since they are king and queen with magical powers they use to play tricks on each other. In act 2 Titania is telling Oberon of her obsessions of the little Indian boy, then Oberon gets mad and puts a spell on her to take her attention of the boy. “What thou seest when thou dost wake, do It for thy true love take. Love and languish for his sake. Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, pard, or boar with bristled hair, in thy eye that shall appear when thou wak’st,it is thy dear. Wake when some vile thing is near.” (Shakespeare 2.2.33-40). Oberon is over reacting to the situation. This leads him to do the wrong thing. Theseus also uses playful love “Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword, And won thy love doing thee injuries, But I will wed thee in another key, With pomp, with triumph, and with revealing. (Shakespeare 1.1.17-20). Theseus tells her about the things he would do for her love. He must have a devotion to love someone that much. Another character that uses playful love is Egeus “Full of vexation come I, with complaint, Against my child, my daughter Hermia.— Stand forth, Demetrius.—My noble lord, This man hath my consent to marry her.— Stand forth, Lysander.—And my gracious duke, This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child.— Thou, thou, Lysander, (Shakespeare 1.1.23-29). He uses playful love in a strong way to try and get Hermia to
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