Importance Of Helena In Midsummer Night's Dream Essay

In the story A Midsummer Night’s dream, there are many characters. The story has a general serious mood but Puck lightens the mood, pulls pranks, and makes a lot of mistakes. To be around Puck is a recipe for disaster. Puck is a very important character in the story A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is characterized as being mischievous, clumsy, and loyal. Puck is mischievous in many ways. The first example of Puck being mischievous is when he changes Bottom’s head into a head of an ass: “An ass's…

In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Characters are put to the test and exposed for their true nature. Throughout the play one is aware of Helena’s true nature, a desperate woman in the need of attention from the object of her affection, Demetrius. Consistently, Helena betrays the people she loves, while she masks up her flaws and her timidities, she shows all of this while disputing with Helena. She show’s a need for attention because she has insecurities filling her up. She is filled…

The word ‘love’ can be strange, beautiful, and can be difficult for people. There are many different types of love to experience. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, shows how love is experienced and demonstrates different types of love. There are many different types of love in this play, such as forced love, romantic love, and parental love. These types of loves will describe the play by William Shakespeare. There are many different types of love shown in William Shakespeare’s…

The play A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare was a wild ride from start from to finish. Everything that happened in this play was very entertaining; from the conflicted love triangle, the performance of a play within a play, to the unique characters within the story. The most intriguing relationship was between the characters, Puck and Bottom, as there were similarities and contrast between the two of them. For one, They are both comical characters, as well as the comic…

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is still relevant, for it contains allusions, imagery, and similes to which audiences can still relate today. Shakespeare uses those three literary devices to help the reader understand the play clearly. In the play, Shakespeare uses allusions to give the reader another way to look at what is happening in his play. Egeus tells Theseus “But this other man has cast a spell over my child’s heart” (page 5). This sentence is an allusion of a…

A Midsummer Nights Dream Essay The course of true love never did run smoothly. One of the important themes in the play is love. Shakespeare explores three main elements in love. He writes about forced love, falling in love for the wrong reasons and falling inline with the first person they see. A key theme in the play is love. People can be made to fall in love with the first person they see when a magic love juice that is found in a sunflower is applied to their eyes, this is trying to show…

Commonly in a comedic play it is said that “all’s well that ends well” in the case of the resolution of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” this is certainly true, the disorder and manipulation caused predominately by is resolved through both Oberon’s guiding wisdom and Puck’s manipulation. There are many happy endings; some of them are more convincing than others, for example Lysander and Hermia’s relationship, would be seen by all audiences as plausible while Demetrius and Helena’s relationship is…

In the stories of 'Midsummer Nights Dream ' and 'The Tempest ' there are characters that are strong and weak. There are 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…

influences that constantly surrounding us. The influence of others can impact our choices and perspectives in different ways. There are good and bad influences around us and it is our choice of which one we want to take. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer 's Night Dream, Hermia and Theseus consider the perspectives of others, which influences their choices and perspectives on life. However, they still get to decide what they want to do. In my own experience, just like Hermia and Theseus, I…

have confidence in him and follow him and to watch over them as if they are apart of his own family and protect them through selfless actions at any cost, as the citizens are the main priority. However, in Williams Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, the king of fairies Oberon is a man who desires power and control but also struggles with the choice of right and wrong. This is explored through his urge to control and manipulate the people around him, his acts of selfishness and his…