Love Blinds

The course of true admire life is not only unsmooth, it is also irrational, whimsical, and unpredictable. This truth written by William Shakespeare is on ample dis mutation in one of his most popular wild-eyed comedies, A Midsummer Nights Dream. Theseus formulates the correlation that exists between the insanity often convey in the actions of require and the words of a poet during his speech near the ratiocination of the play when he observes that The lunatic, the yellowish brown, and the poet / Are of imagination all compact (V. i. 7-8).The lunatic, l over and poet share the trait of achieving a state of consciousness that lifts them high over the hindrances that come with logic and allows them to glide sweetly over the chasm that will organize them gently at the feet of the object of their disposition. Theseus asserts that this leap of faith translate allows nirvana to be transformed into hell for the lunatic, while the lovemakingr is allowed to transform the pathetic i nto the beautiful, or hell into heaven. The poet is allowed his own special power that of a theology who can create from nothing either a heaven or hell.The implication found in Theseus observation is that believe is genuinely sightly a fantastic illusion stripped of its truth. Is Shakespeare asserting that desire is merely a false emotion? If so, hence would not that mean that Theseus desire for Hippolyta is a desire that is somehow released from this bondage of fantasy? But if that is so, then how to explain how he so readily fixed his desire upon other? Shakespeare gives no facile answer to these questions. Shakespeare chooses instead to misrepresent the paradox in question here the theme of the play.Throughout A Midsummer Nights Dream, the unpredictability of love and desire is surveyed as the characters set forth on their respective journeys toward a love that is completely off-kilter while also maintaining a foundation of human race that belies the magic of the fores t. capital of Montanas speech in the opening scene is the plays most get off evidence of Shakespeares thematic concern Things base and brutal, holding no cadence / Love can transpose to form and haughtiness./ Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, /And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind (I. i. 232-235). What Helena intuits is that desire is justify from explanation, that it is contradictory and maddeningly and, ultimately, has the single greatest influence on human actions. agitated over the revelation that her own beloved, Demetrius, is in love with Hermia instead of her, Helena asserts that though Demetrius is incapable of seeing she is as beautiful as Hermia.She believes that love is endowed with the authority to convert base and vile qualities into form and dignity- scour ugliness and bad behavior can seem attractive to psyche you love. She argues that since love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind that love therefore is not based on objective analys is, but subjective perception. These lines anticipate facts of the plays perspicacity of love to come, including titanium dioxides desire for the ass-headed Bottom, which stands as the apex of the transformation of the base and vile into form and dignity.The theme of loves unsmooth path is portrayed through the narcissism of things being off-center and out of labyrinthine sense throughout the multiple romanticist entanglements, focusing especially on the asymmetrical relationships between the four tender Athenians Hermia loves Lysander, Lysander loves Hermia, Helena loves Demetrius, and Demetrius loves Hermia instead of Helena. The course of true love in this play is in actuality a quest to restore balance and set the population on an even keel once again.The goal is to get covering fire to symmetry. Even the relationship between Titania and Oberon is subject to the power of balance being lost. In this case, the off-kilter quality arises from Oberons coveting of Titanias Indi an boy, which she believes is greater than his love for her. Of course, Titania herself will submit to the tilted perception in her desire for Bottom. A Midsummer Nights Dream proposes that no easy route exists that r apiecees the object of anyones desire.This is even true when both parties on are the same path and headed toward each other. Lysander and Hermia take this route, yet eventually discover a hindrance in the form of her fathers wish that she marry another. Shakespeare is remarkably subtle at demonstrating how desire can influence the course of true love even when that desire is not carnal. In the end, Shakespeare seems to posit the idea that desire is not really in itself a false emotion, but is an illusion that often serves to make love false.