Helena Essay

Ashwin Thomas Michael Currie ENG 3UY 22 April 2017 Tussle for Supremacy Throughout the course of human history, there have been numerous occasions where humans have experienced an increasing desire to attain power and authority over others. It could be to assert dominance and control over another, to manipulate situations in order to maximize individual pleasure, or to display a higher status in the society. However, accomplishing this task can be quite grueling and when the need for power…

In life people will be treated unfairly whether they want to be or not, but how the treatment affects you is how you decide to receive it. Everyone takes things in many different ways. Some people don’t let it affect them and let it roll off their back, others may dwell on what was said, and let it affect them in some aspects of their life, or in every aspect of their life. In the book A Midsummer Night’s Dream there are many times when Hermia is treated unfairly, especially by the people who…

flower into her eye to reverse the spell. Robin is also ordered to change Bottom’s head back to its usual form. Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus find the sleeping young Athenians. Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius wake up, and Lysander’s feelings for Hermia are back. Furthermore, Demetrius still loves Helena. Theseus overrules Egeus and plans to have both couples married alongside he and Hippolyta. Bottom, too, awakes, his head back to normal. He quickly thinks up a brilliant song to sing to…

familial and romantic relationships. In comparison, the 2005 BBC film adaptation by Peter Bowker expresses dissimilar treatment towards women and discontinues to demonstrate patriarchal relationships, specifically through the characters, Hippolyta and Helena. Comparing the way women were treated in the Shakespeare and Bowker’s adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it is very different from…

Reconciliation is the opposite because reconciliation is the settling of confusion. An example of reconciliation in the story is when Oberon uses a spell and cures Titania of her love to Bottom. Oberon says: “But first I will release the fairy queen. Be as thou wast wont to be; See as thou wast wont to see: Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower Hath such force and blessed power. Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen.” This is an example of reconciliation because Oberon is fixing the confusion…

Throughout the analysis of the play, we thought of some philosophies that we can relate to the play. The philosophies that we can relate to this play are Romanticism, humanism and paroxysm. In humanism, it is about freedom to choose or free will and the power to solve their problems. We can relate humanism to the part where Lysander and Hermia decided that they will run away and live together peacefully. It is shown in this part that the couple fought for their love and they have shown their…

Relationships between men and women in Elizabethan times were very different than they are now. In A MIdsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare puts women into serious dilemmas in order to reinforce the realities of their place in society. In the comedy, women are given extremely limited choices, manipulated and objectified all by men more dominant than they are. Women in A Midsummer Night’s Dream are often given very limited or no choices in their own issues and even when they are given options…

In Hamlet, Shakespeare only includes two women in the play, they are both close to the main character, Hamlet, who sees both in two completely different ways and therefore treats them differently too, one with cynical love and the other with a regretful hatred. In Hamlet, Hamlet pretends to be crazy because he is plotting against his murderer of an uncle, Claudius, who killed his natural father and married his mother. From the statement of old King Hamlet, about his brother Claudius poisoning…

In-turn Lysander fall for Helena because she is the first person he see in the morning. But Robin fixes his mistake by using the potion on Demetrius making both men mading in love with the same women, Helena.” Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”.-Oberon “What, jealous Oberon? Fairies, skip hence.I have forsworn his bed and company”-Titania “Tarry, rash wanton: am not…

disappears and she becomes inconsequential. The characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream experience this same challenge. Puck’s love potion leads the four young Athenians (Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena) astray. Lysander and Demetrius both desire Hermia, who only has eyes for Demetrius. Helena is in love with Demetrius, who rebuffs her…