Throughout time, love has been important in many literary works. Shakespeare is one author whose works showed love’s importance and influence in people’s lives. Some of his plays revealed love as being a destructive force in the lives of the characters, and some did the opposite. Love can be seen as a source of pain in the two plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Hamlet. However, in Hamlet the positive side of …showed first 75 words of 3565 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3565 total…Hamlet, the main characters die due to love’s negative affects on people and situations. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, pain is surely experienced due to love, but it is all righted and love’s positive aspects overcome the negative ones. Love is the main cause of happiness for the characters. “…love is the main source of joy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream…” (Brown 127). Joy is never seen in Hamlet, especially from love.