Helena Essay

The exposition of the story is that the character, Hermia, is forced to marry Demetrius, under the command of her father, Egeus. Hermia is not in love with Demetrius. She is in love with Lysander. Her good friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius. It is the law of the land that she must marry who her father says or she will killed. Hermia plans to take run away with Lysander, to his aunt's house, where the law does not exist there. They plan to meet up by the Fairies. The rising action of the…

in the idea of transition. Hippolyta and Theseus are not in a perfectly rational romantic relationship. Moreover, Hermia and Lysander’s story arc does not conform to the shift from irrationality to rationality, while Demetrius ends up settling for Helena while under the influence of magic. The sentiments offered by Puck while breaking the fourth wall alongside the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe further indicate that the transition towards rational love was not necessarily perfect. Ultimately, a…

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the hardship of love is the love triangle among the four young Athenians: Hermia loves Lysander, Lysander loves Hermia, Helena loves Demetrius, and Demetrius loves Hermia instead of Helena. The first major obstacle Hermia and Lysander face is Hermia’s father, Egeus, who wants her to marry Demetrius instead of Lysander (1.1.22-45). Duke Theseus is the ultimate law in Athens. Egeus says to Theseus, he has the right under Athenian Law to decide Hermia's fate. “I beg…

knight. Mischief- Puck is up to no good, he pours love potions on Titania and Lysander. The potion causes the people to fall in love with the first thing they see. Act 3: Love- Both Lysander and Demetrius are both in love with Helena because of the love potion. Anger- Helena is mad at Hermia because she is convinced this love from Lysander and Demetrius is…

and he still loves me. He does not interpret that I love Lysander. I wish Helena and Demetrius would be together. Why am I the one being fought over? I see my dad going to the duke to say something but what. The duke comes up to me and says “You have to marry Demetrius.” He said “But sir my love is for Lysander and I should be able to choose who I get to marry.” “You either marry him or die.” I genuinely wish that Helena and Demetrius would get back together they were dating but then he…

mistake, but the smaller problem worsens as he drops the potion on Demetrius’ eyelids. Demetrius wakes up lovesick to a frustrated Helena. Puck adds more to the conflict as he leads Hermia into the same area as Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena. The one large problem results in the couples fighting; one between Lysander and Demetrius, while other being Hermia and Helena. Furthermore, his stunts often show his playful, yet indifferent…

"adoration triangle" with Hermia at the peak and Helena being practically non-existent. Both men worshipped Hermia, asking for her acknowledgement, and attempting to pick up her dad's trust. As the comic drama advances, the triangle moves mysteriously in an unexpected way. Lysander, who in one moment is frantically infatuated with Hermia, all of a sudden stirs to get himself fixated on Helena. Demetrius likewise began to look all starry eyed at Helena, encountering an indistinguishable craving…

Nothing, and briefly at Othello, the complexity of the relationships shows that nothing is quite as it seems. The first couples we’re going to be looking into are those from A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Titania and Oberon, Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius. Titania and Oberon, the queen and king of the fey, possess rather mischievous personalities that compliment the other well…

group chose to depict the scene where Hermia finds her friends in the woods. She has found Lysander, her love, now in love with Helena because of a love potion Puck mistakenly puts on him. She also finds Demetrius, who was courting her and seemed to hate Helena but is now in love with Helena due to the efforts Oberon put into fixing Puck's mistake. And we also find Helena who thinks this is all a joke and that everybody is just trying to mess with her. We chose this scene because it had enough…

play is a story of dreams and magic versus the harsh reality of love and real life. It follows, primarily, a few different groups of characters: there are four young lovers (Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, and Lysander) who form a convoluted sort of love-quadrilateral, if you will (initially, Hermia and Lysander are in love while Helena loves Demetrius but Demetrius loves Hermia); there is a company of amateur and unprofessional actors, most importantly a weaver named Nick Bottom,…