Helena Essay

instructs Puck to try and remedy the Lysander and Helena love situation by removing the spell from Lysander’s eyes. Puck uses magic to create a fog, so they could not see each other, and helps Demetrius and Lysander fall asleep in the confusion of the thick fog.(Hacht,2007). While they are asleep on the ground Puck states,”on the ground, sleep and sound. I’ll apply to your eye, gentile lover remedy(4:1:48-52). Oberon did , so he could get Demetrius to love Helena and Lysander to love Hermia.…

. . it starts April 29th and ends May 1st” according to ww.Shakespeare-online.com. Over this period of time almost all of it Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, and Lysander were all constantly in a love circle (Shakespeare 3.2.260). The potions were being used on each person but they were waking up to the wrong person , so they were falling in love with the wrong person and were leaving their…

Making an Ass out of Laws Shakespeare is widely known as an English poet, playwright, and actor, and is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. On the other hand, students of today’s culture tend to think, why are Shakespearean writings, written some 400 years ago, still relevant in today’s English classes? Even though Shakespearean plays use archaic vocabulary that usually require the use of a thesaurus or an English teacher to understand, the fundamental ideas of A…

A Midsummer’s Nightmare Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream suggests that its relationships are happy ones, but this suggestion is complicated. In fact, the interplay between each of the couples indicates a nefarious quality present in all these relationships. This sinister quality can become even undeniably present in productions of this play. Brown writes that while scholars cannot consider any performance to be an authoritative adaptation, every performance brings interpretative…

The themes of jealousy, love and occur constantly in both plays. The themes create the driving power behind most of the action in the plays. In both A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Othello, the nature of love is communicated in two different ways. The first way is that love is a random, irrational, and blind power that individuals will risk everything to hold onto. The second interpretation is that love is an illusion; it is not everlasting or unstoppable. These two interpretations of the nature…

Titania queen of the fairies, was going to go to sleep while her fairy train sang her a lullaby to help her sleep. While she is sleeping Oberon King of the fairies comes and trickles the nectar of the herb in Titania’s eyelid. When she wakes up, at first sight she will dote whomever she may see whatever it may be. Hermia and Lysander have eloped and were walking through the woods, and they were looking for a place to sleep. Hermia had urged Lysander to lay farther from her in the cause of human…

Helena Obsessed over Demetrius emphasizes the impulse of love and its excesses. Even though she knows she is making a fool of herself by pursuing Demetrius, Helena cannot stop the chase. She reminds us that love is blind, even though she is as beautiful as Hermia, so there is no reason for Demetrius' sudden shift in affection. This point is further emphasized by the two men's love potion-persuasion attraction for her. Through these interactions, we find out that love is blind, illogical,…

In “A MidSummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare is a romantic play about love conflicts between to “couples”. Lysander is a young man who is deeply in love with Hermia but another man named Demetrius loves her as well. Helena, Hermia’s sister loves Demetrius. Hermia is decided that she wants to marry Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. They went threw a moments of confusion because a bad character named Puck applied a love potion on Lysander's eyes which made him fall in…

Control is a major theme in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare. Helena likes Demetrius but he likes Hermia. Hermia’s dad, Egeus, is making her marry Demetrius but she doesn’t want too, she likes Lysander.I believe that is possible to control other person’s actions because they use their power over someone and prays on their weakness. It’s supporting because Egeus has the right to control Hermia because Egeus is Hermia’s Father. Egeus controls Hermia by making her marry Demetrius…

A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare, is a story about love. But not one type of love, however many types of love, forced love, parental love, romantic love. Primary Parent love, and that’s starts with Egeus and Hermia. In the story Egeus seemed strict and forceful, his acts shows that he is bossy and demanding. Because Hermia is in love with Lysander he forbids them to marry, Since Egeus wants Demetrius to marry Hermia, and since her father wants what he thinks is best for her. He…