The Challange of Love in Midsummer Night’s Dream by...

Four lovers each with his or her own challenge in love, Lysander and Hermia who love each other but may never be together, and Demetrius who loves Hermia and rejects Helena’s truthful devotion. Shakespeare’s writing style is the essence that brings forth the emotions within his works. Throughout a Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, commonplace literary devices are used to emphasize his style of writing. , Shakespeare depicts the theme of love’s difficulty, especially with the use of figurative language, such as metaphor and personification, to show that though complications arise in complex situations, the ability to overcome becomes the true meaning of love. wise In Act one, scene one, Theseus is forced to solve the†¦show more content†¦So, when Titania has her soliloquy, she describes Oberon’s jealousy as the â€Å"forgeries of jealousy.† That does not mean that jealousy, an abstract concept, can be forged. But it doe s imply that the jealousy is personified as a fictitious idea. Further along in her soliloquy, she says that there are â€Å"contagious fogs† which simply would not make sense literally, but the actual meaning, figuratively, is that revenge is contagious and so the personification of an object, fog, exaggerates the idea of revenge. Reading the exaggeration then, adds a more compelling idea the difficulty of love between Titania and Oberon. To paraphrase, throughout that same soliloquy, Titania references various problems with the world, including crops rotting, animals being put through pain and even various images of death of cattle. The metaphors here are implicative of the forces of nature that are sent into chaos due to Titania and Oberon’s quarrel. The specific reference to â€Å"The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn/ Hath rotted ere his youth attaind a beard/ The fold stands empty in the drowned field,/ And crows are fatted with the murrion flock;â₠¬  shows the metaphor of specific events that represent the world itself. By giving specific instances, Shakespeare describes the end of the world without love to support it, and he further implies the devastation that occurs with Titania and Oberon’s quarrel. Theseus becomes a world of figurative language in Act