A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play that describes many different types of love. True love was never said to be easy. Sometimes love can be harder to accept than anything else or maybe we all look for the fairytale. Sometimes love can be forced upon us. Love can be jealous and unkind. Love can be for all the wrong reasons no matter how right or wrong we believe that it feels. Love can also be natural and very romantic. Love can be unconditional and for all the right reasons. It is soulfully up to each individual to decide if the love they have for one another is right or wrong, or even worth fighting for in trouble times.
When love is forced upon two people, they will more than likely go astray eventually. In the play,
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Hermia could not stand to think about marrying a man that she did not truly love and was not going to allow her father to make the choice for her. She wanted to marry the love of her life and be happy. The love of her life was Lysander. Lysander wanted the same as Hermia. The two of them decided to run off into the woods and elope no matter what the consequences were going to be.
Jealousy can also be a big burden to a relationship and destroy everything you are trying to build. Love should not be jealous at all. When two people are jealous of one another they tend to lose sight of how they truly feel about one another and tend to focus more on the negative things. This could happen between couples or between friends. Lysander was jealous of the fact that Hermia was being forced to marry Demetrius. He felt that he was just as good a man as
Demetrius was. Demetrius was jealous of the fact that Hermia did not truly love him but loved
Lysander instead. Helena, which was a friend to Hermia, was jealous of the fact that Hermia
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Sometimes when parents are trying to show love they over step because they want what is best and underestimate their child’s ability to make sound decisions. The children then rebel because they are angry, and that is just what Hermia and
Lysander did.
True, romantic love is a love like Theseus and Hippolyta shared. After Theseus saw all the trouble that the others went through to try and prove their love for one another, he let it be so.
He went against Egues and let Hermia and Lysander marry. He made arrangements so that they all could be married together at the same time. The young couples showed the adults that true love is worth fighting for and if you do not give up then you will be happy in the end.
Love is a beautiful thing. Sometimes we lose sight of what is important when it comes to love. Love should be a happy feeling. No one should feel forced into it, jealous of one another, or tricked into loving someone. Love comes natural and you should always follow your heart.
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The mood immediately changes and we discover that Hermia rather than being filled with filial love is determined to marry Lysander rather than her father’s choice for her. And so the love theme is made more complex as we have the wrathful love of her father confronted by the love of her daughter for the man who is not her fathers’ choice. The love theme is further complicated by the arrival of Helena. Here we see the platonic love of two friends.
the difficulty Lysander and hermia have he may lose the love of his life it seems
Many times the love that a person is looking for is the one that a person doesn't realize.
In A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Lysander and Demetrius motives are always to try and achieve love. When Demetrius heard of Hermia and Lysander’s escape and attempts to go follow her, he states, “Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?/The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me.” Demetrius feels immense anguish and hatred towards the situation, and he derives his power from his feelings. Shakespeare shows this by using a play on words and the sound of his writing.
of this mistake until later when he realizes that he messed up Lysanders and Hermias true love.
When Lysander is speaking to Hermia in Act I, Scene I; he is both stating a truth about the mystery of love, as while as foreshadowing the upcoming trouble in the play. Egeus has made his demands that his daughter obey him and marry Demetrius. The tension between the father and the chosen lover of his daughter has set the conflict into motion. Demetrius has left with Theseus, Hippolyta and Egeus to discuss the wedding of the Duke of the Athens. The young lovers Lysander and Hermia are left on stage and he tells her in Lines 132-134: “For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.” He speaks these words to comfort Hermia, but neither has any idea of the crazy night that will come in the
This next in block citation is a great chunk of text from the play. Lysander really declares his love for Hermia. This also shows how Lysander thinks about love:
“The course of true love never did run smooth” ~William Shakespeare. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theseus and Hippolyta plan their wedding, which includes a play by the craftsman. While the other characters are trying to figure out their love for one another, the fairies interfere. Throughout the play the characters alternate lovers often. Although they bicker at one another, everyone finds their way to their true soul mate. The characters in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are successful, after many trials and tribulations, in acquiring their desired relationships.
An important passion shown in this story is the passion of friendship from Helena. Lysander and demetrius were both deeply in love with Hermia, but suddenly they became slaves for Helena, under the spell of a love potion. This antagonises Helena and she blames it all on Hermia and her cruel joke. She says to Hermia, “The sisters’ vows, the hours that we have spent, when we have chid the hasty-footed time for parting us,-o is all forgot” (III.II.199-201)? Helena asks her if she has forgotten about their friendship, about the vows they took to be like sisters and never leave each other. This shows that although Hermia may have forgotten their friendship, Helena will always remember because friendship is really important to her. Friendship is a bond Helena feels really passionate about and takes very seriously. Another quote that shows Helena’s passion for friendship is “ Both warbling of one song, both in one key, as if our hands, our sides, voices and minds have been incorporated”(III. II. 207-208). This represents that Helena took their friendship sincerely and she believed in them and nothing could break their bond. Her last bit of her anger com...
Lysander calls Demetrius a?spotted and inconsistent man?, indicating Demetrius? fickleness towards women, that he is flirtatious and flawed. Demetrius is willing to go to any extent to have Hermia marry him, even allowing Hermia to be subject to a life of a nun or death, if she does not marry him. Demetrius. infatuation with Hermia brings out the tyrannical and possessive part of his character, as can be seen when he says?and, Lysander, yield thy crazed title to my certain right?
When Hermia and Lysander are sleeping in the woods, Lysander suggests that “one turf shall serve as a pillow for us both, one heart, one bed, two bosoms, and one troth” (Act II Scene I). Hermia replies, “nay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear, lie further off yet, do not lie so near” (Act II Scene I). Lysander then regards her wishes and sleeps away from Hermia. His ability to honor her despite his desires shows respect, a crucial quality in forming a healthy relationship, proving that Lysander and Hermia will have a lucrative
William Shakespeare’s writings are famous for containing timeless, universal themes. A particular theme that is explored frequently in his writings is the relationship between men and women. A Midsummer Night’s Dream contains a multitude of couplings, which are often attributed to the fairies in the play. Each of these pairings has positive and negative aspects, however, some relationships are more ideal than others. From A Midsummer Night’s Dream the optimal pairings are Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena, and Oberon and Titania; while the less desirable pairings are Theseus and Hippolyta, Hermia and Demetrius, Lysander and Helena, and Titania and Bottom. Throughout A Midsummer
...speare’s quote “The course of true love never did run smooth” is one of the best quotes to be ever said. Finding love is one of the hardest things, and getting approval for it is one of the other hardest things. No matter what love will find it’s way but the path to true love never did run smooth so patience is the key.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play of conflicted love. Thus semi-comedy displays the notion of, the spiritual and natural world working together. The play begins with a noble family discussing a planned marriage. Hermia is arranged to marry a man she does not love. In rebellion she and her lover (Lysander) flees to the woods so they can avoid Athenian law. Before leaving Hermia tells her sister about her plans to run away. In desire to gain revenge and find love herself Helena (Hermia’s sister) chases Hermia and her intended mate into the woods. The forest is where the spirits live, the fairy king, Oberon, is desperate to gain the affection of the fairy queen. He saw cupid shoot his love arrow, which landed on a flower. He is determined that,
In the first part of the play Egeus has asked the Duke of Athens, Theseus, to rule in favor of his parental rights to have his daughter Hermia marry the suitor he has chosen, Demetrius, or for her to be punished. Lysander, who is desperately in love with Hermia, pleads with Egeus and Theseus for the maiden’s hand, but Theseus’, who obviously believes that women do not have a choice in the matter of their own marriage, sides with Egeus, and tells Hermia she must either consent to marrying Demetrius, be killed, or enter a nunnery. In order to escape from the tragic dilemma facing Hermia, Lysander devises a plan for him and his love to meet the next evening and run-off to Lysander’s aunt’s home and be wed, and Hermia agrees to the plan. It is at this point in the story that the plot becomes intriguing, as the reader becomes somewhat emotionally “attached’’ to the young lovers and sympathetic of their plight. However, when the couple enters the forest, en route to Lysander’s aunt’s, it is other mischievous characters that take the story into a whole new realm of humorous entertainment...