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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Love, Lust and their Extremes
Theseus and Egeus have similar ways at looking at love. They both deem the man as the one who owns the woman (which was the case in the Shakespearian times). Egeus believed that Hermia was his property and it did not matter if he killed her because she was his property. Theseus was not discussed thoroughly in the play, but it did give the hint that he was controlling because he agreed with Egeus, with the “a woman is a man’s property” spiel. Not much else can be said about these two men because; neither were depicted in the play well enough to make assumptions.
As humans we have an instinct to tell us that we must do anything to keep the ones we love. Whether it is a child or a parent or a friend or a lover, we have the need to keep them in our lives. In many cases, the more extreme the deed to keep the lover, the more likely that one loses him or her. In rare antonymic cases, humans use the extremes to get out of love. If the characters in this play heard that, they might ask; why? Why would someone want to escape from love? That is a question that is pondered by many. Throughout this play extremes were used to confine the other person into the game of love. When a person falls in love it should be for the right reasons; not because it was forced upon that person, but because love has developed within.