Helena Essay

to create an intended act of deception, but mistaken identities are accidentally caused by a love potion. The first case of mistaken identity happens when Oberon orders Puck to anoint Demetrius’ eyes with a love potion so he will fall in love with Helena. He also tells Puck that he will recognize him “[b]y the Athenian garments he hath on” (Shakespeare 2.1.251). However, the audience understands that two men wearing Athenian clothing wandering in the forest. Instead of pouring the solution into…

place in Athens, where the duke will have his wedding in four days. Most of the play, however, takes place in the forest where two lovers named Hermia and Lysander run to elope, but they followed by Demetrius, who wants to win the heart of Hermia, and Helena, who wants to win the heart of Demetrius by helping him find Hermia. In the same forest, there is a conflict between Oberon and Titania, who roles are the king and queen of the fairies. They are funding over the human boy that is currently…

have a say to who or what they want when a man gets involved especially her father or someone they have to respect and look up to. Another situation that is against traditional gender roles is Helena and Demetrius, Helena loves Demetrius and they used to be engaged but Demetrius fell for Hermia and now Helena is chasing Demetrius this is against gender roles because…

awakes to see Helena and loves her. When Hermia awakes she is confused and blames Demetrius into killing her sweet love. This is like kids accusing others even if they don't know the real truth. The play within a play showed that couples must always respect each other and the time that they have together because there could be a tragic ending but they just have to work through that even though bad things can happen. The actors in the inner play of the book sort of depicted Hermia, Helena,…

Shakespeare, like any other writer, has a few key themes that he prefers to incorporate within many of his literary works. One play that he has weaved the theme of love in, is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Though this story is a bit light hearted than most of Shakespeare’s works, it still has a problematic couple that love each other passionately. Something that I have noticed about Shakespeare is that he enjoys creating characters that are imperfect by making them a captive to human emotion, in…

How does love interfere with relationships? Anyone who has loved would know the correct answer to this question. Love in fact does interfere with relationships. In the play A Midsummer Night's Dream there are many forms of love, which can be easily connected to the conflicts between the characters. Forms of love such as parental love, forced love, romantic love, and a friends love can be recognized in Shakespeare's theatrical work. In the play Hermia loves Lysander which affects her relationship…

Feelings are hard to deal with in life Love has many different types of feelings. Shakespeare displayed different love stories in each of the four plots throughout “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. As Helena loved a man that loved a different woman, this type of love is hard for a person to manage their feelings. Forced love was how King Theseus’ love was to Hippolyta. Finally, romantic love was how Hermia felt about Lysander, Hermia was willing to disobey the Athens law in which her father told…

conflict of this play stems from relationships, Shakespeare shows the real tragedy is not being loved. Through the three main female characters (Helena, Hermia, and Titania), Shakespeare engages the notion of beauty and fairness to demonstrate the subjectiveness of love. Shakespeare uses Helena’s situation to demonstrate the subjectiveness of love. Helena, a lovesick young woman, is desperately in love with Demetrius. At the beginning of the play, she is involved in a love triangle between…

Shakespeare, one of the greatest and most known poets of all time. Known worldwide and studied by many. Shakespeare had a talent in making plays that captivated important people and the commonwealth during his time of existence. While Shakespeare has long passed away, his writings have survived the age of time making it through generations of scholars, students, graduates and even writers in search of writing knowledge. Shakespeare made many plays, but not all were the same. Two interesting and…

example in A Midsummer’s Night Dream he accidentally puts love juice on Lysander’s eyes when Oberon told him to put it on Demetrius’ eyes. When he and Oberon are watching the chaos that it creates among the lovers, Puck says “Captain of our fairy band,/ Helena is here at hand,/ And the youth, mistook by me,/ Pleading for a lovers fee./ Shall we their fond pageant see?/ Lord, what fools these mortals be!.” (Shakespeare 3.2.112-117). Puck denies that it’s his fault that the lovers are turning on…