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    book Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare expresses how betraying someone affects their friendship. The book takes place in ancient greece, the main characters: Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius, are struggling to found out there personal relationships. Lysander and Demetrius love Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander, and Helena loves Demetrius. Helena and Hermia are supposed to be best friends, but their friend seems to waver throughout the story. If the friendship is strong true…

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    Night’s Dream By William Shakespeare. Lysander’s love for Hermia is real and true. What is true love? How can you tell if love is true? I will prove that Lysander truly loves Hermia and provide facts and quoted evidence. Love how can you tell if its true love, fake love, or just an acted. Love Is truly true if both people feel the same way. If Lysander loves Hermia he would stay her and not leave her. You need space in love, sometimes it’s not okay to be up in your Lovers business. If your in a…

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    Hermia, Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius, to the play that four friends are working on, which is about love. This is a play that shows us a lot of love, but at the same time, shows an abundant amount of comedy. But one of the questions that is raised in the play is, are Hermia and Lysander soul mates? In the play, there are four lovers named Hermia, Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius. Hermia’s father, Egeus, wants her to marry Demetrius, but Hermia doesn’t love him, she loves Lysander instead. At…

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    summarize the love part, Lysander loves Hermia, and Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius but, Demetrius used to love Helena but now loves Hermia. Egeus, Hermia's father, prefers Demetrius as a better man, and needed the help of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to enforce his wishes upon his daughter. According to Athenian law, Hermia is given four days to choose between Demetrius or a death sentence. Hermia, who is not willing to give up, chooses to escape with Lysander into the surrounding…

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    In the story, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, four young lovers experience hardships when it comes to their love. Hermia and Lysander are in love, but her father, Egeus, wants her to marry Demetrius. Demetrius is in love with Hermia, but despite his feelings, Helena is in love with him. Throughout the story, the lovers have to overcome many conflicts, such as a mishap with a love potion. All of the complications have one thing in common. They all represent that the quote, “The…

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    pairing that truly exhibits this trait. Lysander and Hermia have a love that is so true that they believe in each other even when they are told they can't be together. Lysander’s love for Hermia is true and real, i will prove his love is as true and as real as it can be. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. Lysander’s love for Hermia is real and true. What is true love? How can you tell if love is true? I will prove that…

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    dream revolving around her wanton desires, crying for Lysander “to pluck this crawling serpent from my breast,” (2.2.152). Hermia uses the word “pluck” to imply that though she is incapable of removing the serpent binding her on her breast, Lysander has the power to simply…

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    The True Love of Lysander In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, two points of view on love exist and clash regularly throughout the play. There are those who believe in forced love, and there are those who believe in true love. One of the four young lovers in this play, Lysander believes in true love. Readers are able to see this through his actions but also his words throughout. The very first scene in Act I is very revealing about Lysander’s character because he is…

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    others. As the famous quote “Love is not for the faint of heart.” states, love is not an easy thing. You must undergo heartache, failure and rejection in order to succeed with love. This is very prevalent in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the case of Lysander and Demetrius. To Demetrius, love is more about gaining power, as opposed to actually obtaining a life partner, and someone who truly cares about you, and will stay by your side the entire time that you reside on this Earth. He continuously…

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    For the relationship between Hermia and Lysander, the love that they shared was marred by the desire of Lysander father for her to be married to Demetrius. Almost all the relationship in the play, and especially this one between Hermia and Lysander, emphasize the conflict of law and love. The traditional privileges allowed Egeus to deliver her daughter to the man of his wishes. This scene brought…

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