capricious nature of love in Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream
Love, love, love, love, Crazy love The capricious nature of love is a major theme in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Throughout the play, the characters often switch from expressing undying love for a person to detesting the sight of their same beloved minutes later. As all who have experienced true love know, love is not a rational thing that arises at our convenience and stays unchanging forever. On the contrary, love is like a small child, always on its own schedule and likely to change erratically at any time. In Act III, scene 1, Titania, the fairy queen, awakens under the spell of a magical flower that causes her to fall madly in love with the first living creature she lays eyes on. As it turns out, she opens her eyes to fall in love with Bottom, a simple-minded weaver from the nearby town, who is lost in the woods. ... Bottom has no idea about the magical spell, so his reaction to this sudden vow of love is amusing as well. ... Titania swears her love to Bottom, claiming love at first sight. ... And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.