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    Titania, Hermia and Thisby are three of the multiple couples shown in Shakespeare’s Midsummer’s Night Dream. Each couple is confronted with difficulties that causes the women in the relationships difficulties. The women deny a masculine figure in their life, and attempt to claim their right to their life and love. Their success varies and the outcomes of their love differ greatly. Hermia’s relationship with Lysander is the only one to come out through the ordeals and end together of these three…

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    William Shakespeare, symbols are used to show love. From the effects of the love potion causing mix-ups between lovers. Theseus and Hippolyta representing stability through the beginning to the end. Craftsmen play representing the struggles between Hermia and Lysander are finally over. By looking at the love potion, Theseus and Hippolyta, the craftsmen play, it is evident that symbols in the play highlight the main idea that love never runs smoothly. Love potion was a major symbol in the play,…

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    In “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare”, Hermia and Helena showed a great friendship. “ Lysander and I are running away. Once I am gone, Demetrius will surely return to you. Hermia hugs her friend. ” This quote from the play means Hermia wants her friend, Helena, to be happy. In “A Mid-Semester’s Daydream by Michael Ruscoe”, Dominic and Mia’s friendship turns into a jealous rage between…

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    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 Demetrius, but Hermia is in love with Lysander. That is why they ran away together. “Full of vexation come I, with complaint Against my child, my daughter Hermia. Stand…

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    shows it's not fully possible to control another's actions is when the persons who are trying to be controlled cares about something so much. In the case of Egeus and his daughter Hermia, as well as Oberon and Titania. Both Oberon and Egeus trying to take control of the ladies but aren't successful. Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius but she refuses because she…

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    branches leading in many directions but they all lead back to the same tree. We see people struggle to get what they all are after. In the beginning of the play two people are planning a marriage, we also see a conflict arise for young lovers. Hermia, one of our young lovers, is in love with a man, which her father despises and rather her marry a…

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    a parent that doesn’t accept. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s play was considered it to be an erotic and violent piece of literature because of the relationships shown throughout, including Titania and Oberon, Helena and Demetrius, and Hermia and Lysander. Every king wants to find his queen, but that is not always the case in literature. Some may say these lovers have a wonderful relationship, but the way Oberon treats Titania shows that it is anything but perfect. This king has…

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    In A MidSummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare proves that there is no limit to how far people will go to get what they want. Egeus, father of Hermia, will have her sent to her death or a nunnery if she does not marry the man he wants her to. Lysander and Hermia, the young lovers, are willing to run away and leave everything behind to be with each other and get married, because they are forbidden to in Athens. The king fairy, Oberon, has his wife, Titania, put under a spell to fall in love…

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    character Helena due to the faerie king Oberon’s magic flower juice. While Helena, who views Demetrius as her true love, get her “happy ending” once the two wed, Demetrius’ side of things is less than perfect. It was his wish to marry Helena’s friend Hermia, but he is denied the girl that was seemingly his “real” love because of the the magic.…

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    Hermia’s father wanted his daughter to marry Demetrius, a gentleman which he approved of, but Hermia fell in love with Lysander without his permission instead. Demetrius and Helena once loved one another, but later Demetrius fell in love with Hermia instead, leaving Helena fighting in her one-sided love. Love triangles made situations even more complicated. In the beginning, Demetrius and Lysander both loved Hermia while Helena loved Demetrius; under love potion, Demetrius and Lysander both…

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