Forced Love In A Midsummer's Night Dream

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William Shakespeare “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” was a composed play about a love affair that can be based on forced love. The unrealistic types of forced love are what Shakespeare uses to distinguish his character’s roles towards one another. Love, dreams and comedy are the three types of themes that mostly stand out in this play. These certain themes are what determines the formation of the play. Those private exposures and Shakespeare’s clever use of fairytales is what individuals in everyday life very much wished for or dreamed of, hoping it can be brought into reality.
In the beginning of the “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” the author starts it off with a preparation for a wedding and the demands that a father has for his daughter for the man he chooses for her to marry. In an eager tone the author states in Act 1 scene 1 “Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia stand forth, Demetrius.” (1.1.23-25) Here is frustrated with his daughter’s decision to go against his will and not want to marry the man he chooses for her. …show more content…
The author brings forth a bewitched blossom that reverses Demetrius feelings towards Helena set forth by the king of fairies where the fairy states “fare thee well, nymph, ere he do leave this grove, thou shalt fly him and he shall seek thy love.” (2.1.47-48). He questions” Hast thou the flower there?” (2.1.49) Here the author now morns for Helena’s damaged heart and will do what is necessary to make Demetrius lover her. This scene goes to show what may happen in the woods can be a form of forced love.
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a play full of organization and upheaval. In the city of Athens, it is run by certain law that not any lover would want to live by. Which otherwise in the woods where upheaval is present any lover could live freely and love whomever as they please. However, the magic used in the play makes the play more of a dream which we all have in
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