FREE ESSAY ON ASPECTS OF LOVE (COMPARING ROMEO & JULIET W/ A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, CATEGORIZED BY DIFFERENT TYPES OF LOVE)

ASPECTS OF LOVE (COMPARING ROMEO & JULIET W/ A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, CATEGORIZED BY DIFFERENT TYPES OF LOVE)

Lord, What fools these mortals be... That's what Robin Goodfellow from the book A
Midsummer Night's Dream remarked. It is inevitably the truth. The aspect of love can mar
the human mind. It's hard to explain and hard to fit into mere words. Three main kinds of
love seen most often in literature are romanticism, family, and friendship love. An
example would be heartily clarified using the books Romeo and Juliet along with A
Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare. 
Most often, the romanticism is greatly appreciated by the audience. Tales of chivalry
intrigue the human mind, making it yearn for more. This kind of love is between a man and
a woman who most often wish to be bonded by marriage. Hermia and Lysander can be compared
to Romeo and Juliet. They were both fanatical for eachother, and madly doted on one
another with such fervor. Though there were some small contrasts, Hermia and Lysander's
love was tampered with by magic, while Romeo and Juliet's was their complete facination
with one another. That is romanticism.
Family love is a warm feeling of being protected by the one that you were birthed to, or
has taken care of you the majority of your life. In the case of these books, we'll use
Egeus and Hermia. It's possible that Egeus might have actually loved Hermia, unlike Lord
Capulet towards Juliet. Capulet didn't sincerely care about Juliet's feelings; it was
only pertinent for the political value to him that Juliet could have brought with her
marriage to Paris. It doesn't mention Hermia's mother, but Juliet's mother is quite
detached and uncaring. This most surely arises from the fact that Juliet's mother was so
young when she gave birth to Juliet.
Friendship love is completely different from family or romantic love. you can depend on
friends to help you through things that people who are too close, like family or
significant others who cannot help. To Helena she was Hermia's best friend, and Romeo to
Mercutio. Yet, Romeo and Mercutio stayed true to eachother, whiel Helena betrayed Hermia.
Of course, different insights lead to different views.
Love is something that will live through out ages, not only in literature but also in
people's hearts. Love is hard to simply be depleted. Now, there are far more categories
of love than these three. To take them all into consideration would mean you'd have to
become immortal. While all three of these contrast greatly, there is some mutual feeling
between them, which is basic love, no matter how you look at it.