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    In “A MidSummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare is a romantic play about love conflicts between to “couples”. Lysander is a young man who is deeply in love with Hermia but another man named Demetrius loves her as well. Helena, Hermia’s sister loves Demetrius. Hermia is decided that she wants to marry Lysander but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. They went threw a moments of confusion because a bad character named Puck applied a love potion on Lysander's eyes which made him fall in…

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    They talk about the four day festival of Theseus 's and Hippolyta 's wedding. Theseus orders Philostrate to arrange last minute arrangements of the wedding festival. The rising action is after Philostrate leaves and Hermia, Demetrius, Egeus, and Lysander enter. Egeus has come with the complaint that his daughter has refused to marry the man he has chosen for her, Demetrius. He asks Theseus sentence Hermia to death (this a penalty that used, but barely, against daughters that do not follow their…

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    Athens; Hermia, Egeus, Helena, Demetrius, and Lysander and a fairy king, Oberon, and his wife alone with the mischievous Puck. Hermia was the daughter of Egeus, who favored a marriage between Hermia and Demetrius. However, Hermia loved Lysander and would not marry Demetrius. When Egeus heard this he threated to use the law of Athens upon her, which was if a daughter did not marry a man of her father’s choice she would be killed. When Hermia and Lysander ran away to the forest away from the…

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    Hermia loves Lysander, Lysander loves Hermia, Demetrius loves Hermia, Helena loves Demetrius, no one loves Helena, and Egeus wishes to have his daughter killed if she continues to disobey his order of marry Demetrius. Conflicts arises when more when Titania and Oberon squabble with each other ,and Lysander and Hermia run off together and get lost in the woods, and Demetrius and Helena follow them. Lysander attempts to reassure Hermia of their fate: “Ay me, for…

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    In A MidSummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare proves that there is no limit to how far people will go to get what they want. Egeus, father of Hermia, will have her sent to her death or a nunnery if she does not marry the man he wants her to. Lysander and Hermia, the young lovers, are willing to run away and leave everything behind to be with each other and get married, because they are forbidden to in Athens. The king fairy, Oberon, has his wife, Titania, put under a spell to fall in love…

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    Two Women of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Love can be true and despite life’s obstacles can be forced. In Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” two women are forced to fight for what they want. Hermia is deeply in love with Lysander who cannot have Hermia’s fathers blessing. Helena is in love with Demetrius who is in love with Hermia and has been given Hermia’s fathers blessing to marry. Hermia and Helena are in the cross fire of their loves. So why does their friendship get lost and found…

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    battle duels can be arranged too. And in this book, that is exactly what happened. This book was written in 1595 by William Shakespeare as a romantic comedy but the only thing that is funny was how bad the book is. Lysander and Demetrius liked Hermia while she only liked Lysander and Helena liked…

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    by William shakespeare, The characters Helena and Hermia are similar in there taste of men but they have different personalities. Helena is a female character who loves Demetrius, She is one of the four lovers, Lysander, Demetrius, and Hermia. Hermia is a female character who loves Lysander. Throughout the play, Helena are Hermia are good friends but jealousy tears they apart. In the beginning of the play, Hermia hits a rough patch when her father is saying that she has three choices, Marry…

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    Hermia Monologue

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    My group chose to depict the scene where Hermia finds her friends in the woods. She has found Lysander, her love, now in love with Helena because of a love potion Puck mistakenly puts on him. She also finds Demetrius, who was courting her and seemed to hate Helena but is now in love with Helena due to the efforts Oberon put into fixing Puck's mistake. And we also find Helena who thinks this is all a joke and that everybody is just trying to mess with her. We chose this scene because it had…

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    agrees on. The love feud between Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius is the main problem in this fairy tale. And because of all of this disagreement on love there are several different versions on love, like for instance Egeus’s version of love is by forcing love upon someone, while Hermia’s version of love is by love happening naturally which is also called true love. The feud started when Demetrius dumped Helena for Hermia, even though she was in love with Lysander and could care less…

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