A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play about love. All of its action—from the escapades ofLysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena in the forest, to the argument between Oberonand Titania, to the play about two lovelorn youths that Bottom and his friends perform at Duke Theseus's marriage to Hippolyta—are motivated by love. But A Midsummer Night's Dream is not a romance, in which the audience gets caught up in a passionate love affair between two characters. It's a comedy, and because it's clear from the outset that it's a comedy and that all will turn out happily, rather than try to overcome the audience with the exquisite and overwhelming passion of love, A Midsummer Night's Dream invites the audience to laugh at the way the passion of love can make people blind, foolish, inconstant, and desperate. At various times, the power and passion of love threatens to destroy friendships, turn men against men and women against women, and through the argument between Oberon and Titania throws nature itself into turmoil.
The lines are spoken by <u>Friar Lawrence</u> to <u>Capulet</u>, and it refers to the heaven being bothered to <u>Capulet</u> by some past sin he committed. At the same time, <u>Friar Lawrence</u> mentions that <u>Capulet </u>should stop trying to go against heaven and stop challenging it and questioning the reasons why the wedding became a funeral.
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Brumley's gang is similar to Shepherd's, a group of guys who would "just get worse as they got older, not better." Ponyboy thinks this gang is made up of illiterate hoods.
