"The course of true love never did run smooth." A Comparison of Romeo and Juliet & A Midsummer Night's Dream (honors student)
Date Submitted: 10/18/2002 13:14:52
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (619 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (619 words)
A Midsummer Nights Dream can be compared with the play Romeo and Juliet. They both encompass many of the same themes of love. Love is prohibited, true, lustful, and desired. In A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander demonstrated the overriding theme of both plays, "The path of love never did run smooth" (1.i.14). The two plots revolve around two couples that are in love with each other, yet cannot be joined together because of family members …
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…changed to have a different ending or similar ending.
The plays are imbedded with many themes of love. They both show how powerful love is and that one cannot control whom they love. Love always has its difficulties and people in love will go to all extents to be with each other. The play shows that often the reason of family members is not objective and pure, but their reason is influenced by their wishes.
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