Beruflich Dokumente
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Period 4
03/18/15
Prompt #4. The love portrayed among the four lovers is similar to love among teens today (the times have
remained unchanged). ex: same problems (give 3 examples)
jealousy and betrayal. These days, friendships are shattered the same way. A boy comes in
between two girls and they fight like soldiers in a war. No matter how much time passes,
jealousy is a feeling everyone deals with.
Lastly, Shakespeare demonstrates what I call the lovey-dovey kind of love where new
couples are still in that stage where love excites them. However, most of the time it may not be
love at all, but the feeling of excitement and adventure that is making them believe they are in
love. From reading A Midsummer Nights Dream, it does not seem like Hermia and Lysander
have known each other for a long period of time. When it came to the ages of the characters,
Shakespeare purposefully made it vague and showed it through their actions instead of
informing us. One example is, There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee; And to that place the
sharp Athenian law Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me, then Steal forth thy fathers house
tomorrow night, And in the wood a league without the town (Where I did meet thee once with
Helena To do observance to a morn of May), There will I stay for thee. As a result of not having
her fathers consent, Hermia and Lysander had planned on eloping in Athens. If that does not
scream young and immature, frankly, I do not know what does. Whether if it was from a movie,
a book, or experience we have all heard about young couples eloping in Vegas with an Elvis
impersonation. Clich right? Helena and Lysander had it drilled into their minds that what they
had was love. As humans, we all want to find happiness and be content with our lives. This
couple could have been experiencing first-time love which blinded them from reality. Who
knows? Maybe they were in love? However, that does not change the fact that emotions took
over, causing them to make rash, irrational decisions which is what every single teenager has in
common.
To sum this all up, actions due to young love have not changed at all and most likely
never will. We may live in a different generation, but we all share one quality; we are all human.
Humans have emotions that influence their choices. The four lovers experienced love, jealousy,
and betrayal throughout the play. Teenagers these days repeat history by dealing with the same
problems. You know how they say anything that happened today, happened in history? Well, in
this dilemma, it works both ways.