Helena Bonham Carter

Dream, William Shakespeare expresses how betraying someone affects their friendship. The book takes place in ancient greece, the main characters: Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius, are struggling to found out there personal relationships. Lysander and Demetrius love Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander, and Helena loves Demetrius. Helena and Hermia are supposed to be best friends, but their friend seems to waver throughout the story. If the friendship is strong true friends wouldn't betray each…

All of the characters in Act 1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream demonstrate affection in their own ways. Whether this be by fawning over the other, being overprotective, or by copying someone’s actions, they all show their love for the other character. Everyone has their own definition of love. Lysander probably knows it as a beautiful, romantic battle to win over his woman, while Eguas knows it as a difficult balance between his daughter’s happiness, and what he thinks is best for her. The…

“But, O, methinks how slow this old moon wanes! She lingers me desires like to a stepdame or a dowager long withering out a young man’s revenue (act 1, scene 1).” To add to this quote from A Midsummer’s Night Dream this essay will be introducing quotes and reasoning as to why “the course of true love never runs smoothly” said by Lysander from the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Love cannot run smoothly in many different ways. Love can be interrupted by others getting in the way, having to fight…

her affection, Demetrius. Consistently, Helena betrays the people she loves, while she masks up her flaws and her timidities, she shows all of this while disputing with Helena. She show’s a need for attention because she has insecurities filling her up. She is filled with jealousy since she believes she is not as attractive as Helena. She follows Demetrius in her heart and through the forest, she fanaticizes him as more of an idol than anything else. Helena is in desperate need of his approval…

mistake, but the smaller problem worsens as he drops the potion on Demetrius’ eyelids. Demetrius wakes up lovesick to a frustrated Helena. Puck adds more to the conflict as he leads Hermia into the same area as Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena. The one large problem results in the couples fighting; one between Lysander and Demetrius, while other being Hermia and Helena. Furthermore, his stunts often show his playful, yet indifferent…

All Summer in a Day: Theme Essay Have you ever been jealous of someone else's experiences and life? Everyone has to be jealous of something; Jealousy is not a good thing, as you should be happy that something good happened to someone else, otherwise that is just selfish, greedy and egotistical. This short story ‘All Summer in a day’ is a very good example of jealousy and selfishness, as a young girl, who is different, makes her classmates jealous involuntarily, and that leads to them bullying…

Dreams typically reveal a person’s innermost desires in life that they don’t act upon in reality. In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare, Hermia’s dream conveys her unconscious desire yearning for Lysander’s true love reveals the play’s argument that a person’s vulnerabilities and most impulsive desire lie where one is not influenced by the consciousness and influence of others. Based on the psychology of the details Hermia reveals about her dream revolving around…

There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee. And to that place the sharp Athenian law, cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then, steal forth thy father’s house tomorrow night. And in the wood, a league without the town - where I did meet thee once with Helena to do observance to a mom of May - there will I stay for thee.” (III.I.158-170). This shows that Lysander does really truly love Hermia. He is doing whatever it takes to stay with Hermia always, and not let Demetrius come and ruin it by Hermia…

Correspondingly, the love juice’s effect on Titania addresses the artificialness of young love. Titania, controlled by the juice, became madly in love with Bottom, a man whose head was turned into a literal ass. Shakespeare continues to add to the idea of untrue love through Titania’s words when she says to Bottom “thou art as wise as thou art beautiful…and I do love thee” (3.1.131,138). This further illustrates how this love is only that of appearances and not of deep and meaningful emotion. A…

Being clever and proud of oneself is healthy, but an egotistic nature and slyness is not. In William Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck, a fairy and servant of Oberon, exhibits these traits. He is self-centered and loves to make a joke out of others by fooling them. Through Puck’s speech and actions, he can be characterized as mischievous and arrogant. Puck is displayed as mischievous through his actions done on other characters. When Puck is communicating with an unnamed fairy, the…