Lysander

This is a quote said by Lysander in the play Midsummer Nights Dream. In this quote, Lysander is describing how love is not always easy. There will be road bumps and difficulties to lead to happiness. In the play, there are many situations where love does not run smooth. There are three couples that are good examples. The couples being Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena, and Titania and Oberon. The first couple that demonstrates this quote are Lysander and Hermia. Lysander and Hermia love…

amazons. The other four stories are: the dispute between Hermia and Egeus; the play, put together by laborers for Theseus’s wedding; the dispute between Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of the fairies, over a changeling; and finally the story of Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena. At the end of the story, Shakespeare manages to tie them all together for a comical and happy ending. The frame story consists of the marriage between Theseus and Hippolyta. Theseus is the Duke of Athens.…

Demetrius. Ergeus is Hermia's father and wants her to marry Demetrius. Hermia is in love with Lysander and refuses to marry the man her father has picked out for her. Ergeus wants Theseus to uphold the Athenian law that says a daughter can be executed for refusing an arranged marriage. Ergeus thinks he can scare Hermia into marrying Demetrius. The rising action or actions in this story are when Lysander and Hermia decide to meet in the woods in the middle of the night and run away. Hermia…

When they are all in the woods, the characters become interchangeable all over again. In addition, love now becomes an illusion because magic interferes. When Hermia and Lysander run off to the woods, Demetrius and Helena follow them to try and stop the madness. The madness actually starts to increase. The drama and plot in the woods emphasis how the characters continue to be interchangeable throughout the play. The drama…

One of those twists is when Puck, the mischievous fairy, makes Lysander falls in love with Helena using magic. This causes problems because one minute he is calling Hermia fair in a way that proves his true love, and then in the next minute he is calling Helena fair and saying she is his true love. Both Helena and Hermia…

about several parties, taking place just outside of the city of Athens. One of the main parties include Oberon the Fairy King, Titania (his wife), and a puck called Robin Goodfellow. Another group of characters incorporates the lovers Hermia and Lysander, and another man and woman named Demetrius and Helena. The third party, composed of several actors named Bottom, Flute, and Snug, plan to perform the play Pyramus and Thisbe at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Oberon’s actions propel…

love knot, where Hermia who is in love with Lysander is being forced to wed Demetrius the man her best friend Helena is in love with. In my personal viewpoint, I think that all individuals should be influenced in…

The women in William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream are traditional women in society that act in rebellious ways. Hermia, Helena, and Titania are all disobedient and rebellious women in the play. At the time women were treated as property. The father or husband would make decisions for his wife or daughter, and the woman had no say and were to respect the choice that was made for them. However Hermia, Titania, and Helena do not follow the orders given to them. Hermia rejects…

shows that nothing is quite as it seems. The first couples we’re going to be looking into are those from A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Titania and Oberon, Hermia and Lysander, and Helena and Demetrius. Titania and Oberon, the queen and king of the fey, possess rather mischievous personalities that compliment the other well…

develop the main plots in a chaotic way” (Bhattacharjee). Specifically in Act 3 Scene 2, Puck interferes with the fight between Demetrius and Lysander, making sure they do not injure each other. To secure their safety, he deceives them by disguising his voice as Lysander’s to lure Demetrius away, and he disguises his voice as Demetrius’ to lure Lysander…