Control In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Shakespeare explains that it’s possible to control somebody’s actions in order to get something they desire. Shakespeare demonstrates that it’s possible to control another person’s actions, especially when deceivers are influential and manipulative. In the story A Midsummer Night’s Dream it shows the influential and manipulative control certain characters without any effort.Most of the time in the play every character leads to a disaster while being an influence on each other to manipulate one another in order to turn things their own way.”That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,Flying between the cold moon and the earth,Cupid all arm’d: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west,And loosed his love-shaft smartly from …show more content…

Demetrius thinks not so;He will not know what all but he do know:And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,So I, admiring of his qualities:Things base and vile, folding no quantity,Love can transpose to form and dignity:Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:And therefore is Love said to be a child,Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,So the boy Love is perjured every where:For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne,He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:Then to the wood will he to-morrow night Pursue her; and for this intelligence If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:But herein mean I to enrich my pain,To have his sight thither and back again.”This supports my claim it’s saying that Helena has feelings for Demetruis, but rather than him having his heart is out for Hermia.As lysander tells Helena where there going to she devises a plan to get Demetruis to dote her by telling him where they’ve gone to.Showing that she influenced Demetruis to go after Hermia trying to manipulate Demetruis for her personal feelings.Act 1 Scence 1 …show more content…

Have you conspired, have you with these contrived To bait me with this foul derision?Is all the counsel that we two have shared The sisters vows, the hours that we have spent,When we have chid the hasty-footed time for parting us--O is all forgot All school-days’ friendship childhood innocence?We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,Have with our needles created both one flower,Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,Both warbling of one song, both in one key,As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds,Had been incorporate. So we grow together,Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,But yet an union in partition,Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart,Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,Due but to one and crowned with one crest.And will you rent our ancient love asunder,To join with men in scorning your poor friend?It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly.Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it,Though I alone do feel the injury.” Act 3 Scene 2

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