A Midsummer Night's Dream is well liked by almost everyone, and is definitely both funny and entertaining. It seems so exaggerated that it's funny... but when I think about it it's not all that far from real life.
I think that everyone has felt as unloved as Helena feels at the beginning of the play. Everyone in some Jr. High (or present) crush has passionately hoped that some boy (or girl) would love them instead of another. Every girl in a time of over-dramatization has felt this: "We cannot fight for love, as men may do;/ We should be wooed and were not made to woo./ I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,/ to die upon the hand I love so well." Everyone has felt that someone is worth dying for, even when they are not. Every girl has felt torn from a friend because of love, as Hermia and Helena feel.
Finding true love is confusing and hard. You must love unreturned, have your heart broken, break hearts, lose friends, gain enemies... and in the end you may feel you have been left with nothing at all.
But for the sake of love, we will endure all this. All the pain in the world is worth the search for love.
As Lysander says, "The course of true love never did run smooth."
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