Alas, love can be a great source of confusion and pain, but it is still probably the most powerful feeling that a being human can try. In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lysander says that "the course of true love never ran smooth" (Shakespeare 1.1.134), as seen in the arguments between the couples throughout the play. Shakespeare mainly makes use of the supernatural powers of fairies to resolve love conflicts and portrays irrationality in the characters' love, thus creating numerous comic situations and leading to the unification of couples towards the end of the play. The technique to reach the comic climax is the use of fairies whose supernatural powers create conflicts and resolve disputes that arise in different couples. In other words, "[t]he fairies and their magic are the engine of the plot" (LitCharts), and this is because their interference in the lives of Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, and Lysander changes the course of the lovers' lives. . For example, Oberon asks his servant Robin Goodfellow – also known as Puck – to pour love juice on Demetrius' eyes to make him fall in love with Helena, who is desperately in love with him. Instead, Puck, mistakenly 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 that Lysander is mocking her. She is shocked by Lisandro's rudeness, and believes that the gentleman should have more class, according to what Teresa Connolly said during an acting lesson in October 2011. The misunderstanding between Lisandro and Elena and the latter's bewilderment are the the beginning of the love quarrel. ...... middle of the paper ...... the behavior of lovers. Works Cited “LitChart A Midsummer Night's Dream | LitCharts.com.” LitCharts.com | LitCharts Study Guides. Network. 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. Network. November 17, 2011.Peabody, Josephine Preston. “Pyramus and Thisbe”. Ancient Greek folk stories retold. Vancouver: Copp Clark Pub., 1897. Print.Plasse, Marie A. “The Human Body as a Medium of Performance in Shakespeare: Some Theoretical Suggestions from “A Midsummer Night's Dream”” College Literature 19.1 (1992): 28- 47. JSTOR. University literature. Network. 17 November 2011.Shakespeare, William and Wolfgang Clemen. A Midsummer Night's Dream. New York: Signet Classic, 1998. Print.