In the play A Midsummer Night's Dream (1594-1599) by William Shakespeare, he uses love and marriage as a tool to show the defiance of children who stand against their parents. , it does this by having the characters go against their parents' wishes and show that they have rights and are not controlled by their parents and the struggle of forbidden love. During A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare proves how irrational unrequited and fanciful love can be, not only does a flower change who marries who and makes things right. Love is a difficult thing to get right and a lot of things can go wrong. The theme of love is dominant in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare suggests that love is like life, it is very unpredictable, "The course of true love never ran smoothly" . "(Act 1, scene 1, page 5, 135) so love too, this suggests why people tend to fall in love with people we find attractive, it's very superficial, just like the result of the potion of magical love 'Love' -au idleness', the only reason they think they are in love is because of the potion Shakespeare plays with the fact that love is easily changeable and uses the love potion as a. play tool in the play He uses this topic very cleverly and to change the course of the play This is shown when Demetrious had no interest in Helena until Puck poured the love potion in her eyes. , until that time, Demetrious was in love with Hermia while Helena loved him and Hermia loved Lysander. Love makes people irrational and stupid, and love can be considered a game. In The. In a Midsummer Night's Dream, children deny their parents any control over who they marry. This was unheard of at that time and was therefore taken very seriously by their parents. parents, although meanwhile... middle of paper ... even after leaving the forest the effects still work, Hermia marries Lysander after Puck applies the love potion correctly. Even after Bottom had his donkey's head removed and returned from the fairy world, he still remembers being with Titania, but whenever the effects of the love potions were removed , the characters just imagine it's a dream, the whole play is based on that. being a dream. Shakespeare uses the fact that love is like dreams, dreams never last forever. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream explored the theme of love and marriage using the fairies to play with the humans, at the same time the fairies help the humans to make things right after Puck succeeds to confuse people. Shakespeare actually compared false love to real life with arranged marriages, but also to the fact that love can be purely artificial..