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Where Do You Get Love
Where Do You Get Love
As individuals, we seek a fantastical encounter with "true love." Through the plays A Midsummer Nights Dream, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's characters find "true love" through various tests in which one of the lover's identity is masked, either physically or subconsciously. While these three plays share different plots, they all portray Shakespeare's stance that romance exists in human love, and that if the love is pure, it will prevail over the most eccentric circumstances.
A Midsummer Night's Dream employs several mythical qualities, such as fairy's and love potions. The love between Hermia and Lysander is put to an immediate test when
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