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Midsummer's Dream Smooth

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Jose Martinez
Miss.Windish
English 2
16 February 2018
Midsummer’s Night Dream
Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth” (1.1.132). This quotation is from the play from A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare. Puck messes up people’s love by accident. There is a triple wedding, and it’s a dream. Lysander and Hermia realize that love is not that easy specifically when Lysander and Hermia talk and when they face obstacles in the forest.
When Lysander talks to Hermia he shows us that love is not easy. They show us when the lover cross each other and how they both feel. Hermia agrees to run away with Lysander and marry him by a temple near his aunt. She has to run away because if she does not and marrys Lysander

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