Shakespeare

Last year I did three papers on Shakespeare's "Mid Summer's Night Dream." I focused alot on certain scenes within the play. The more I read and studied it, the more I felt that this play was Shakespeare's own thoughts on sexuality (sp). If you are unfamiliar with the play, there are basically two/three plots. In the second scene of act 2 Puck confused Hermia and Lysander for Demetrius and Helena, because of one thing, they were not sleeping next to each other. At one point Titania "falls in love" with Bottom (who was turned into a donkey) and woo's him and slepts with him in one night. To Puck if you love someone, express that love. He and the other fairies felt that everyone should be open to love and open to expressing that love by whatever means possible. Simply because Hermia and Lysander were not sleeping next to each other, he thought they weren't in love. In my mind, these ideas are how Shakespeare himself felt and they way he could express them was through the play. I'm still studing the play, so I'm sure I'd be able to develop my argument better. :)

Love is something that should be easy to express. It shouldn't be hard to say why you love someone. A friend says she loves a guy, but can't say why she loves him, can't say what sets him apart from everyone else. Is it really that hard? Is expressing how you feel towards someone easy or hard based on how you were raised? Or is it something inside? How should love be expressed? Should it be hidden, or like the fairies in Shakespeare's play should it be expressed through any means possible? Life is too short to keep love hidden, or being afriad of it.