Importance Of Helena In Midsummer Night's Dream Essay

Helena is one of the most courageous characters in this entire story. Demetrius, the man that Helena loves is going into the woods searching for Hermia, the women he was supposed to marry. However, unluckily for him, she ran off with the man whom she loved, Lysander. When Demetrius ran away to find Hermia, Helena ran after him. What made this so dangerous is that Demetrius didn’t like Helena at all; in fact he rather loathed her. If Helena got into trouble with a wild beast or muggers, there was a good chance Demetrius wouldn’t help her. Even Demetrius said bad luck could come to her, alone with a man, out in the woods. In Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 227-228, “I’ll run from thee and hide me in the brakes, And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.” Demetrius says these words, basically saying that he will leave her to die at the hands of beast. Through these cruel words spoken by the one she loves, Helena continues on. Certainly, Helena’s courage is very admirable and is a very important reason why she is a favorite character of mine.…

Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream illustrates the wavering love between characters Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena. Shakespeare highlights that humans are primarily governed by individual emotion, rather than reason. This is very apparent in the passage, at the beginning of Act Five. Theseus states: “Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends” (5.1. 4-6). This passage is important because it stresses two…

In plays, characters can be used to convey messages that the author is trying to get across. A famous poet that conveys this message is William Shakespeare. In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, four lovers contend each other to show the importance of love. Particularly Lysander and Hermia, who want to marry each other. The quote “The course of true love never did run smooth” is a matter of fact, one of the most important quotes in the play, explain how love has many obstacles. In A Midsummer…

previous desires, feelings, or status? In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare took advantage of the theme of love, comparing the play within a play with affection and Athen’s law in the 1590’s. Although this play is meant to be a comedy, the theme of love runs a major line across the story. Love plays a separate role for each character, varying from type, circumstance, unpredictability, and unreality. Passion of love can make one blind, irrational, inconstant, and desperate,…

Shakespeare shows the importance of not taking everything at face values in his use of romantic relationships in his plays. Instead of making them straightforward romances, he adds enough characterization and plot instances that make you question just how normal these couples are. When taking a look at the couples in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and briefly at Othello, the complexity of the relationships shows that nothing is quite as it seems. The first couples we’re…

Two of the main themes discussed in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are love and magic, and one must reflect on how the two correlate between the main characters. Lysander, Hermia, Helen, Demetrius, and Titania are all greatly affected by the use of magic in this story. They seem to already struggle with developing relationships, and the tricky, unpredictable use of magic is of no help to them. In this essay, I will prove that magic undeniably has a negative effect on love and…

I: Introduction Hook: How does love relate to the world of law and reason? How is it that a supernatural power can make one fall in love with another regardless of their previous desires, feelings, or status? The love juice, a crucial symbol of love in A Midsummer Night's Dream, is used to describe the vision of fondness as an irrational, inexplicable, and frivolous force that ultimately overwhelms and transforms a person, whether it is desired or not. Inclusion of author and text: William…

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a play by William Shakespeare. This play has an array of different Characters. In Act I Scene I many characters are introduced such as: Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, Hermina, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena. Theseus is the duke of Athens and everyone looks up to him. He attitude is very authoritative and commanding. Hippolyta is queen of the amazons who happens to be betroth to Theseus. Hippolyta character is express the same characteristics as Theseus but uses it in…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream a romantic comedy is a full play written by the great William Shakespeare between 1594 and 1595 (Shakespeare 1265). Shakespeare had written this play to only be displayed on stage and only displayed on stage not read. The play is mostly considered romantic comedy and it is about the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, and dramatizes the idea that “the course of true love never did run smooth” (Shakespeare 1265). There are plentiful characters…

makes it a point to show gender traits throughout the play by having Theseus compare the moon to a greedy stepdame or widow spending a young man or her son's inheritance. There is also a great deal of gender tension between Hermia and her father Egeus when Egeus demands, “as she is mine, I may dispose of her(1.1.43). As previously said, men especially fathers had complete control over their daughter's marriage arrangement. It is at this point where the audience sees how females are treated as…