A Midsummer Night's Dream

In the story, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, four young lovers experience hardships when it comes to their love. Hermia and Lysander are in love, but her father, Egeus, wants her to marry Demetrius. Demetrius is in love with Hermia, but despite his feelings, Helena is in love with him. Throughout the story, the lovers have to overcome many conflicts, such as a mishap with a love potion. All of the complications have one thing in common. They all represent that the quote, “The…

The word ‘love’ can be strange, beautiful, and can be difficult for people. There are many different types of love to experience. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, shows how love is experienced and demonstrates different types of love. There are many different types of love in this play, such as forced love, romantic love, and parental love. These types of loves will describe the play by William Shakespeare. There are many different types of love shown in William Shakespeare’s…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Jealousy In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, jealousy is presented in two different ways: through friendship and romance. A friendship that involves jealousy is Hermia and Helena’s. At the same time, jealousy, in regards to romance, is seen in Titania and Oberon’s relationship. Jealousy is a strong emotion that leads to desperation, insecurity, and conflict in their relationships through revengeful actions. The insecurity caused by…

With being the main focus of the story, there becomes responsibilities and pressure put on the protagonist (Protagonist- Examples and Definition of Protagonist). In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Puck and Hermia are the main characters. Puck meets most all of the “duties” that the protagonist in a story. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck is a very powerful creature. With Puck being an elf or goblin, he enjoys playing practical jokes on mortals; however, his name can also align with some sort of …

Is there such a thing as traditional gender? If not, then be a virgin forever or die. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare. The play starts out as a young adult female, Hermia, fighting her father, Egeus, for the right to choose who she marries, a duke, Theseus, is solidifying to marry a woman, Hippolyta, he recently conquered in battle, a woman who will never find love, Helena, and Titania and Oberon queen and king of the fairies they are at war as well. Then Demetrius…

In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of the female leads, Hermia, shows that she is no fool. She is bold, and always stayed true to her love Lysander. She shows that she is willing to fight for love. Hermia doesn't want to marry, the person who her father wanted her to marry, Demetrius since she is in love with another man, Lysander. She chooses to openly obey him and to elope with him, even though she knows it is risky. Hermia says, "My good Lysander! I swear to thee by…

Theme Analysis for A Midsummer Nightś dream Relationships often go through hardships. However, couples have to go through an emotional time to overcome it. In the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare shows the many conflicts that love can provide. The play is taken place in Athens were Shakespeare's characters experience many obstacles. The biggest problem the characters face is problems with their love lifes and being betrayed. Though it will be a difficult road, the wounds of…

Over the past few weeks we have been reading and watching Shakespeare's Midsummer Night’s Dream. Throughout the entire story love has been a huge part of the plot, but what is Shakespeare trying to say about love? Is it a carefree, amazing thing? Or is it complicated and annoying? In my opinion, Shakespeare has made it clear that love is very complicated. With all the drama and complications. At the beginning of the story Hermia and Lysander liked each other, Helena liked Demetrius,…

Shakespeare’s play a Midsummer Night’s Dream takes place in Athens. A woman named Hermia and a man named Lysander want to be married, but the girl’s father refuses and wants Hermia to marry the suitor he chose who was Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia then decide to run away to the woods that surround Athens, where they escape and get married. Along the way there are difficulties in their story. A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s theme is Love, but then it is not love, but the difficulty of love. These…

Folklore is an important theme in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, shown by the fairies who are integral to the plot. There are various types of fairies that appear throughout the play, some of which fit in with the typical portrayals of fairies found in traditional folklore. Oberon and Titania are often found within traditional folklore as they are the King and Queen of the Fairies, and are very much portrayed as being quite powerful and in control as they are human sized rather than being…