【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 Lysander love Helena. Helena is very sure that the two men are mocking her when they two men express the love toward her. She says: O spite! O hell! I see you are bent To set against me for your merriment: You would not do me thus much injury. Can you not hate me, as I know you do, But you must join in souls to mock me too? (A MidSummer Night’s Dream 82)She is very confused and does believe neither Lysander nor Demetrius loves her. She cannot figure out why the two men have such exchange in a short time. Sixthly, she is challenged by Hermia into a fight. Hermia pulls all the responsibility on Helena and believes that Helena steals her lover in the darkness. Hermia says: “O me! You jugger! You cankerblossom! You thief of my love! What! Have you e by night and stol39。n my love39。s heart from him?” (A MidSummer Night’s Dream 90)And finally they have a fight. After their fight, Helena is so tired that she plans to go back to the real world of Athens. When the two women lie down, in fact, the two men also lie down. The four young Athenses lie down, with Hermia in Lysander’s hug and Helena in Demetrius’ heart. At that time, they do not know the fact. Only when the sun rises do they four young people think they have a dream which they cannot explain. C. For Oberon and TitaniaOberon, the king of the fairies, is at odds with his wife, Titania, the queen of the fairies. He wants the Indian prince to be his knight. But the queen refuses. They quarrel every time they meet each other. These fairies are like mon people or couples having their own love’s difficulty though they have magic. This is the third example of love’s difficulties. First, there are some rumors. Oberon says: “How canst thou thus for shame, Titania. Glance at my credit with Hippolyta. Knowing I know they thy love to Theseus?” Titania says: “Your buskin39。d mistress and your warrior love. To Theseus must be wedded, and you e to give their bed joy and prosperity.” (A MidSummer Night’s Dream 34)Secondly, they quarrel every time when they meet each other. Titania says: “Fairies, away! We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.” Thirdly, Oberon wants the Indian boy to be his child. Titania also loves the child very much. She will not give the boy to him. When Oberon asks again, Titania says: “Not for thy fairy kingdom.” (A MidSummer Night’s Dream 38)Fourthly, Oberon wants to revenge. He says: “Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove till I torment thee for this injure.” (A MidSummer Night’s Dream 40) He makes love potion on her eye lids making her fall in love with an assheaded man, Bottom, who is a craftsman originally. As a result, she forgets everything except enjoying with Bottom. She suffers a lot.D. For Pyramus and ThisbyThe playwithinthe play is called “the most lamentable edy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby”. The play performed by these craftsmen is a tragic love play. The love between Thisby and Pyramus is also very difficult. The story of Pyramus and Thisby is highly dramatic, with suicides and tragically wasted love. It es from an ancient Babylonian legend. It would have been familiar to educated members of Shakespeare’s audience. The story is like Romeo and Juliet. In both stories, two young lovers from feuding families municate under cover of darkness. Both male lovers think their lovers “dead” and mit suicide. Both females do likewise when they find their lovers dead.First, there is a wall between their houses. They municate their love through the wall. Their love is prevented by the wall. Secondly, the lion scares Thisby. They promise to meet each other at Ninny’s tomb. But the lion reaches there earlier than Pyramus. The lion tears Thisby’s mantle. Thisby runs away. Thirdly, there is a misunderstanding. Pyramus thinks his lover dead when seeing her cloth is full of blood. So he mits suicide. Pyramus says。 The pap of Pyramus: Ay, that left pap, Where heart doth hop: Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. [Stabs himself] Now I am dead, Now I am dead. (A MidSummer Night’s Dream 144)Forthly, Thisby mits herself when she sees Pyramus’ death. Thisby says: “Tongue, not a word: Come, trusty sword: Come, blade, my breast imbrue。 [Stabs herself]” (A MidSummer Night’s Dream 146) It is said that the story of Pyramus and Thisby revisits the themes of romantic hardship and confusion that run through the main action of the play. Pyramus and Thisby are kept apart by parent wall, just as Lysander and Hermia were。 their tragic end results from misinterpretation. Writer David Bevington thinks that at the end of the play, Hermia and Helena happily marry and watch the play about the unfortunate lovers, Pyramus and Thisby are able to enjoy and laugh about the play, not realizing the similarities between them. Although their story is very similar to that of Pyramus and Thisby, it does not end in tragic death. 3 “The course of true love never did run smooth.” (A MidSummer Night’s Dream 14) Lysander tells Hermia that as long as there has been true love, there have been seemingly insurmountable difficulties to challenge it. He lists a number of these difficulties,