Helena Essay

In the most vicious exchange in the play, Lysander bluntly tells the lovesick Helena that he does not love her and that he is “sick” when he looks at her. He warns her that he will “do [her] mischief” in the woods—a far more menacing promise when we realize that mischief had a much stronger connotation in the period, meaning something closer to “harm” or “evil” than “naughtiness” Helena, however, is undeterred. She accepts the aggression directed at her and turns it into an argument…

The Faces of Love William Shakespeare’s “A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream” is, like many of his works, a play whose theme is centralized around love. In this particular play Shakespeare approaches love from several different angles or different types of love. There is a paternal love like that of Egeus and his daughter Hermia or even between Titania and the changeling child she cares so much for. The reader also experiences marital love as between Theseus and Hippolyta as well as the love of Oberon…

believes that because Hermia is his daughter, she should marry whomever he decides without a say in the matter. In addition, Shakespeare shows how two out of the three female characters of the play are defiant, while the other is submissive to men. Helena displays how much of a submissive person she is in the play when he wants Demetrius to use her as a dog just to get the slightest bit of…

Shakespeare uses figures of speech to give his beautiful poetry a boldness of imagery. Throughout the play, metaphors and similes masterfully serve to create a vision by comparing two things. Both are literary techniques used by Shakespeare to create hidden meanings and stories within his work. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a great example of how Shakespeare uses figurative language to discuss underlying meanings within the play. Shakespeare’s comparisons give the reader relatable emotion because…

her own. “I know not why power made bold, now how it may concern my modesty in such a presence here to plead my thought’ but i beseech your grace, that i may know the worst that may befall me in this case, if i refuse to wed Demetrious.” (1:1:61-66) Helena is not ugly but she is homely. This is because Demetrius finds her unattractive. Also, All of Athens finds her beautiful. She says, “Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrious thinks not so, He will not know what…

The most dynamic we can say it is Puck who appear as the most unchangeable character during the play, and as the example of the dynamic character is Demetrius and who changed, he was in love with Hermia and was rejecting Helena but at the end of the play he falls in love with Helena and even marry her. One of the dramatic irony of this play is when Shakespeare transform the head of Bottom to a donkey. He didn’t know what was going on with him. My sympathy for him is he wasn’t aware that what he…

humans’ world is out of balance. Their are four young Athenians (Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena) who have romantic problems. Both men love Hermia, but she loves only Lysander. Which her father disapproves. First narrator in the play. I believe there is not one at all.I 14 I believe there is a third narrator and he or she is omniscient because they describe what love is and you can see in Helenas heart how she really wanted somebody to love her. 15 With all my researching…

dirty ground. Therefore, Puck finally poured the love potion into Lysander’s eyelids which manipulated and controlled Lysander’s love. This, later on, in the play, created confusion between the lovers as Lysander saw Helena first when he woke up and therefore fell in love with Helena instead of…

Every human being faces a multitude of obstacles on a daily basis, though some have a far greater magnitude than others. The ability to adapt to new situations and overcome these challenges is necessary for survival, but some find difficulty in resolving recurring problems. If left unchecked, these unresolved, repeating situations can develop into fears, and eventually phobias. Throughout middle school, though I didn't realize it at the time, I was socially awkward. I had trouble speaking my…

Soon Puck is instructed by Oberon to fix the mess that he caused. Once again by using magic, Puck made everyone fall in love with the correct people–Lysander with Hermia and Demetrius with Helena. As you can see, magic is a supporting beam with regards to loves difficulty. We see, through the help of magic, how confusing, tricky, and complicated love can be, but also how beautiful it is. Love was the reason that the Athenians ran into the…