Midsummer+Night's+Dream+ECR

Love is a very powerful, complex and wonderful thing because it has the power to drive anybody to do extraordinary things. It can also a very frusturating, painful, and sad thing because it can put people through personal hell's that nobody thought was possible. When people are young, love can make them do crazy things, act careless, or just be plain stupid. Examples of this would be young people running away to see each other, spending all their time and money on the other person, and commiting insane acts of love for the other person. In the story, "A Midnight Summer's Dream" love is very difficult for the three couples Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena, and Obereon and Titania. In the relationship between Lysander and Hermia, both of them love each other but Lysander is not allowed to see her because she is arranged to be married with Demetrius. In the relationship between Demetrius and Helena, Helena is madly in love with Demetrius but Demetrius is in love with Hermia and wants nothing to do with Helena. In the relationship between Obereon and Titania, there are a lot of trust issues and there is a custody battle over a small Indian boy.

In the fairytale relationship between Lysander and Hermia, everything is perfect, they both love each other, and Lysander has won over the love of Hermia by seducing her with, "song, poetry, and gifts". Then Hermia's father Egeus comes and and wants Hermia to marry a man that he has chosen to be her husband, this man's name is Demetrius and he is very in love with Hermia. After Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius, he father gives her the three choices of either, marrying Demetrius, becoming a nun, or to die. So Lysander and her devise a plan to run away together out of Athens to an aunt of his. Meanwhile a fairy mistakingly places a love potion in Lysanders eyes that was meant for Demetrius and in turn makes him fall in love with Helena. This crushes Hermia and she blames herself for him falling in love with Helena. In the end Puck removes the spell from him and their love goes back to the way it was before.

In the relationship between Demetrius and Helena, it starts out as Helena having an obsession with Demetrius, she loves everything about him, and she is madly in love with him. He on the other hand does not love her, he even tells her, "Ill leave you at the mercy of wild beasts". He is madly in love with Hermia but she is in love with Lysander. Demetrius is arranged to be married with Hermia and this makes Helena very jelous. During this play, the same fairy, Puck annoints Demetrius's eyes with the love potion and then in turn makes him fall in love with Helena. now both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena and when they tell her of their love for her she takes them as making fun of her and it upsets her greatly. In the end the love spell is taken away and then Demetrius realizes the woman that he truly loves and that is Helena. They end up being together and all is well again.

In the relationship between Obereon and Titania, there are major trust issues. Their relationship starts off bad because both believe that the other person is infatuated with another person. Like when Obereon says, "Knowing i know thy love to Thesus". He believes Titania loves Thesus and Titania believes Obereon is in love with Hippolyta. They are currently fighting because Titania is in possesion of an Indian boy who Obereon believes she loves more than him, he wants the boy for himself so that it may accompany him throughout the day. To get this boy Obereon makes Titania fall in love with Bottom who currently has the head of an ass, so that he may talk her into giving him the child. Once he has the child in his possesion he feels pity for he being in love with such an ugly creature and he lifts the spell. Both of them make up and they become one again.

Some conflicts that many young people may face while they believe that they are in love are things like distance, not being able to see the person who they love because there is too great a distance between them. They could also not be allowed to see each other because of factors like parents or age, because maybe the other person may be too young or old for them or maybe their parents are overprotective and stupid because maybe they think the woman is abusive to them or a stupid reason like that. All three of the couple in the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare, had great love difficulties but in the end overcame them. The conflicts of love in this play were all resolved because all of the magic was lifted and then true love was realized. A lesson that people could learn about love from this would be that if you truly love sombody, you would risk it all, even your own life to make them happy.