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    Hermia is the main reason all of the fighting happens between Lysander and Demetrius and also with Hermia and Helena. Also because she was the one with the idea to go into the woods, if it wasn’t for her then Oberon would’ve never seen…

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    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 each other and are wanting to get married, although Egeus, Hermia’s father, declares her to marry Demetrius. “The worst that may befall me in this…

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    position under the King of Fairies, Oberon, and his childlike behavior result in the main conflict between the lovers. Puck also contributes to some of the conflict involving Titania and her love for Bottom. Puck’s actions are not only influenced by his own personality, but by his means in the fairy kingdom with Oberon, which instigates his role in the lovers’ misunderstandings. While Puck’s disturbances in the play are brought out by his relationship with Oberon, his own personality has a…

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    In both “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (“Dream”) and “The Tempest” (“Tempest”), Shakespeare aims to show the difference between the two kings of his plays. Oberon and Prospero contribute largely to the events that occur in both comedies- Oberon instructs Puck to create the love potion in “Dream” and Prospero got Ariel to help him capsize the ship the Duke of Milan, is on in “Tempest”. Inevitably, readers will compare the similarities and differences they have because of the same role they are given…

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    just nevers has a concious when he plays out his pranks on others. Puck likes to have many idenities some are “shrewd and knavish sprite”, “hobgoblin”, and “merry wanderer of the night”. When Puck made the mistake and thought Demetrius was Lysander, Oberon insited that Puck put the lovers together with the correct partners. Puck then decided to cast spells that would cause there to be a magical mist, so that he could lead all the lovers in one place, so that the lovers would wake up and visualy…

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    requires both chaos and order. The creation of chaos to derive order is necessary for the couples in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to end up happy. This is shown in the course of love between the couples Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena, and Oberon and Titania. Firstly, the existence of chaos resulting in order and a happy ending is shown in the course of love between Lysander and Hermia. Early in the play, Egeus, Hermia’s father, demands that Theseus enforce the Athenian law and force…

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    Midsummer Night’s Dream The idea in this novel is mainly focused on the subject of love, like for instance Hermia was given the choice by Theseus and her father to marry Demetrius or get killed, even though she is in love with Lysander.Theseus also managed to force marriage upon Helena and Demetrius, even though that Demetrius was in love with Hermia, and no one loved Helena, even though Demetrius and Helena have a past together. As you can tell, love is not something that everyone agrees on.…

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    loves Hermia. Furthermore, Oberon wants Titania Indian boy, so he plots revenge against his lover to get the boy. When Lysander tells Hermia, “The course of true love never did run smooth” (1.1.134) he is announcing a central theme of the play. First of all, Lysander and Hermia love each other dearly and plan to get married;although, Egeus, Hermia’s father, Forbids there love. Egeus…

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    The definition of control is the power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events. In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, Eugeus & Oberon exert too much control over others, causing unexpected or horrible outcomes. Controlling others can result in something bad or unexpected happening. Eugeus is too controlling of his daughtering, causing her to run away, along with something very unexpected to follow. In the story, Eugeus states that his daughter…

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    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 the husband her father chose for her and Titania refuses to give her husband, Oberon, the changeling child. Helena loves a man who is not chosen for her and turns against her friend in hopes that Demetrius will love her. Another perspective of women at the time portrayed women as the weaker of the two sexes. Shakespeare…

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