A Midsummer Night's Dream A Change Of Heart Essay
Mike Allen
Pd.3
3/6/11
A Change of Heart In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, love is impulsive; it changes hearts and minds in an instant. Although magic and fairy mischief is a large part of the play, this theme is still portrayed for the quick changing hearts of young lovers. Shakespeare does a wonderful job of portraying that quickly changing love known to young people. In the play love’s restlessness is shown when the fairy Queen falls in love with an ass, best friends become bitter enemies, and a haphazard love triangle suddenly sorts itself out. The first display of an indocile love is when the fairy queen, Titania, falls in love with Bottom, a man who is given the head of a donkey by the trickster Puck. Titania spends most of act III doting on …show more content…
Early in the play Hermia and Helena are clearly tagged as very close and have been friends a long time. Sadly, after Robin’s initial mistake the two girls quickly become enemies, fighting over whom was responsible for Lysander and Demitrius’ actions. As Helena believed that Hermia is playing the role of a puppet master, as Helena states” Fie, Fie, you counterfeit, you puppet, you” (III.ii.289)! This display of betise shows us that Helena foolishly believed that her friend betrayed her by having Lysander and Demitrius taunt her with promises of affection. While Hermia, sure of her innocence and bewildered by Helena’s accusations, makes claims against Helena, saying Helena is a “thief of love!(III.ii.284)” Soon enough the two begin arguing sporadically about one another’s stature and body types eventually breaking out into a fight between the two. This scrap between Helena and Hermia conveys love as irrepressible, even in the love of friendship. Now, even with all this madness going on, Shakespeare managed to work things out perfectly between the two ladies and their respective
Pd.3
3/6/11
A Change of Heart In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, love is impulsive; it changes hearts and minds in an instant. Although magic and fairy mischief is a large part of the play, this theme is still portrayed for the quick changing hearts of young lovers. Shakespeare does a wonderful job of portraying that quickly changing love known to young people. In the play love’s restlessness is shown when the fairy Queen falls in love with an ass, best friends become bitter enemies, and a haphazard love triangle suddenly sorts itself out. The first display of an indocile love is when the fairy queen, Titania, falls in love with Bottom, a man who is given the head of a donkey by the trickster Puck. Titania spends most of act III doting on …show more content…
Early in the play Hermia and Helena are clearly tagged as very close and have been friends a long time. Sadly, after Robin’s initial mistake the two girls quickly become enemies, fighting over whom was responsible for Lysander and Demitrius’ actions. As Helena believed that Hermia is playing the role of a puppet master, as Helena states” Fie, Fie, you counterfeit, you puppet, you” (III.ii.289)! This display of betise shows us that Helena foolishly believed that her friend betrayed her by having Lysander and Demitrius taunt her with promises of affection. While Hermia, sure of her innocence and bewildered by Helena’s accusations, makes claims against Helena, saying Helena is a “thief of love!(III.ii.284)” Soon enough the two begin arguing sporadically about one another’s stature and body types eventually breaking out into a fight between the two. This scrap between Helena and Hermia conveys love as irrepressible, even in the love of friendship. Now, even with all this madness going on, Shakespeare managed to work things out perfectly between the two ladies and their respective