Theseus

In the beginning of the play, Egeus presents his complaint to Theseus, as a father who, by law, has the right to select his daughter's spouse. Egeus believes that Lysander has turned Hermia against his will and has made her a disobedient daughter. Egeus is fond of Demetrius and prefers him over Lysander. Egeus…

men again and slowly die a virgin than give her virginity to a man she does not love. Lysander trust in Hermia to make a decision, then once she said she wouldn’t give her virginity to Demetrius even if she would be killed. He stepped in and told Theseus that he is the better man because he truly loves Hermia and is in the same status as Demetrius “I am, my lord, as well derived as he, As well possessed. My love is more than his. My fortunes every way as fairly ranked, (If not with vantage) as…

orders Puck to give the antidote to Lysander and Titania. Act 5: Bottom is missing and the actors putting up a performance for Hippolyta’s wedding are very nervous that the leader, Bottom won’t show up. He finally shows up, they end up performing for Theseus and…

In spite of being one of the incidental causes of the Trojan War, Helen of Troy was the most alluring female in all of Greece. Zeus is the father of Helen, and her mother thought to be either Nemesis or Leda since there are many different versions of the story. In addition, Helen might be the sister of the Dioscuri (the mortals Polydeuces and Castor) because they share the same father, but it is unexplained if they share the same mother. However, the Dioscuri seems to possibly have a different…

frequency". This shows how he focuses and sees more hate than love. Theseus and Hippolyta are preparing for their wedding and there are many happy quotes during this scene. Isherwood chooses to write about the quote where Theseus states, "Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword, and won thy love by doing thee injuries". This is the most negative quote in the scene and Isherwood chooses it. The love and humor…

In the book, The Canterbury Tales, the author, Geoffrey Chaucer, demonstrates his negative perspective on love and institution of marriage. “The Knight’s Tale” and “The Miller’s Tale” enhance the sense that Chaucer does not appreciate the idea of love and marriage. Both stories contain a love triangle and neither marriage was dependent on true love or treated with the appropriate respect. In “The Knight’s Tale”, two imprisoned, sworn brothers, Palamon and Arcita, are in love with the same…

Hippolyta prepare for their wedding. During this process, Hippolyta, the woman Theseus has ‘won in battle’, makes snide comments toward Theseus and is quickly chided by Theseus and returns to her silence. In this society, and this time period, women have few rights and are not allowed to talk back to men and are taught to treat their husbands like kings, regardless of how their husbands treat them in return (societal customs). At the end of the play, after the wedding, the actors perform their…

Theseus and Hippolyta wake up Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius because Hermia has to make her final decision. With the love juice on his eyelids still, Demetrius confesses that he no longer loves Hermia and wants Helena to be the love of his life. Theseus overrides Egeus’s wishes, and he says the three couples will have a triple wedding. After Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus leave, all of them are unclear what exactly happened…

Hermia’s father wants her to marry Demetrius but she wants to marry Lysander. This is when Egeus leads Demetrius, Hermia, and Lysander to the court where the duke of Athens is, Theseus. Egeus brings the lovers to the court so Theseus would enforce the law of making his daughter marry who he wants. At the end of the argument, Theseus gave Hermia three choices. The three choices were to either marry Demetrius, become a nun, or get killed. This is an obstacle because even though the love by…

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 the world around them. Theseus and Hippolyta show us almost a forced love. It says in the beginning of Act 1, “Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword and won thy love doing thee injuries…” (Shakespeare…