In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of the main
Reoccurring themes is love. Shakespeare writes of love that is
Passionate and impulsive, or sensible and reasonable. In Act three,
Bottom, a crude commoner states on opinion of love. "And yet, to say
The truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days; the
More pity, that some honest neighbors will not make them friends." (Act
III, Scene I, line 136) however, in many ways, reason and love are
Already much more closely linked in their society than the modern day
Reader is used to. Shakespeare has one example of real love in this
Play: Hermia and Lysander’s. Their love is pure and simple. They have
No reason to be in love with each other, but yet have h
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