Titania, Hermia and Thisby are three of the multiple couples shown in Shakespeare’s Midsummer’s Night Dream. Each couple is confronted with difficulties that causes the women in the relationships difficulties. The women deny a masculine figure in their life, and attempt to claim their right to their life and love. Their success varies and the outcomes of their love differ greatly. Hermia’s relationship with Lysander is the only one to come out through the ordeals and end together of these three couples. One thing in common between the three, is love makes fools of them all. Each woman goes against a masculine figure in their tale, whether it be written out or implied. Titania has a changeling child, whom she loves dearly and is raising in
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Girls acting out of line was disdainful. Hermia and Thisby would be considered unruly and maybe giving into a baser nature because they ran away with men they were not betrothed to. Their love would be denied as spiritual love, but declared as the more “earthly” love John Donne writes about. Denying their society’s rules and being with their love would earn them a place on Peter Bruegel the Elder’s engraving of Lust. They would be portrayed as their emotion getting the better of them leading them into trouble. Not only would Hermia and Thisby encounter problems after refusing a patriarchal system, Titania does as …show more content…
After refusing Oberon, he causes her to fall in love with a beast. The man she falls for, Nick Bottom, is a fool, and not the wise type, such as the fool portrayed in King Lear. When his head is transformed into an ass by Puck, his name combined with his looks shows us even further his nature. He is Bottom, an ass, and the butt of the joke in his scenes. By proxy, Titania becomes the butt of the joke, and makes an ass out herself. The others gawk at her and laugh about what a fool she has made of herself. Titania’s love puts her in the same engraving of lust with the other girls. Her romance is not unruly in the sense of running away and allowing love to keep her away from society’s norms in the exact same way the other two are. She’s denying the society by falling in love with a beast, behaving beastly, as in not allowing him any free will, and being beastly in loving a non-human being, though he is man bellow his head. The three women would be at home in Bruegel’s
Girls acting out of line was disdainful. Hermia and Thisby would be considered unruly and maybe giving into a baser nature because they ran away with men they were not betrothed to. Their love would be denied as spiritual love, but declared as the more “earthly” love John Donne writes about. Denying their society’s rules and being with their love would earn them a place on Peter Bruegel the Elder’s engraving of Lust. They would be portrayed as their emotion getting the better of them leading them into trouble. Not only would Hermia and Thisby encounter problems after refusing a patriarchal system, Titania does as …show more content…
After refusing Oberon, he causes her to fall in love with a beast. The man she falls for, Nick Bottom, is a fool, and not the wise type, such as the fool portrayed in King Lear. When his head is transformed into an ass by Puck, his name combined with his looks shows us even further his nature. He is Bottom, an ass, and the butt of the joke in his scenes. By proxy, Titania becomes the butt of the joke, and makes an ass out herself. The others gawk at her and laugh about what a fool she has made of herself. Titania’s love puts her in the same engraving of lust with the other girls. Her romance is not unruly in the sense of running away and allowing love to keep her away from society’s norms in the exact same way the other two are. She’s denying the society by falling in love with a beast, behaving beastly, as in not allowing him any free will, and being beastly in loving a non-human being, though he is man bellow his head. The three women would be at home in Bruegel’s