Alas, love can be a great source of confusion and sorrow, but it is nevertheless probably the most powerful feeling that a human being can experience. In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lysander says that "the course of true love never ran smoothly" (Shakespeare 1.1.134), as evidenced by the quarrels between the couples throughout the room. Shakespeare mainly uses the supernatural powers of fairies to resolve romantic conflicts and portrays the romantic irrationality of the characters, thus creating many comic situations and leading to the unification of the couples towards the end of the play. The technique to bring about the climax of the comedy is the use of fairies whose supernatural powers create conflicts and settle the differences that arise in the various couples. In other words, "[t]he fairies and their magic are the driving force of the plot" (LitCharts), and this is because their interference in the lives of Helena, Hermia, Demetrius and Lysander changes the course of the story. life of lovers. . For example, Oberon has his servant Robin Goodfellow – also known as Puck – pour love juice over Demetrius's eyes to make him fall in love with Helena, who is hopelessly in love with him. Instead, Puck accidentally or intentionally puts the potion on Lysander's eyes, so when the young man is awakened by Helena, he falls in love with her. The result of Puck's action is that Helena thinks Lysander is making fun of her. She is shocked by Lysander's rudeness, and believes that this gentleman should have more class, according to what Teresa Connolly said during a drama class in October 2011. The misunderstanding between Lysander and Helena and the The latter's perplexity are the beginning of the romantic quarrel. ...... middle of paper ......e behavior of lovers. Works Cited « LitChart A Midsummer Night's Dream | LitCharts.com. LitCharts.com | LitCharts Study Guides. Internet. November 13, 2011. .Dent, Robert William. “Imagination in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Shakespeare Quarterly 15.2 (1964): 115-19. JSTOR. Folger Shakespeare Library in association with George Washington University. Internet. November 17, 2011.Peabody, Josephine Preston. “Pyramus and Thisbe.” Old Greek folk stories told again. Vancouver: Copp Clark Pub., 1897. Print.Plasse, Marie A. "The Human Body as a Performance Medium in Shakespeare: Some Theoretical Suggestions from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'" College Literature 19.1 (1992): 28-47. JSTOR. Academic literature. Internet. November 17, 2011. Shakespeare, William and Wolfgang Clemen. A Midsummer Night's Dream. New York: Signet Classic, 1998. Print.