William Shakespeare s A Play A Midsummer Night s Dream

To Quote Hamlet, Act Three, Scene Three, Line Eighty-Seven, â€Å"No.† (An analyzation of true love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Examples of true love in literature can be found in a myriad of oeuvres and opuses. It is extremely popular in the contemporary era to include romance in a novel. An exemplary case of an instance of true love in modern writing would be the affiliation of Eddard Stark and Catelyn Tully in George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones. These two characters share an intense romance, and never sincerely stop loving one another. Moreover, in the aforementioned author’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga, there are additional relationships with a true bond. The list of these is quite extensive, but it includes Khal Drogo and Daenerys†¦show more content†¦To begin, Hermia and Lysander’s romance, as detailed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is true, as this love is both gradual and exceedingly organic. Unlike Helena and Demetrius’s fake and fallacious love, the romantic passion between Hermia and Lysander is genuine. It was not the fairy king, Oberon, who made the m fall deeply in love with each other, as is the case with the former pair of paramours. Instead, Hermia and Lysander fell in love naturally, and in a gradual fashion. This proves their love to be true, as a person cannot fall in love with another in a brief period of time. Love is piecemeal, and takes numerous hours, if not years, for two people to become paramours. This is not true of the romance between Helena and Demetrius, as the two fell in love in a single instant. Demetrius was bewitched by Oberon’s magical elixir, and that is the only reason why the youth dotes on Helena. Before he was given the potion by the fairy king, Demetrius utterly detested Helena and loathed her. In truth, Demetrius did not even wish to see the girl, and was said to become sick merely upon seeing Helena. Therefore, it was only because of Oberon’s involvement that those two people fell in love. Thus, their love is not true, and is entirely fictitious and fraudulent. In addition, the lov e between Hermia and Lysander relied on no involvement from Oberon to form. The fairy king’s influence played no part in making them fall in love. While it is true that Lysander was given