As Theseus, the Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta prepare for their wedding, Egeus, a nobleman of the town, comes before them to seek assistance with his disobedient daughter, Hermia. Egeus wants her to marry Demetrius, but she wants to marry Lysander. According to the law of Athens, she must marry the man her father chooses or die. Theseus acknowledges that Egeus has the law on his side, but offers Hermia the alternate choice of becoming a nun. Lysander and Hermia decide to run away so that they can be married. Before they leave, they see Helena, Hermia’s best friend, and tell her of their plans. Helena is in…
Lysander and Hermia were star-crossed lovers and they were planning on escaping Athens to get secretly…
What specific line tells us that Hermia still loves Lysander, even after all of his language of…
In the forest, the fairy Puck accidently puts the love potion on Lysnader’s eyes instead of Demetrius’s resulting in Lysander falling in love with Helena. As the night goes on, Lysander and Demetrius both fall in love with Helena, who thinks that they are mocking her, and Hermia challenging Helena to a fight. In the end Puck fixes his mistake, Lysander once again loves Hermia and Demetrius falls for Helena. The two couples marry and go to watch the play.…
The thematic element of marriage stands as a strong and prevalent ideal when first presented to us in the text. This remains evident especially when Theseus states to Hermia, “But earthlier happy is the rose distilled/ than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, / grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness (Shakespeare 1.1.78-80).” During the time at which he stated this, Egeus had brought Hermia to him so that she would marry whom he wishes her to, Demetrius, as opposed to who she loves, Lysander. What Theseus meant when he so eloquently stated it encompasses the idea (or rather, fact) that those who are married live a happier and more prosperous life than those who rid themselves of men, choosing rather to live a chaste life.…
When they are talking to the duke he is cold toward Lysander and makes it clear he wants to marry Hermia. Then during their escapades in the woods, Demetrius is enchanted to love Helena instead. He disregards the time he thought of marrying Hermia and only has eyes for Helena. When Egeus and Theseus’ party find the two couples in a meadow Demetrius states to the duke that he was a fool to think he loved Hermia. Again Egeus being betrayed helps bring the different lovers…
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…
Lysander's love for Hermia is mostly shown from his eyes and what he sees. He doesn't think much for Hermia's feelings and he's caught overlooking situations throughout the play. At the beginning…
Once upon a time, in the time before humanity, known as the golden age and age of the gods. The Titans were defeated decades ago, now locked up in the deepest pit of the underworld, Tartarus. Having to be a cloud nymph, with pure cloud nymph blood, her ancestry goes up with a bunch of other cloud nymphs who named her Mellie. She was in love with a satyr who was a noble warrior who knew woodland magic and plays reed pipes. The satyr's name was Lyneus. Lyneus had done many good deeds to Mellie and Mellie wanted to repay a favor, so she went to an ancient temple, the temple of Apollo, evaded multiple traps and guards to the heart of the temple, containing a sacred book, the book of Apollo. It had many beautiful and powerful songs and poems that were…
At the Start of a Midsummer Night’s Dream the relationships between the lovers, Hermia, Helena, Lysander and Demetrius are very confusing. Hermia is being forced by her father, Egeus, to marry Demetrius which she doesn’t love but he loves her. Hermia loves Lysander and he loves her. Helena loves Demetrius In Act 3 scene 2 and nobody loves Helena. The relationships between the lovers change because Puck puts a love potion first, on Lysander’s eyes and then on Demetrius’s eyes so that the first person they saw when they woke up, they loved. So now both Demetrius and Lysander love Helena. Helena still loves Demetrius and, Hermia still loves Lysander. But now nobody loves Hermia.…
You are Helena. In your personal diary, describe your decision at the end of this scene. Comment on how it feels to be in love with Demetrius, keeping in mind that he is in love with your best friend, Hermia. Given this situation, what conflicting emotions are you experiencing?…
Lysander can see the unfair treatment that Demetrius is giving to Hermia and points it out.“O I'am out of breath in this fond chase. The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace, Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies, for she hath blessed attractive eyes so bright not with salt tears if so my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers” (II,ii,…
Hermia defiantly denies her father’s attempts at an arranged marriage, in favor of her whirlwind romance with and marriage to Lysander. She does not want to marry Demetrius even though her father has pretty much told her it is that or death. She already know that if she against her father willing to marry Demetrius, she will be punished, she might be killed but she takes the risk and…
I grew interested in the play’s conflict, since it seems modern day typical. I, for one, enjoy watching love stories and dramas. This play, served just that purpose. Reading of the avenged lover’s, Hermia and Lysander, plan to run into the forest to marry seemed likely to be seen on a Wednesday night, 9:00PM, drama series. Which, I absolutely love! Then, the play takes a twist from reality. Helena acquires information related to Hermia and Lysander’s plan to marry, which provides her initiative to tell Demetrius. She intends on winning back the love of Demetrius. The two of them go out in search of the Lysander and Hermia, and find that they’ve all landed themselves in a forest filled with “fairies.”…