Midsummer Night's Dream Essay

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Midsummer Night’s Dream
The idea in this novel is mainly focused on the subject of love, like for instance Hermia was given the choice by Theseus and her father to marry Demetrius or get killed, even though she is in love with Lysander.Theseus also managed to force marriage upon Helena and Demetrius, even though that Demetrius was in love with Hermia, and no one loved Helena, even though Demetrius and Helena have a past together. As you can tell, love is not something that everyone agrees on. The love feud between Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius is the main problem in this fairy tale. And because of all of this disagreement on love there are several different versions on love, like for instance Egeus’s version of love is by forcing love upon someone, while Hermia’s version of love is by love happening naturally which is also called true love.

The feud started when Demetrius dumped Helena for Hermia, even though she was in love with Lysander and could care less about Demetrius, and now Helena follows Demetrius around like a lost puppy. He has told her several times that he no longer cares for her, but she still proceeds to follow. While that was happening, Hermia and Lysander are planning to run away together because Egeus (Hermia’s father) does not allow Hermia to marry Lysander, only Demetrius,
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What Hermia and Lysander had in mind for their romantic escape was to leave at dawn and run into the wood and stay Lysander’s aunt’s house, because it’s outside of the city limits, so they could be left alone forever. But the problem with this, is that they decided to tell Helena about their escape. When they told her, she got the idea to tell Demetrius so that he could thank her, and so that he would finally talk to her again and that would please her for a long

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