As I sat down and pondered this question, the solution that I came up with was that in this world the quality of the writing that is done is often diminishing. ... Some people might only be able to dream of having a true love like theirs. ... Well, in Twelfth Night, the recommendation against the taking of older wives by younger men occurs when Orsino is talking to Cesario. ... In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare presents love as a silly, childlike emotion. ... Perhaps, he viewed his marriage as a silly thing, and was making fun of it in A Midsummer Night's Dream, while in Othe...

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Hamlet utters in one of his soliloquies while he contemplates suicide, "To be, or not to be, that is the question" (Hamlet III.i.55). ... Similarly, the forest in A Midsummer Night's Dream where the lovers retreat to, is a magical place, removed from the conventions of reality. ... Youth's a stuff will not endure" (Twelfth Night II.iii.47-52). ... Twelfth Night contains other words of wisdom as well in the "love" letter given to Malvolio, telling him to "be not afraid of greatness" (Twelfth Night II.v.144). ... Again, Twelfth Night is a classic example of a love triangle situat...

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