Sarah Wang

Period 7
Loves Trail
Love is considerably a package deal of light bulbs - when they run out of passion for their
purpose, they could potentially cause darkness, but for the portion of the lightbulbs existences
they relieve you of the darkness. Lysander, in William Shakespeares a A Midsummer Night's
Dream, is a swain whose love is plagued by true hardships that assess his endurance.
Lysander, coming to discovery, says,The course of true love never did run smooth. The topic
of whether this accusation is proven to accurate has been a controversial idealism for quite the
time. We tend to neglect that love brings more than the expected. Its depicted with flowers,
heart molded chocolate, and Cupids arrow, but we have completely isolated ourselves from the
belief, that driving on loves route, is never an experience filled with complete tranquility. In
Shakespeares play, a Midnight Summer's Dream, its tests that hypothesis, when the characters
endure the bumps of love in its rawest being. We see Shakespeare entitling Puck, Titania, and
characters of the play within the play, Pyramus and Thisbe, to undergo the obstacles that lay
within loves path.
A play within a play is one truly one to watch, even more so when it's performed by the
Mechanics. A Midsummer Nights Dream is a play and within it lies another play about two
fabled lover's - Thisbe and Pyramus. Their sparkling kindle quickly vanishes when an
assumption is made and through that misinterpretation does Pyramus end his life unconsciously obliviating not only his, but his lovers life also. When Pyramus discovers
Thisbes tattered garment at their meeting location, he concocts an accusation. He states,Since
lion vile hath here deflowered my dear. Out, sword, and wound! Now am I dead. (Act 5, Sc. 1,
ll. 275-284) Pyramus belief was that the lion took Thisbes virginity and then killed her so in
response, he commits suicide. When Thisbe arrives, she finds her swain dead. She then grabs
his sword and in one lethal strike, she plunges it into her chest. Perhaps their love story was
one that considerably ended happily, for they could have reunited in the afterlife. But this should
neglect the fact that their yearning for each other also meant a secure fate of their demise. They
did indeed endure a thump, on a love route destined for tragedy, due to the cause of a lethal
and berserk fabrication based on reasonable doubt.
When we associate love, we usually appropriate it with entities, but it doesnt always come in
the form of a human vessel. The spectrum of things that can be loved is infinite - all types of
matter and energy. In A Midsummer Nights Dream a fairy, Puck, is in love with the impish arts.
He experiences an altercation, in his abstract crouse with love, when his passion for being a
devious trickster blinds him from fully out carrying a task ordered by the fairy realm king and his
master - Oberon. The objective instructed to Puck was to place a love potion on Demetrius, a
lover within the plot, eyes. Oberon tells Puck a fairly vague depiction of Demetrius, making an
estimate toward what the lover is most likely to be wearing,Thou shalt know the man. By the
Athenian garments he hath on. (Act 2, Sc. 1, ll. 250-251) We are shown a mere foreshadow of
the future repentment, in which Robion will endure, when he spots Lysander and mistakens him
for Demetrious. Puck states,Weeds of Athens he doth wear: this is he, my master said. All the

power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on the eyelid: So
awake when I am gone. (Act 2, Sc. 2, ll. 57-69) As the story radicates, Oberon fathoms what
his servant has done. In livid, he orders Puck to immediately amend his heedless fault - showing
clemency. Puck replies with a declaration of, I go, I go; look how I go, swifter than arrow from
the Tartar's bow. (Act 3, Sc. 2, ll. 101-102) A Tartar, as Britannica explains, are people living in
civilizations in Central Asian, who are renown for their archery skills. When Robin states,Swifter
than arrow from the Tartar's bow, he emphasizes how quickly he leaves to fix his mistake
because he is in fear from the wrath Oberon possesses. Clearly, Oberon could have gave a
much more detailed description of Demetrius, but it's Robins job to fully peruse and exhume
background information about his prey, ensuring he has the right one, and then attack. Instead,
the debacle could have caused a major catastrophe within the obscure fairy kingdom. Puck is
surely not a novice when it comes to legerdemain because of his utter passion for the art. Within
this scene, we take note that Pucks fondness for acting upon mischievous deeds caused him
not thoroughly investigate the entity he was targeting, allowing a meager, but potent, crack to
fabricate within a crucial plan. When he is confronted for his omission, we see that along with
realizing his fault, he also experiences a bump in his love trail, further advocating that love never
runs smoothly.
I firmly understand that some might argue the course of love is uneven, but the obstacles
that lie within it are not rigorous to hurdle. We are shown that accusation to be proven fallacious
when the queen of the fairly relim, Titania, encounters various stops in fluidity within her multiple
love stories in a Midsummer Nights Dream. Not only does she have to weather through the
death of a beloved and close acolyte, but with her death brings a new baby boy that Titania has
taken in as one of her own. This causes a quarrel among her husband, Oberon, as they battle
for the Changeling. Puck describes their, nevermore kindling, love to one of Titania's servants.
Robin says,She perforce withholds the lovd boy, crowns him with flowers, and makes him all
her joy. And now they never meet in grove or green, by fountain clear or spangled starlight
sheen. (Act 2, Sc. 1, ll. 12-15) Within this expert Puck is explaining that Titania refuses to
rellingisush the Changeling to Oberon. Instead, she places flowers on his head and is
overprotective of him. Due to this, her past partnership with Orbeon has demolished into nullity.
When she cross paths with Oberon, she states, frankly, the cause for Oberon returning all the
way from India. She proclaimed,Why art thou here, come from the farthest step of India? But
that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon, your mistress. (Act 2, Sc. 1, ll. 54-57) She expresses that
Oberon had a mistress while they were still wedded. Then Titania gives him a depiction about
how her endearment for her deceased worshipper lives on within the Indian Boy:
His mother was a votaress of my order. Full often hath she gossiped by my side. When
we have laughed to see the sails conceive and grow big-bellied with the wanton wind.
Followingher womb then rich with my young squire. But she, being mortal, of that boy
did die. And for her sake do I rear up her boy, and for her sake I will not part with him.
(Act 2, Sc. 1, ll. 108-123)
Titania is giving Oberon the reason why she will never leave the changeling no matter what she
must endure in the war, it's because his mother meant more to her than a follower, she was

considerably a best friend whom she could truthly speak and conversationalize with. We are
shown that Titania tolerates more than war with a jealous husband. She feels the strenuous pain
from the death of a mutual friend, her adopted child being attempted to be stolen from her
grasp, and a husband that cheated on her and is now at war with her. Considerably, her love
seems to be plagued. But Titania is only a victim and representation that loves jolts vary in
suffering. She renders from the most severe aches that anyone can experience during their trip
on loves crouse. Titania is not the only person undergoing countless faltering loves because the
tragedy and dumbfounding truth is, many people sustain and strive through more horrific love
trails.
In conclusion, Lysanders quote,The course of true love never did run smooth, is proven to
accurate with all the evidence and stories provided. William Shakespeares writing within a
Midsummer Nights Dream consists of ill-fated loves that range in severity. The plot seems to
completely limn the belief, that renders within Lysanders line, which moralizes loves crouse to
be one that is filled with challenges that trials the lovers. But that doesnt mean we should
neglect the love portion of such a phrase. Before all the misery, which love brings, there is a
duration in which all monumental love tales were only filled with the most optimal occurrences,
until the trail becomes rugged. There is no way we can prevent conflicts within definite love - we
can only accept it to ensure that we are prepared for all the distressing manifests that love
impulsively throws. When confronted with such an obstacle, acknowledge that we are all titled
as victims of love when we fall into its trance. It truly depends on whether we want to be labeled
one for eternity, or enable ourselves to become entities advocating that Loves quarrels can be
graciously conquered, leaving us to come out impregnable and thriving because of them.

Works Cited
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