Importance Of Helena In Midsummer Night's Dream Essay

quotes from Bottom prove our earlier suspicions, while other sayings from Helena, Lysander, and Hermia have hidden meanings that can be hard to pull out. Bottom’s use of malapropisms deems him uneducated, as seen in this quote, “Thisbe, the flowers of odious savors sweet,--” (III.i.30). The line is meant to be “odors savors sweet” and Quince corrected him in the following line. Even though Lysander is in love with Helena through the love juice, he infers that he still has some love for Hermia…

includes the element of magical forms like fairies, ghosts, and witches. In Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare added fairy magic. The fairy magic is use in the fairy world and the human world. Oberon, king of fairies, manipulated Titania then meddled into the human world. Humans are greatly affected by the magic. Demetrius and Lysander are place under love potions which generates complication. The females, Hermia and Helena, are place into confusion of the men’s decision. In reality, fairy…

In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck is Oberon’s confidant throughout the play. He is also known as Robin Goodfellow, an elf with supernatural abilities. He can transform others, shapeshift, and imitate voices. Based on the in-class discussion, he is not necessarily evil, if one assumes. In fact, he loves to play tricks on others at the expense of the consequences, which result in a commotion. One example is mistaking Lysander for Demetrius as he applies the love potion on Lysander’s…

In E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Sandman,” Nathanael falls in love with the object of his desires, the devastatingly gorgeous Olympia. Nathanael worships Olympia for her beauty, her muteness, and her lack of opinion. Eventually though, Nathanael realizes that Olympia is an automaton and has no substances because she is constructed merely to be the most perfect looking woman. Similarly, In Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides, The Lisbon sisters are worshipped solely for their bodies prohibiting them from…

The goblins in Goblin Market are meant to represent the archetype rake character who attempts to take the sisters’ virtue. Although described with animalistic traits, or the general label of ‘goblin’ identifying them as mythic creatures, the seducers of the poem are men. The use of describing them as various animals, highlights the seeming ‘animalistic’ quality of the human being or the male instinct to take a woman’s virginity (Rossetti Lines 69-77). However, similarly to the ‘Rake’ characters…

attitude, but ultimately can develop the plot of the story. His words and verbal power impact the 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…

The reason or theories behind Shakespeare focusing on topics of love, friendship and marriage in his sonnets “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s dream. (Goodreads). William Shakespeare’s works, especially his sonnets, namely sonnet 30, sonnet 55 and sonnet 116 included ideas of love, friendship and marriage. Topics of such, are important to Shakespeare because of what went on in…

The Juxtaposition of the Themes on Oppositions and Congruencies on A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen The play A Doll’s House was written by Henrik Ibsen in the 18th century. The dramatist wanted to emphasize on the characteristics of Nora and hence he used Mrs Linde, the foil of Nora to put a light on the differences between the two characters. The two characters in the play - Nora and Mrs Linde who are similar yet have distinct personalities. However, the biggest common ground between them is…

feelings and thus the only thing he can do is mock and laugh and joke with it. He continues being anti-feminist and dirty minded by using medlar as a metaphor for a woman's private parts. Another example is when Romeo and Mercutio were sharing their dreams “Oh, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you”(1.4.54). In this quote we can tell that Mercutio doesn’t have respect towards females. In the beginning he was encouraging Romeo to go talk to Juliet while he was supposed to marry another girl.…

The movement of Cleopatra's barge from the Cydnus River to Tarsus was a very prolific arrival that caught the attention of numerous individuals, especially Marc Antony. The two recounts depicted in Shakespeare's literature and the Cleopatra film offer slightly similar, but largely different stories of how the event occurred. Shakespeare used much more colorful language in order to depict it the story such as when he described Cleopatra's boat by saying "The poop was beaten gold, purple the…