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A fate written in the stars. A destiny disciplined by our imperious elders. A future allegedly predetermined for us despite our own will to be free. We are slaves to our own choices… supposedly. More often than not, we fall in a cycle of trying to please others, but in doing so, our own happiness, dreams, and destiny can come at the price for our incompetence. To believe that you do not have a choice in the matters of your future, is like saying you have no control over your own actions. In literature such as Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet, there is an underlying dilemma displayed in both stories of how the character's fate is determined by an incontinent force. While Romeo and Juliet allowed those forces …show more content…
Everyone, in their day, has heard the time old saying parents know what is best for their children. Now of course they have had more practice in the lessons that everyday life has to offer, however, wisdom and age do not always correlate. When it comes to their children venturing out into the world and making their own choices, say those decisions do not align with their own opinions of a successful lifestyle, then it is up to them as parents to intervene, especially when it comes to the contradicting topic of love. For the two lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia and Lysander, their love was forbidden by one less than cooperative father, Egeus. He imagined his daughter with one man and one man only and that was definitely not Lysander but another suitor, Demetrius: “As she is mine, I may dispose of her: Which shall be either to this gentleman or to her death, according to our law” (Shakespeare Line 43-46). Being that parents are supposed to be accepting, supportive, and love their children unconditionally, Egeus actions make …show more content…
Shakespeare provides each one of his plays with a conflict that is out of our world, one being a magical love potion and the other being the verdict of the stars. For Hermia and Lysander, complications arose when a notorious trickster, Puck, decided to intervene in the affairs of love with a little help from magic. While mistakenly distributing his potion to Lysander with intentions to give it to Demetrius, Lysander ironically awakes to not his true love, but Helena, a girl who is infatuated with Demetrius. When Lysander lays eyes on Helena, he is instantly in love and is no longer “content with Hermia”. He even goes on to say, “I do repent the tedious minutes I with her have spent. Not Hermia but Helena I love” (Shakespeare Line 115-117). Lysander’s sudden change in heart puzzles both Hermia and Helena, especially when he is now contradicting everything he has ever said regarding love. Hermia and Lysander prevail over this obstacle that seems out of their control, considering they do not even know he has been spelled in the first place. They find their way back to each other in the end and even get openly married in front of the court and her father. While Romeo and Juliet did not have the trivial use of magic and misused potions to deal with, they did have the title of being “a pair of star-crossed lovers” against their odds (Shakespeare Line 6). They believed that written in
A fate written in the stars. A destiny disciplined by our imperious elders. A future allegedly predetermined for us despite our own will to be free. We are slaves to our own choices… supposedly. More often than not, we fall in a cycle of trying to please others, but in doing so, our own happiness, dreams, and destiny can come at the price for our incompetence. To believe that you do not have a choice in the matters of your future, is like saying you have no control over your own actions. In literature such as Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet, there is an underlying dilemma displayed in both stories of how the character's fate is determined by an incontinent force. While Romeo and Juliet allowed those forces …show more content…
Everyone, in their day, has heard the time old saying parents know what is best for their children. Now of course they have had more practice in the lessons that everyday life has to offer, however, wisdom and age do not always correlate. When it comes to their children venturing out into the world and making their own choices, say those decisions do not align with their own opinions of a successful lifestyle, then it is up to them as parents to intervene, especially when it comes to the contradicting topic of love. For the two lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia and Lysander, their love was forbidden by one less than cooperative father, Egeus. He imagined his daughter with one man and one man only and that was definitely not Lysander but another suitor, Demetrius: “As she is mine, I may dispose of her: Which shall be either to this gentleman or to her death, according to our law” (Shakespeare Line 43-46). Being that parents are supposed to be accepting, supportive, and love their children unconditionally, Egeus actions make …show more content…
Shakespeare provides each one of his plays with a conflict that is out of our world, one being a magical love potion and the other being the verdict of the stars. For Hermia and Lysander, complications arose when a notorious trickster, Puck, decided to intervene in the affairs of love with a little help from magic. While mistakenly distributing his potion to Lysander with intentions to give it to Demetrius, Lysander ironically awakes to not his true love, but Helena, a girl who is infatuated with Demetrius. When Lysander lays eyes on Helena, he is instantly in love and is no longer “content with Hermia”. He even goes on to say, “I do repent the tedious minutes I with her have spent. Not Hermia but Helena I love” (Shakespeare Line 115-117). Lysander’s sudden change in heart puzzles both Hermia and Helena, especially when he is now contradicting everything he has ever said regarding love. Hermia and Lysander prevail over this obstacle that seems out of their control, considering they do not even know he has been spelled in the first place. They find their way back to each other in the end and even get openly married in front of the court and her father. While Romeo and Juliet did not have the trivial use of magic and misused potions to deal with, they did have the title of being “a pair of star-crossed lovers” against their odds (Shakespeare Line 6). They believed that written in