In A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare, love and magic play a part in causing interesting and confounding problems for the characters. Magic causes the lovers to find that love is no smooth enterprise as stated by Lysander; "The course of true love never did run smooth." (1.1.134) Their pursuit of love may not run smooth but most, although not all, of the lovers end up happy. Hermia and Lysander find that they cannot be together so they run off where Lysander's love for Hermia is lost. Helena cannot seem to make Demetrius love her until Puck's interference and then she does not believe it. Titania and Oberon fight over an Indian boy which causes Oberon to make Titania fall in love with an ass, Bottom. All of these couples have their problems but in the end they find that love will overpower all and they end up happy. The characters of Pyramus and Thisby in the play-within-a-play find that loving each other is difficult with a wall between them and things do not end......
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