"There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved." I think this quote by George Sand means that the only thing that can make people happy is being in love. In A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, there are four young lovers with a complicated problem. Egeus wishes for his daughter to marry Demetrius, but she and Lysander are in love. Shakespeare uses symbolism to explore the confusion that love creates. Such as; The forest, dreams and the "love juice".
The forest symbolizes confusion that is created by love. The four lovers keep changing their minds about who they love while they are in the forest. For example, Lysander says "Content with Hermia? No, I do repent the tedious minutes I with her have spent, not Hermia but Helena I love". This shows that Lysander does not love Hermia, he now loves Helena. The fairies also make confusion in the forest, For instance Robin puts the "love juice" on Lysander's and Demetrius" eyes. When Robin put the "love juice" on them they do not love Hermia anymore and they both loved Helena. While in the forest the fairies practice the play that they are going to perform for the lovers. The play causes Bottom to act like an "ass" which then a spell is cast on him and he gets his head turned into "that of an ass". For example Bottom says "methought I was- there is no man can tell what.
The dreams represent what might happen or what they characters .
want to happen to them. Such as when Hermia is asleep in the forest and she has the dream about the serpent. When she awakes from her dream she says "methought a serpent ate my heart away, and you sat smiling at his cruel prey". While she was having this dream Lysander was falling in love with Helena so her dream did come true. Then there's the dream that bottom had about Titania. He dreamt that when Titania fell in love with him that it did not really happen. I think the dream was telling us that love is confusing.
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