Carey A Morris Introduction to Literature Denise Lance January 10, 2009 Theme of Love in Literature What is love? What causes one to fall in love? How does love relate to the physical world of law and reason? These questions are broached in all their complexity throughout this play. Although love is the primary concern of the play; Shakespeare displays the true uncertainty of desire, along with its depth, and the struggles and tears that often make lovers miserable. Another important character in the play is Puck, a mischievous sprite who likes to play pranks on the mortals. Puck is the master of deception and then convinces everyone he can make a love potion. With this love potion, you can make anyone fall in love with anyone. By placing this flower potion in one’s eyes while they are sleeping, they will fall in love with the first person they see. He is then ordered by Titania; the queen of the fairies, to go into the woods and place the potion in the eyes of the Athenian youth being pursued by a lady and to put some of the juice on the disdainful youth’s eyelids, so that when he wakes he will fall in love with the lady. Unbeknown to Puck that Demetrius is the intended recipient of Titania’s plan; he accidentally sticks the potion in Lysander’s eyes instead. Later in the play, Demetrius is finally able to rid himself of Helena; who accidentally wakes Lysander. With this waking; Lysander falls deeply in love with Helena. Realizing his mistake when Hermia doesn’t end up with Lysander, Puck places the love potion into Demetrius’s eyes. Demetrius then falls in love with Helena also. After many sorted words and a gang up on Hermia, the truth of the adolescent love is finally resolved; thus leading to a typical Elizabethan wedding of Lysander and Hermia, and Demetrius and Helena. Shakespeare’s, examines many types of love throughout this play. He discusses every aspect of love romantic, physical, unrequited,and even obsessive. He emulates not only the...