In Hamlet, love can be seen between Hamlet and King Hamlet (Ghost), Hamlet and Ophelia, and between the King, Claudius, and the Queen, Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. Hamlet's love for his murdered father causes revengeful feelings toward Claudius, Hamlet Sr.'s brother and murderer. "The love of Hamlet for his father [drives] this young man...to seek revenge" (Barker 12). Because of Hamlet's devotion and love for his deceased father, he feels the need to avenge his father's murder. "Haste me to know't [about his murder], that I with wings as swift/As meditation or the thoughts of love/May sweep to my revenge" (1.5.33), Hamlet says while speaking to the ghost of his father as h

In Hamlet, the main characters die due to love's negative affects on people and situations. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, pain is surely experienced due to love, but it is all righted and love's positive aspects overcome the negative ones. Love is the main cause of happiness for the characters. "...love is the main source of joy in A Midsummer Night's Dream..." (Brown 127). Joy is never seen in Hamlet, especially from love.

KING CLAUDIUS: ...I will work him to

But even his mother shall uncharge the practice

And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe,

Under the which he shall not choose but fall;

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, love is seen as the main theme. "...A Midsummer Night's Dream is centrally concerned with love and marriage" (Wells 40). It is seen mainly between two couples who are involved in a love triangle at the beginning of the play. Initially, Demetrius loves Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander, and vice versa, and Helena loves Demetrius. Hermia's father wants his daughter to marry Demetrius because he can financially support her and he has his "approval". During that time period, whomever the father chose to be his daughter's husband was whom she was to marry. However, Hermia does not love Demetrius, she loves Lysander, and he reciprocates her love. Helena is loveless, but longs for Demetrius, who does not return her love. Lysander and Hermia are under great pressure because they love each other and she refuses to marry her father's choice of suitor. He does not back down, so the two decide they will run away together so they can remain together. Demetrius does not know of their plan but is aware that his betrothed does not have feelings for him. Egeus, Hermia's father even attempts to have his daughter killed if she does not follow his orders by appealing to the Duke of Athens. The Duke, Theseus, realizes that this law is very rarely acted upon, but it is still available. The Duke listens to Egeus and decides that the law will be upheld and Hermia and Demetrius will be married or Hermia will choose to die or live a nun's life forever. "...Upon [the] day [of the next new moon] either prepare to die/For disobedience to your father's will, /Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would, /or on Diana's alter to protest/For aye, austerity and single life" (1.1.88). At the beginning, Demetrius's love for Hermia causes many stresses. There is stress between Hermia and her father, due to his absurd wishes for her husband to be chosen by him. Anxiety betwixt Hermia and Lysander is present because they want each other. There is tension within Demetrius, who knows Hermia does not want him. Tension is also within Helena because she wants Demetrius, whose heart currently belongs to Hermia. Hermia and Lysander carry out with their plans to escape one night, and they travel into the woods. The woods, a magical place where the fairies, and other mystics, live is home to Titania and Oberon, the King and Queen of the fairies. These two are having marital disputes of their own: Titania is very upset with her husband because she claims he takes human form and frolics with a woman. "...When thou hast stolen away from fairy land, /And in the shape of Corin sat all day, /Playing on pipes of corn, and versing love/To amorous Phillida" (2.1.65). Titania is also angry with Oberon because he wants her to give up the boy she is raising for a mortal friend who died during childbirth. She refuses profusely and this angers him. Because of her attitude toward him, Oberon plans to play a little magic trick on her. However, he ends up getting the four humans involved as well. Demetrius, while searching for Hermia and Lysander, is followed by his admirer, Helena. All the while she is tagging along behind him he is insulting her and taunting her. "I love thee not, therefore pursue me not...Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more...Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit; /For I am sick when I do

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