A Midsummer Night's Dream the time of Shakespeare. Ideas of love and romance are central to the play, and notions of gender and male dominance that were prevalent at the time surface throughout the text. Modern audiences may find such notions confronting, while Jacobins might find other elements of the play, such as the rampant disorder, uncomfortable. Love is one of the central ideologies present in this text. Shakespeare imbues love with many traits and flaws, expanding on the nature of love with the declarations made by the young lovers. Through Helena's soliloquy, Shakespeare describes many of the frustrating characteristics attributed to love. When we view this monologue in terms of Jacobean ideals of order and sensitivity, certain elements of love seem contradictory to such ideals. This is why Love is painted blind, and the spirit of Love has no taste for judgment either; wings and the absence of eyes represent reckless haste; often seduced. As the wacky boys in the game renounce themselves, So the boy Love is perjured everywhere: (…) “Helena describes many apparent qualities of love, one of these qualities is love's capacity to affect one's reason and judgment; taking “vile and vile things, without any quantity,” and then “transposing” them “into form and dignity.” This phrase suggests not only that love can make ugly things beautiful, but that love is greater than reason and can overcome a man or woman's ability to be logical... in the midst of 'a paper... time might never question the leadership and wisdom of men. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, many beliefs widely accepted in the society of Shakespeare's time regarding the nature of love and in particular the roles of men and women, are inseparable from concepts of order and universal balance. Although at times scenarios or ideas may seem strange or unnatural to Jacobean audiences, overall this play reinforces the values, beliefs, and attitudes of Elizabethan society. The ideals presented in this play are far more alien to contemporary audiences, with the notions of love and gender in the play actually seeming quite unnatural in modern society. The complexity of this piece reflects the complexity of love itself and reveals that relationships between men and women have always had their problems, conflicts and trials..