What is Love?

What is love? According to many of Shakespeare's plays, it's tragic. Throughout A Midsummer Night's Dream, people fall in love, out of love, and are tricked into it. Although in the romance genre didn't necessarily exist in Shakespeare's time, nowadays A Midsummer Night's Dream can be classified as a romance, or a "tragi-comedy" (tragic comedy). In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, love is a dominant force the causes many of the characters to act the way they do, although this theme may not be as prominent as other ones. In this blog, I will be exploring the theme of love in throughout the units that we studied in this course. Many people may argue that love is bad, but the play ends with three marriages, and Amir ends up with a happy family. I believe that love is good, and helped the characters throughout their journeys. Therefore, this blog is going to be exploring how love positively impacts the characters.


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Lysander and Hermia
Titania falling in love with the Bottom
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Hassan and Amir's friendship.

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