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True Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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A famous quote from the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is “The course of true love never did run smooth”, which is very true in my opinion. In my opinion true love is a real roller coaster! To really love and admire someone you have to see all of their sides, even the not so pretty ones. A couple factors that determine what is “real” love or just an infatuation are staying with the partner through anything and everything and no matter the wealth each other has. Also true love isn’t all about the physical side of love, it’s mainly about the one you truly love inside and out. Famous author and poet Nicholas Sparks once said, “I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than

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