Helena Essay

“Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a story of the many forms and complications of love. We see examples in the play, many types of love from mutual love, forbidden love, unrequited love as well as others. No matter the form, though, one point remains consistent love, as complicated as it is always worth it. What is love Love is as vague as it is complex. Much like God, we cannot physically sense love, yet we believe it to be real and we believe it to be what gives our lives meaning. However, despite…

that she always wanted him “I´ve always wanted you-always” (John Osborne. Look Back in Anger: 92); and that can be read as treason, as soon as she loves the husband of her old friend Alison. By the end of the act, when Alison decides to return home, Helena recognizes her mistake of having taken her friend´s place, and chooses to go, leaving things as they were before her appearance. “[…] I´m going downstairs to pack my things. If I hurry, I shall just catch 7.15 to London” (John Osborne. Look…

they are under a spell to forget the night before and Lysander has been placed under the flower magic twice. Once to make him fall in love with Helena and the second time to restore his love to Hermia. However, they are the couple that was completely in love from the beginning of the play, so much so that they planned to run away together. Unlike Helena and Demetrius who only ended up in the forrest because they were attempting to stop them. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is riddled with longing for…

in the story was to receive Lysander and Demetrius’s love. This draws them both to the magical forest for the climax of the story to occur. The role Hermia played throughout the story was the kind, lover, and lovee while being best friends with Helena. She was introduced to initiate the rising action of the story. Without…

concocted by Oberon causes Lysander to fall in love with Helena. As a result, Lysander hates Hermia. He refers to her as “loathed med’cine… hated potion” and tells her he never wished to see her again after he left. Lysander has rescinded any affections he once had for Hermia and given his heart to Helena . The relationship between Lysander and Hermia has transformed into the dangerous love-hate relationship shared by Demetrius and Helena. Hermia still holds Lysander at the center of her heart,…

Night’s Dream The female characters in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream and John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi mirror each other. The Duchess and Hermia show courage and determination when standing up to their oppressors. Cariola and Helena, when confronted with authority, submit to it. Regardless of the strength of the women, however, genre determines their fate -- those in the comedy live happily ever after, whereas, those in the tragedy do not live at all. The Duchess rarely…

The Curse of Narrows is a nonfiction novel that is based on historical event that happened on December 6, 1917. The novel describes the experiences of the survivors that lived through the tragedy that occurred due to the collision of Mont Blanc and Imo. The Mont Blanc was a ship that was heading to Europe from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mac Donald blamed the Imo crew for the accident. The reason she blamed them is because they were in the wrong lane. they were in the lane that traversed the Narrows,…

city of Athens. One of the main parties include Oberon the Fairy King, Titania (his wife), and a puck called Robin Goodfellow. Another group of characters incorporates the lovers Hermia and Lysander, and another man and woman named Demetrius and Helena. The third party, composed of several actors named Bottom, Flute, and Snug, plan to perform the play Pyramus and Thisbe at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Oberon’s actions propel the plot forward when he orders Robin to put the juice of…

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” by Shakespeare also relates to it as well. The play is about 5 characters going off on an adventure that’s so crazy that when they wake up, they each think it’s a dream. These 5 character’s names are Lysander, Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, and Bottom. The first four know each other, but Bottom is separate from them, with completely different things happening. He’s supposed to be the star of a play that was to be in front of Theseus and Hippolyta, who are scheduled to…

which classify them as having a Manic love style. Helena describes her own obsessive, self-harming, behavior by stating “But herein mean I to enrich my pain, / To have his sight thither and back again” (1.1.10). She decides on, and acts out, the idea that she will sabotage her childhood friends elopement just to have Demetrius 's attention for a short time. While the first description of Demetrius is that he had “Made love to Nedar’s daughter, Helena, / And won her soul. And she, sweet lady,…