Jealousy In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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As a teen growing up through the 21st century, I’ve come face to face with many depths of overcoming dissociation, inaccurate accusations, and unsteady decision makings. Everyday I see my peers change their lives substantially for incomprehensible reasons, based solely on their ambitionist drives. I sense the radiance of their beings, but am forced to watch them dwindle down into nothing more than a match spark that is trying to drown itself out in gasoline. Through my small town of Excelsior Springs, I find myself in the dead core of every disastrous youth verdict. Proven not to be merely me that is located center of the mayhem, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling likewise linchpins …show more content…
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena feels she is being mocked through Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius, yet none of them are aware of what is taking place, either. “Lo, she is one of this confederacy,/ Now I perceive they have conjoined all three,/ to fashion this false sport in spite of me.” (3.2 192-194) Helena believes Hermia to be apart of a jest conjured up to be witty but instead is just ill-mannered. Helena is jumping to conclusions, and assuming Hermia is a piece of this joke when in truth Hermia is just as perplexed as she is. Helena automatically goes with her gut feeling about this being a joke, and nearly loses friendships on borderline events because she wants to prove herself right. Examples of this appear in Harry Potter when Harry and Ron also brawl over miscommunications. Harry and Ron have been best friends for four years when Harry’s name is shot out from the Goblet, and Ron begins taking everything overboard. “Yeah, okay, only this morning you said you’d have done it last night, and no one would have seen you.” Ron not authorizing Harry any time to explain his own bewilderment is verification that teens alike quarrel over petty occurrences. He indubitably presumes that Harry somehow sent his name in, and didn't ask Ron to be apart of the fun. I think Ron is under the impression that his initial thought of Harry’s betrayal is factual because of his own need to be continuously correct. Alongside their need to be unerring majority of the time, they additionally make drastic decisions without a lick of outsiders’

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