Helena

through his characters, Hermia and Lysander, Shakespeare demonstrates how discordant love is. The two lovers’ love is broken overnight, but by dawn they have each other’s heart once more. For instance, as Demetrius wakes, he goes as far to say, “O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, [and] divine,” (3.2.139). The humor of this is that…

to fall in love with a certain someone. The most important characters in this romance fantasy are; Lysander a young man of Athens, in love with Hermia, Demetrius a young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia and ultimately in love with Helena, Helena a young woman of Athens,…

to marry a man named Demetrius, but Hermia is in love with Lysander, her lover. Thus beginning the rising action, the couple plan to escape the arranged marriage, she and Lysander elope into the woods. Demetrius follows them, and he is pursued by Helena, who nurses an unrequited love for him and is Hermia's friend. Then meanwhile in the woods, the fairy queen, Titania and her husband, Oberon, are have a quarrel over a page boy. Oberon has a plans to make his wife agree to hand the boy by making…

However, in Act II, Scene 2, different events played out when they arrived in the woods. When the couple went to sleep, Robin put a magical flower juice in Lysander’s eyes that caused him to fall in love with the first person he saw. Unfortunately, Helena stumbled across Lysander’s body and thought he was dead. She shook him to wake up, and because of the juice he immediately fell in love…

An example of this is when Helena states, “these vows are Hermia’s; will you give her o’er / weigh oath with oath and you will nothing weigh” (Shakespeare, 3.2.130-131). Previously, Lysander was in love with Hermia but he is no longer due to a love potion. Helena responds to his advances with shock. This adds to the conflict of the play because it dramatizes the love triangle between Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius. Helena knows Lysander is committed to Hermia which is why…

Williams Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream presents situations and perfect examples of how difficult and wonderful the experiences of love can be. The play shows how love can affect emotions, decisions, and behavior, depending on the type of love that is expressed. Brilliantly displayed, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, Titania, Egeus, and Bottom show examples of passionate, magical, and parental love through changing emotions and behavior throughout the play. The first type of love…

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…

strong bond that lasts forever. You guys do not have to hang out every night, or even talk everyday for that matter. In a midsummer night’s dream, Friendship love is used between helena and hermia. They never had to have the love potion put on them because they loved each other. “Though she be little, she is fierce.”(Helena) The one love i hate the most is forced. You never can really force someone to love you. They will love who they want. In the novel, Hermia is forced by her dad to love…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Theme of Love’s Difficulty Shakespeare in the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ looks at how the characters fell in love with other characters who appeared to be beautiful to them. One thing that stood out about the kind of love that the characters shared in the play were that it faced a lot of challenges. The idea of Shakespeare in this context was that people who at one point appear to fall involve in their lives might later seem to be repellent and unattractive. The…

he is using the potion to pair people up. In fact, the first instance in which Oberon rhymes is when he uses rhyme to tell Puck of his plan to make Titania fall in love with a beast. In continuation, he also uses rhyme when he couples Demetrius and Helena as well as when he reverses Puck’s mistake. When he reverses the spell on Lysander, Lysander goes back to loving Hermia. Finally, the last time Oberon uses rhyme is when he releases Titania from the spell after getting the changeling boy.…