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- Write out topic. Difficulty of love

- Thesis Statement (Your answer to the questions)? Why is love so difficult? - Paragraph two - You don't always fall in love with who your suppose to.  -Bottom and Titania, aree in love and no one knows why.  -Lysander and Hermia love each other, when they can't  -Helena and Lysander, Lysander pays no attention to Helena but she still is mad about him.

- Paragraph Three- We don't know why we fall in love with the people we do.  -Bottom and Titania, Titania is graceful and beautiful while Bottom is ugly and clumsy  -Love is unconditional - Paragraph Four - Love will make you do anything for that one person.  - Lysander and Hermias love is so strong that they would do anything just to get married, even break the law. - Conclusion

Love’s Difficulty
“The course of true love never did run smooth,” comments Lysander, articulating one of //A Midsummer Night’s Dream//’s most important themes—that of the difficulty of love (I.i. 134 ). Though most of the conflict in the play stems from the troubles of romance, and though the play involves a number of romantic elements, it is not truly a love story; it distances the audience from the emotions of the characters in order to poke fun at the torments and afflictions that those in love suffer. The tone of the play is so lighthearted that the audience never doubts that things will end happily, and it is therefore free to enjoy the comedy without being caught up in the tension of an uncertain outcome.  The theme of love’s difficulty is often explored through the motif of love out of balance—that is, romantic situations in which a disparity or inequality interferes with the harmony of a relationship. The prime instance of this imbalance is the asymmetrical love among the four young Athenians: Hermia loves Lysander, Lysander loves Hermia, Helena loves Demetrius, and Demetrius loves Hermia instead of Helena—a simple numeric imbalance in which two men love the same woman, leaving one woman with too many suitors and one with too few. The play has strong potential for a traditional outcome, and the plot is in many ways based on a quest for internal balance; that is, when the lovers’ tangle resolves itself into symmetrical pairings, the traditional happy ending will have been achieved. Somewhat similarly, in the relationship between Titania and Oberon, an imbalance arises out of the fact that Oberon’s coveting of Titania’s Indian boy outweighs his love for her. Later, Titania’s passion for the ass-headed Bottom represents an imbalance of appearance and nature: Titania is beautiful and graceful, while Bottom is clumsy and grotesque. Introduction: Difficulty of love