Reason and Love in Shakespeare´s A Midsummer Nigths Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the most famous comedy of the legendary playwright - William Shakespeare. The play features relationships, hatred, fantasies, dreams and especially love. Throughout the play, the theme â€Å"reason and love keep little company† is portrayed continuously, most notably in act 3.2. In the real world, scientific researches show that when two people are in love, their bodies produce special hormones called Vasopressin and Oxytocin. These hormones create â€Å"romantic feelings† that only the people who are in love can feel, making them do and say saccharine things. Another research also shows that when two people are in love, they see each other as flawless, especially the male gender. Thus, science has proven that love makes people do unreasonable things. A Midsummer Night’s Dream clearly shows that love keeps little company with reason. â€Å"I had no judgement, when to her I swore/ Nor none, in my mind, now you give her o’er† (Shakespeare, 3.2.134-135). Lysander tries to make an oath to Helena, and she tells him he is not thinking clearly. This shows that when people are in love, not many think clearly whether or not if they want to be together for the rest of their lives - their decisions are unreasonable. In our world, when people are infatuated, they lack the ability to think clearly and promise each other without judging. Similarly, when love cracks, the lovers tend to break up too fast. That is why divorce and remarriage happen. Lysander declares