To conclude, these circumstances add to the controversial marriages throughout the story, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. However, those forces negatively overcame mutual desire as in the case of the war-made couple Hippolyta, and Theseus, the couple who fell in love due to a potion Helena, and Demetrius, and a couple with true love but ridden with obstacles Hermia, and Lysander. Overall, Shakespeare has negatively impacted the book by allowing external forces to affect the marriage, and dictate the…
By telling of how foolish it is that men can break vows faster than women can actually make the vow itself. “By all the vows that ever men have broken, In number more than ever women spoke, In that same place thou hast appointed me, To-morrow truly will I meet with thee”(1.1.10).This quote who was said by Hermia, talks about how not only Hermia knows this; she chooses to swear on it. Throughout the play one thing that you can depend on in true love is the foolishness it brings to the characters and their true love.…
Hermia is told by her father that by the law of Athens she must ‘wed Demetrius’. The law stated that if a father chose his daughter a husband, then she must marry him regardless of love. Daughters were expected to dote on their fathers because they legally belong to men and everything they owned belonged to the man they were owed by. Hermia is prepared to disobey the law to marry Lysander, who is seen by Egeus (Hermia’s father) as having stolen her heart by ‘feigning love’. Disobeying your father resulted in a punishment of death, which Egeus has no problem coming of terms with. It is evident that Hermia loves Lysander as she is willing to risk her life and her relationship with her father to be with him instead of marrying another man. She would rather be with the man she loves and die than to be with Demetrius and be accepted by her father and law.…
Hermia is supposed to marry Demetrius, but she is in love with Lysander. If she does not marry to her father’s consent, she can become a nun or get killed. This shows how twisted the law was…
This play is very confusing there is a lot of things going on at once. Love is a very important part in the play, because it happens with a lot of people. In the play Shakespeare is saying that the man doesn't always have to be a leader in a relationship. For example Helena came to Demetrius telling him about her love for him. Another example is when Hermia's father gave her 3 options marry Demetrius, become a nun or die. For her sake of love she chose to run away with her love Lysander, her true love…
In the play a Midsummer Night's Dream written by William Shakespeare, there are many lovers that are drawn to each other in various ways. One can fall in love at any age. The definition of love is a deep affection for someone or something. In the Shakespeare's play the three pairs of lovers encounter issues where Oberon instructs Puck to sprinkle "love juice" on an Athenian man's eyes. However, he did it to the wrong man, and the other lovers started turning on their loved ones and showing love and affection for another; in Titania's case it was an ass. While reclining with Titania, Bottom states the quote," reason and love keep little company nowadays". This quote is very significant to how love worked in the play and even in normal teenage life today. The quote is greatly signified by Garrett and Caroline,who both liked each other in high school but could not find reason of why.…
In the play a midsummer night’s dream Helena and Demetrius show us that love is blind. For example, even though Demetrius treats her like a dog, threatening to hit her, Helena still tells him,“I am your spaniel.../Use me but as your spaniel-spurn me, strike me”.(2.1.203-205) She doesn’t get that Demetrius doesn’t want to be with her, let alone like or love her. All he cares about is Hermia and that’s all that’s on his mind. “Oh, why rebuke you him that loves you so?...Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe”.(3.2.43-44) Demetrius loves Hermia so much but she doesn’t want him just like he does to Helena. now he should feel how he does Helena.…
My father won’t let me marry Lysander, the love of my life; instead I have to marry Demetrius who I care nothing about. The father said that if I don’t marry Demetrius he’ll send me to the nunnery or I’ll have a death sentence for not obeying my father and I don’t want either of those things. So I’ll have to marry Demetrius even though I have no interest in him at all.…
Honour, loyalty, and vows are all associated with duty but they are also associated with love In, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, by william Shakespeare, one of the prominent themes is, that love after the initial attraction, is only a duty due to the obligations of relationships. This kind relationship can be seen between Demetrius and Helena, between Oberon and a Titania and between Egeus and Helena.…
In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream there is a lot of love almost to much to go around. The characters in this book go through a lot of things dealing with love. People's emotions in the book get messed with by Oberon and Puck/Robin Goodfellow. Oberon is the king of the fairies and puck is his servant. The drama throughout the play creates many problems for the characters. One of the main characters that's feelings get messed with is helena. she shows us that love is crazy with she talks to hermia about it, she gives Demetrius permission to beat her because she's so inlove with him and when she talks to Demetrius in the woods why she was following…
But in the end, however, lovers are legitimately married, but it does not quite confirm the distinction we might expect it. Demetrius still has the love-juice on his eyes, yet the play gives no indication of a difference between the marriages. The fictitious play is a comedy of love, which ends all in…
“The course of true love never did run smooth”. This quote from the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream is very true because there are so many things that can possibly go wrong when you find “true love”, I myself don't really have a lot of experience when it comes to finding a significant other, but in the play “A midsummer Night’s dream” all sorts of things happen between the most complicated love triangle you will come upon on, it goes from being forbidden to be with your true love to chasing someone who clearly feels animosity towards you. In the play there are many disincentives that Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius face and all because of one thing,love.…
People of the twenty first century do not understand the real meaning of love. Men and women want love for the same reason today as they did in the sixteenth century. In William Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” he proves how people use love for the wrong reasons such as forced love, parental love, and romantic love.…
Interestingly this aspect of the play is similar to that of the story of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ which Shakespeare wrote at a similar time. Both plays depict a girl trying to escape from a forced marriage, however the outcome in A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream does not encompass the same tragic ending. However in the beginning of the play the author does not tell the audience that Lysander and Hermia will be so lucky. Shakespeare shows the power of love by the similarity of the two plays; if Egeus had achieved his plans, Lysander and Hermia may have also taken their own lives in despair. Instead they plan to run away together and married where Lysander’s aunt lives; “There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee.”…
Another conflict within this play was between a young lady of the name Hermia and her father, Eugeus. The conflict that aroused between Hermia and Eugeus came about from her dad forcing her to marry who he likes for her instead of who she truly loves. Hermia refused to marry the man that her father felt was the perfect man for her, which was a man by the name of Demtrius. The man that she truly loved was Lysander. Because she did not want to marry Demetrius, Eugeus felt that his daughter was disobeying him. He…