Love is a bewildering topic for many people to hand but to also chance the intervention of others can make it seem more impossible. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare wrote a comical love story about love being intervened by others. Lysander and Hermia are supposed to be true lover but the one mischievous fairies makes Lysander fall in love with Helena by using a magical juice from a flower to their eyes. Since there was a mix up and the fairies want Demetrius to be in love with Helena the put the magic over his eyes and Lysander back in love with Hermia. Then the fairies made the young couples believe that it was all a dream. My thought is that true love should not be intervened by anyone like the saying "Mind your own business".
Not only did the fairies interfere with the hearts of the young lovers but Hermia's father Egeus was also trying to interfere. When Lysander says "The course of true love never did run smooth" is talking about how love always has it challenges and in this story a big challenge love faces is the interference of others.I find it very bothersome that a parent would rather have his daughte be killed for loving someone of her own choice. Parents should make a decision for a child and convict them to an unhappiness marriage. Egeus stated "Or to her death, according to our law", this makes one wonder if laws were better to abide by then the life of your own child. Egeus also says " And she is mine, and all my right of her I do estate unto Demetrius", his statements seem to be that she is his property not an actual human and that he can give her away whether it is her wish or not. Hopefully fathers back in the day didn't truely treat their children like this. The fairies also intervened with love by using the juice from the flower. It was not their place to fix love for Helena or any other character. Love should not be intervened or complications will occur like the mix up between Lysander and Demetrius.
Basically what I am trying to say about A Midsummer Night's Dream is that the perplexities of love are overwhelming enough not to also include a parent and others try to fix things that need to be left alone and let nature take its course. William Shakespeare created a fantastic example of a difficulties of love and how their are many things one has to overcome before true love can be achieved
Shakespear,William. No Fear Shakespeare:A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1595.
New York:Sparknotes,2003. Sparknotes.com. Web.2/24/2011
I agree with you on the fact that Shakespeare does create a great example of the difficulties of love and how tough it really is, and how hard it is to actually achieve it
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