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    father 's care to their eligible husband, making them safe. However, the Hermia, from Midsummer Night 's Dream, and Miranda, from The Tempest, say they should have a say in who they wed. Both women defend themselves against their masculine counterparts and go after their real love regardless of obstacles set before them. Miranda, though presented as just a child, is not afraid to speak up on her own behalf. As well as Hermia who finds it as no challenge to go after what she sees best for…

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    Lysander’s love for hermia is true and real, i will provide facts and evidence to prove his love is as true and as real as it can be. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream By William Shakespeare. Lysander’s love for Hermia is real and true. What is true love? How can you tell if love is true? I will prove that Lysander truly loves Hermia and provide facts and quoted evidence. Love how can you tell if its true love, fake love, or just an acted. Love Is truly true if both people feel the same way. If…

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    Midsummer Night's Dream by William shakespeare, The characters Helena and Hermia are similar in there taste of men but they have different personalities. Helena is a female character who loves Demetrius, She is one of the four lovers, Lysander, Demetrius, and Hermia. Hermia is a female character who loves Lysander. Throughout the play, Helena are Hermia are good friends but jealousy tears they apart. In the beginning of the play, Hermia hits a rough patch when her father is saying that she has…

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    there are many times when Hermia is treated unfairly, especially by the people who are significant in her life. “My daughter Hermia...Hath consent to marry him...Lysander...Hath bewitched the bosom of my child...with cunning hast thou filched my daughter’s heart, turned her obedience...she will not...consent to marry Demetrius, I beg the ancient privilege of Athens: As she is mine, I may dispose of her, which shall be to this gentleman or to her death” (Shakespeare 9). Hermia is treated…

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    Hermia and Lysander faced many hardships to be together. “Upon that day either prepare to die for disobedience to your father’s will, or else to wed Demetrius, as he would, or on Diana’s altar to protest for aye austerity and single life” (I. i 85-90. 13). Egeus demanded that his daughter Hermia marry a man she does not love. He wanted Theseus to punish Hermia if she didn’t comply with the demands. She had to marry Demetrius or be sent off to the convent. “Why should not I then prosecute my…

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    young, beautiful women known as Hermia, Helena, and Titania. Each of these women have different qualities that make up who they are as a character. Hermia portrays herself as strong - willed and independent. Helena however, presents herself as feeble yet persistent. Titania depicts herself as mystical, majestic, and compassionate. Despite these women having different traits, they all share something in common. In the play, A Midsummer 's Night Dream, while Hermia, Helena, and Titania are very…

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    unsettling. But, that’s why Lysander and Hermia decided to run away from Athens - to avoid all the obstacles that Egeus would put in the way of the two’s marriage. In the midst of Hermia and Egeus’ conflict over marriage, Lysander tells Hermia that “the course of true love never did run smooth” (I.i.136). He says this to Hermia after her father, Egeus, threatens her livelihood if she decides not to marry Demetrius, who is Egeus’ personal choice for Hermia. Later on in the play, it is found that…

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    characters that are magical and normal. There are also characters that move the story/fantasy forward. The characters of Miranda and Hermia are strong, weak, normal and they move the story forward. In these two worlds there are agents of change and there are also captains that captain their own destinies, in some cases both. For instance, Miranda is the agent of change and Hermia is the captain of her destiny. Miranda is the daughter of Prospero in Shakespeare 's 'The Tempest '. "My dearest…

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    for what they want. Hermia is deeply in love with Lysander who cannot have Hermia’s fathers blessing. Helena is in love with Demetrius who is in love with Hermia and has been given Hermia’s fathers blessing to marry. Hermia and Helena are in the cross fire of their loves. So why does their friendship get lost and found again? Why not love who you want and not force it to occur? A Midsummer Night’s Dream shows just how quickly love and friendships between women can change. Hermia is set to be…

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    in the play?” The most important character would be Hermia or Egeus. The reason I chose Hermia is because the story kinda started with her and her dad Egeus arguing about who Hermia would marry. In this story a rule is that the father would pick who their daughter would marry. Egeus Hermia's father wanted her to marry Demetrius, but Hermia wanted to marry Lysander. Hermia didn't like Demetrius, but her dad wanted them to get married and if Hermia doesn't want to get married to Demetrius then…

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