Midsummer

Journey of Love In a person’s life they encounter many different people and they experience several types of love. As is the case in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are numerous types of love in this play. We start off with the love between Theseus and Hippolyta, at one time meeting in war and now discussing their wedding. From there we are introduced to Egeus, Hermia, Demetrius and Lysander. The different types of love in this group range from parental, true and even possessive…

goal, in the end, the protagonist must find happiness for a play to really be classified as a “comedy”. But what if the happiness of a protagonist is only created through the use of magic unwillingly forced onto the character? In Shakespeare 's “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” the character Demetrius is forced into loving Helena due to the faerie king Oberon’s magic spell. While Helena, who views Demetrius as her true love, get her “happy ending” once the two are wed, Demetrius’ side of things is…

benefits, not love. William Shakespeare lived in the midst of these cultural custom, yet some of his works left critics with the impression that he believed in true love being a vital element in a marriage. One critic, David Wiles, wrote about A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the representation of an epithalamium; a poem celebrating a marriage. Wiles begins verifying his claim by discussing various nuptial symbols. Dew and moisture are a constant occurrence throughout the play. Wiles believes the…

"The course of genuine romance never ran smooth," remarks Lysander of adoration's complexities in a trade with Hermia (Shakespeare I.i.136). In spite of the fact that the play A Midsummer Night's Dream absolutely manages the trouble of sentiment, it isn't viewed as a genuine romance story like Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare, as he unfurls the story, deliberately separates the gathering of people from the feelings of the characters so he can personification the anguish and weights persevered by…

power behind most of the action in the plays. In both A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Othello, the nature of love is communicated in two different ways. The first way is that love is a random, irrational, and blind power that individuals will risk everything to hold onto. The second interpretation is that love is an illusion; it is not everlasting or unstoppable. These two interpretations of the nature of love are very similar in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and in Othello. The key act shows the…

In A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare, four Athenian youths struggle with the consequences of their feelings for each other. Hermia and Lysander are madly in love but cannot get married because Hermia’s father doesn’t like Lysander, so they decide to leave their families and elope together. However, their friends Helena and Demetrius have the opposite issue, where Helena endlessly follows Demetrius in pursuit of his affection, but to no avail. Both couples find themselves lost in a…

Did you know Hermia being tortured by a law? Well, The Duke of Athens, Theseus, declared this law when him and Hermia’s father were discussing issues to each other. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Hermia was affected harshly by the her father and the Athenian Law. Hermia was treated unfairly by her father and the Athenian law because she either had to marry Demetrius, be killed, or become a nun. The first reason Hermia’s choices were unfair is because she had to marry…

Symbols are used in many ways, it can symbolize the importance of something, a lesson or have a meaning. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, symbols are used to show love. From the effects of the love potion causing mix-ups between lovers. Theseus and Hippolyta representing stability through the beginning to the end. Craftsmen play representing the struggles between Hermia and Lysander are finally over. By looking at the love potion, Theseus and Hippolyta, the craftsmen…

In the play, A Midsummer Night 's Dream by William Shakespeare, there are four couples that all are shown to find love and happiness through a night of mischief and fairy magic. Reassuring lines, such as “To the best bride bed will we, / Which by us shall blessèd be. / And the issue there create / Ever shall be fortunate. / So shall all the couples three / Ever true in loving be” (5.1.17) promise a happy ending for everyone. But would this actually be the case, even with fairy magic? It 's…

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…