Hippolyta

discontinues to demonstrate patriarchal relationships, specifically through the characters, Hippolyta and Helena. Comparing the way women were treated in the Shakespeare and Bowker’s adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it is very different from…

targets, such as Hippolyta and Hermia. At the beginning of the play, i encounter the first word “fair” that comes out from Theseus, the Duke of Athens to his fiancee, Hippolyta. Based on Act 1 Scene 1, Theseus says, “Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour/ Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in/ Another moon;” (1.1.1-3). In the context, Theseus is complaining about how much longer time he has to wait for his wedding with Hippolyta. From there, the word “fair” suggests Hippolyta a majestic being…

novel the moon is used as metaphor to create love and chaos. Characters continue to describe the moon through their relationships and their needs. With characters such as Theseus venting about how he has to wait to be with Hippolyta expresses that the day is the happiness with Hippolyta, but the moon is the darkness, expressing his sexual desire. Also, characters such as Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius we continue to see this theme of chaos and love through a conflict with magic within the…

Theseus’ love was to Hippolyta. Finally, romantic love was how Hermia felt about Lysander, Hermia was willing to disobey the Athens law in which her father told her to marry Demetrius, be killed or live a single lifestyle (Bevington, 2014). Different feelings of love bring many thoughts to a person and their actions depend on how they feel not what they think. Helena was in a quandary, she loved Demetrius, but…

Night’s Dream by 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…

them, which shows how love can be mocked but also celebrated. In A Midsummer Night 's Dream, by William Shakespeare, the couples, Hippolyta and Theseus, Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius, are both mocked and celebrated for their love. Hippolyta and Theseus are the more mature couple, who is on the brink of marriage, in this story. Theseus had conquered Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons, in a war and…

not giving him the Indian boy, and Hippolyta breaks it by being the Queen of the Amazons. Breaking of the chain is a threat to rulers since their status is given…

Gender can manifest itself in many ways in the theatre. In many of Shakespeare’s plays gender is shown through marriage or love and often not the love people think is acceptable or that ends the way the characters would like. The plays Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare both end with the main characters paired off into couples. In these relationships Shakespeare has created couples that will ultimately be unhappy due to longing for a person they can’t have…

play so much that analyzing these techniques, can further one’s understanding of the complete play itself. Specifically, in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the introduction passage between Theseus the Duke of Athens and his future wife, Hippolyta the Queen of the Amazons, while talking about the upcoming day of their wedding, clearly contains similes…

they are submerged in. Hippolyta, Hermia, Helena and Titania all in their own individual and unique ways either challenge the enforced social system of patriarchy or succumb to its demands and consequently, submit themselves as a subordinate role as a female. Unsurprisingly, Hermia and Helena—the two young heroines of the play—are fuelled by the mistreatment of their male superiors and fight to challenge the society they find themselves ensnared within. All the while Hippolyta and Titania at…