1. Forms of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream
This reinforces the point that love can be distorted easily as in the beginning of the play Helena is 'neglected' and treated like an 'animal' by Demetrius. ... Although "A Midsummer Night's Dream" begins and ends at the Athenian court, most of the play takes place in a wood beyond the city, where invisible fairies cast spells over two groups of humans. ... A critic to the play, Jan Knott claims that Titania's involvement with Bottom shows her secret longing for 'animal love', but this has to be taking the argument too far. Bottom has not really been tur...
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