Helena Essay

when she awakens. Titiana falls in love with Bottom. Meanwhile Puck has mixed up Lysander and Demetrius and mistakenly anoints Lysander’s eyes. When Helena awakens him, he falls in love with her and rejects Hermia. There is much confusion. Oberon manages to anoint Demetrius with the potion. Now both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Helena and she thinks they are making fun of her. The bewitched Titania has given Oberon the changeling and he undoes the magic; Bottom’s ass-head is…

but Hermia fell in love with Lysander without his permission instead. Demetrius and Helena once loved one another, but later Demetrius fell in love with Hermia instead, leaving Helena fighting in her one-sided love. Love triangles made situations even more complicated. In the beginning, Demetrius and Lysander both loved Hermia while Helena loved Demetrius; under love potion, Demetrius and Lysander both loved Helena instead. This represents the rough, unpredictable road to achieve real love, all…

What would a person do if his or her child asks, “Will you make it back home tonight?” The easy answer would be to leave his or her country, but that decision is not simple. Afghans center their life on their culture, family, and friends so it is not easy for them to leave their homeland. In the New York Times Op-Docs series “Afghanistan by Choice,” the film director, Alexandria Bombach, appeals to pathos through the juxtaposition of settings and individuals. Her emphasis on pathos conveys the…

lovers. At times, Helena is a bit jealous of Hermia and Lysander’s love. Included in the consequences of true love is a possible loss of friendship due to jealousy: “Call you me ‘fair’? That ‘fair’ again unsay. Demetrius loves your fair. O happy fair!” (1.1.184-185). At this point in the play, Demetrius is still doting over Hermia. Although this is the “way it should be” according to Egeus, sadly, Helena is blindly in love with Demetrius. Jealousy is unavoidable because Helena is envious of…

“I want to leave.” , said Arthur. “ We can not, we are bound to this land by oath.” , said Helena. The land Arthur and Helena worked on was owned by a serf named Edwin and his family for 50 years. The landscape was lush and filled with crops ripe for the harvest to come. Arthur did not like living under Edwin's rule because he was cruel to the peasants that worked on his land. Arthur had heard of a beautiful land that was only a day's walk, but his wife said it was a lie and that he should never…

Lysander and Demetrius falls deeply in love with Helena instead of Hermia. The male characters have no idea why they carry so much attachment for Helena but only the audience can really tell what the real reason is. There was a lot of miscommunication between the characters which kept evoking the situation. King Oberon and Puck was the cause of the partner mix-up and was basically in control of love. After seeing Demetrius run after Hermia and Helena run behind Demetrius, Oberon thought it was a…

for example, “and then the moon like a silver bow New-bent in heaven”. It is comparing the shining of the moon to silver. Metaphor- for example, “ call you me fair? That fair against unsay. Demetrius loves you fair! Your eyes are lodestars.”. Here Helena is comparing Hermia’s eyes to lode –stars without using…

in war and now discussing their wedding. From there we are introduced to Egeus, Hermia, Demetrius and Lysander. The different types of love in this group range from parental, true and even possessive love. Finally, there is the unrequited love that Helena has for Demetrius. These are just the first few that we encounter as Shakespeare weaves this magical tale. Regardless of the type of love there is always ups and downs, trials and errors to help a person grow and learn from each encounter they…

I am an eager actor looking for a break in my career and I am interested in auditioning for the role of Hermia in your upcoming production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare. While I may be young, I believe that my understanding of Hermia’s character and the conflicts she faces in this play make me well suited to play this part, as with this knowledge and my experience I would be able to effectively portray a generally strong but complex character like Hermia. In the…

quotes from Bottom prove our earlier suspicions, while other sayings from Helena, Lysander, and Hermia have hidden meanings that can be hard to pull out. Bottom’s use of malapropisms deems him uneducated, as seen in this quote, “Thisbe, the flowers of odious savors sweet,--” (III.i.30). The line is meant to be “odors savors sweet” and Quince corrected him in the following line. Even though Lysander is in love with Helena through the love juice, he infers that he still has some love for Hermia…