Lysander

Throughout the Elizabethan era women were made to obey men. A perfect representation of this is in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream where the playwright William Shakespeare depicts the relationship roles between men and women in everyday society. As Lisa Walters writes, “In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Athens is a patriarchal domain ruled by Theseus, where the ‘father should be as a god’ and Amazons are conquered and married” (157). Shakespeare’s play demonstrates the unfair power and…

Oberon, the king of fairies is one of the main characters in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” He is a very interesting character as his personality has two sides. On one side he is a kind and generous person as he helped Helena get her love Demetrius, and he wishes good for the newlywed couples. On the other hand, he can be a very jealous and when it comes to his wife Titania, he can be very mischievous and demanding. Starting off with the malicious side of Oberon, Oberon can be very demanding and…

Dream, uses similes and metaphors through its characters to imply that love is preposterous due to its complexity and uncertainty. Shakespeare begins the play in act one, scene one where two of the four lovers converse on the complexity of love. Lysander, a young Athenian, discusses with Hermia, the woman he is in love with, the ways love can be flawed.. He states, “The course of true love never did go smooth.” (1.1.36) This proverb outlines an underlying theme in the overall perspective of love…

Forbidden love can not be suppressed, Evidence of this is all throughout Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream. A Midsummer Night Dream was written around 1595 or 1596, which was right after Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy and also included a forbidden love story. Romeo and Juliet were alluded to in the craftsmen’s play “Pyramus and Thisby” in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In A Midsummer Night's Dream Egeus, father of Hermia, believes that he controls the feelings or love of…

parental love is described as a parent who loves their child so much that they watch out for them and make sure that they do not deviate from the right path. It is portrayed when Egeus comes to complain to Thesues about his daughter, Hermia, who loves Lysander instead of the person Egeus chose for her which was Demetrius. A mad Egeus explains to Theseus, “Full of vexation…

Tasneem Adi Chandler Barton English II 12 February 2018 Dream Theme of Gender Gender tensions arise from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” due to the complicated romantic and familial relationships. At the beginning of the play, a young woman argues and fights her dad over the right to marry the one she loves. Although she was already partnered with her spouse by her father, and if she declines her father’s wish, then she will be exiled or killed. Shakespeare questions some stereotypes about gender…

Throughout his plays, Shakespeare uses figurative language to depict a greater message than what is simply read. Love is a reoccurring theme throughout Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream and although this play deals with romance, it is not a typical love story like others we are familiar with. Love is believed to be a passionate experience that brings happiness into the lives of those involved; however, Shakespeare writes a satire on this thought in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He…

Night’s Dream demonstrate affection in their own ways. Whether this be by fawning over the other, being overprotective, or by copying someone’s actions, they all show their love for the other character. Everyone has their own definition of love. Lysander probably knows it as a beautiful, romantic battle to win over his woman, while Eguas knows it as a difficult balance between his daughter’s happiness, and what he thinks is best for her. The events that they undergo shape their perspective on…

couples that will ultimately be unhappy due to longing for a person they can’t have or being trapped in a marriage to a person they don’t love or trust. Hermia and Lysander are perhaps the only couple in either of these plays that actually ends up one hundred percent happy. Technically they are under a spell to forget the night before and Lysander has been placed under the flower magic twice. Once to make him fall in love with Helena and the second time to restore his love to Hermia. However,…

The use of magic and supernatural power in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is evident throughout which helps to create love and fun and also mischief. In fact in this play, Shakespeare make it mysterious, comic, and romantic to grasp the audience and thus make it entertaining. Another thing to note is that imagination and many uses of supernatural powers in the story strength the play (Moffatt, 2004). Entertainment would be absent in this play if it were not for the use of supernatural…