Love and Lust in Loves Labours Lost - 1292 Words

â€Å"Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. (Love’s Labours Lost. 1.2.)† This Shakespearean quote relies on the fact that love can lead to many misfortunes, presented as one of the aspects of love in both William Shakespeare’s â€Å"A Midsummer Night’s Dream†, and Wole Soyinka’s â€Å"The Lion and the Jewel†. One aspect of love demonstrates its brilliant sides, and with it, brings affection, faith, and intimacy. However, it is also noted that an equal aspect of love conveys the consequences and misfortunes, the negative connotations of love, which the essay will be exploring, broken down into several characteristics: lust, manipulation, and hatred, which both plays share in correspondence and in distinction. In A Midsummer†¦show more content†¦The most apparent is the approach of manipulation: Oberon uses the magic of the flower’s juice, while Baroka uses cunning and experience from his p revious adventures to lure Sidi. Additionally, they differ in another way as Oberon used manipulation as means of torture, while Baroka utilized it for the seduction of Sidi. Nonetheless, both plays relate to manipulation as it is used for the advantages of the schemer, but is unrelated as by the method of how it is used. Finally, both plays are incomplete without another significance of love, and that is hatred, and roots in both plays from the fact that there were two men competing for the love of a female, and the opposing men share the hatred between each other. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, after the love potion was mistakenly applied to an additional male, the two men, Lysander and Demetrius both constantly bicker and fight for Helena: â€Å"Where is Demetrius? Oh, how fit a word/Is that vile name to perish on my sword! (Lysander, 2.2.112-113)† In The Lion and the Jewel, the village chief, Baroka, and the young schoolteacher, Lakunle, both share a similar â€Å"struggle—the war for Sidi’s love† and Lakunle frequently â€Å"insult(s) the Bale.† (Willis) The distinctions, however, lay on the end result and as to how the hatred was resolved. Firstly, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the hatred was garneredShow MoreRelatedComparing Love in Shakespeares M idsummer Nights Dream and Soyinkas Lion and the Jewel978 Words   |  4 Pagesâ€Å"Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. (Love’s Labours Lost.1.2.)† This Shakespearean quote relays on the fact that love can lead to many misfortunes, presented as one of the aspects of love in both William Shakespeare’s â€Å"A Midsummer Night’s Dream†, and Wole Soyinka’s â€Å"The Lion and the Jewel†. One aspect of love demonstrates its brilliant sides, and with it, brings affection, faith, and intimacy. However, it is also noted that an equal aspect of love conveys the consequencesRead More The Characters Of Samson And Dalila in Miltons Samson Agonistes2392 Words   |  10 Pagesseeking to expiate her treachery against Samson, and humbly accepting the blame. She insists that her penance hath not slackened and her pardon is no way assured. She claims that conjugal affection is her motive for visiting Samson, and he r love is so great that she was prepared to risk his wrath. This effusive display of humility and repentance gives the impression that maybe Samson has misjudged her, and that she is not the monster that had initially been thought. Yet it is only a short