Dakota Hansen English 3rd period Attachment Styles MND Wednesday, April 17. HOW ATTACHMENT STYLES ARE RELATE TO “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM” You may be asking what are attachment styles and what is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Attachment styles are a bond and the emotional connection you have in a relationship. Well, the play is about four teenagers running away to a forest. Puck fairy makes two of the boys fall in love with the same person. You may be asking about how the anxious attachment style is related. Anxious attachment style means “the feeling of unease, worry or fear.” Who demonstrates this? I think Helena does because she gets attached easily. The quote I think that demonstrates how she is related to this attachment style is “I am …show more content…
The other attachment style is avoidant, which means discomfort with emotional intimacy, a strong desire for independence, and difficulty wholly trusting others. I think Demetrius is a good example of this because he kind of pushed Helena away. He wanted to see Hermia, but Helena just kept following him through the forest. This is the quote I found that demonstrated how Demetrius has this attachment style. “Look, I don’t love you, so stop following me around.” Meaning he just wanted to be alone. He hated that she was around him. This is the last one, too. It is the secure attachment style. This means “Overall comfortable with closeness and intimacy”. “Can communicate their needs and feelings in relationships.” I think that Lysander is a good fit for this attachment style. He has passion and protection for whichever happens to be the object of his desire. The quote I found was “Her father loves you, Demetrius”. So why don’t you marry him and let me have Hermia.” Why should you know what attachment styles are? Thought-out the play, each person has multiple attachment styles because let’s just use Demetrius as the character for this part. There are moments where he is mad and aggressive
“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.
Which is more important, happiness or loyalty? In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written in 1595, William Shakespeare explores this question through the intense emotions of his characters. One example of this is when Hermia, a maiden, chooses to run away with her forbidden lover, Lysander, instead of marrying the man of her father’s choice, Demetrius, or picking one of the two harsh consequences. Another example is when Titania, the fairy queen of the forest near Athens, disobeys her husband Oberon, the fairy king, who demands Titania hand over an infant that she loves extremely. Through this play, Shakespeare implies that it is more important to follow your heart than to be allegiant and loyal to someone if the loyalty keeps you from
Love can be quite chaotic at times. As much as poets and songwriters promote the idea of idyllic romantic love, the experience in reality is often fraught with emotional turmoil. When people are in love, they tend to make poor decisions, from disobeying authority figures to making rash, poorly thought-out choices. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses various motifs to illustrate how love, irrationality, and disobedience are thematically linked to disorder.
Havey Sunshine’s speech at the Sunnyside Council meeting conveys that visitors/tourists who visit Sunnyside are causing damage and inconvenience to locals, damaging sunflower plantations. The author intended to call on the council and residents of Sunnyside to support his motion to charge admission to sunflower fields. The speech aims to reach residents of Sunnyside who care about the issue and council members. He contends to create a solution to the issue, as tourism is getting out of hand. Residents should receive financial support for letting people come to their fields.
Infatuation is love which is self-indulgent, obsessive and irrational. It causes people to lose their self-control and perspective. It is often a product of the senses, which is of physical infatuation rather than mental compatibility, thus it is appropriate for Oberon's love potion to be applied to the eyes which is the strongest senses a person depends on to view the world.
Some of the most prominent themes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream are the omnipresence of love and desire and the tendencies of characters to manifest their defining traits. Helena and Hermia are two perfect examples of this. Hermia is the lover, and Helena the desirer, and both thrive off of their obsessions. In fact, both women are so tied to these traits that when they are taken away, their characters deflate and fall static.
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
Love is a powerful emotion, capable of turning reasonable people into fools. Out of love, ridiculous emotions arise, like jealousy and desperation. Love can shield us from the truth, narrowing a perspective to solely what the lover wants to see. Though beautiful and inspiring when requited, a love unreturned can be devastating and maddening. In his play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare comically explores the flaws and suffering of lovers. Four young Athenians: Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia, and Helena, are confronted by love’s challenge, one that becomes increasingly difficult with the interference of the fairy world. Through specific word choice and word order, a struggle between lovers is revealed throughout the play. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses descriptive diction to emphasize the impact love has on reality and one’s own rationality, and how society’s desperate pursuit to find love can turn even strong individuals into fools.
Fairies, mortals, magic, love, and hate all intertwine to make A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare a very enchanting tale, that takes the reader on a truly dream-like adventure. The action takes place in Athens, Greece in ancient times, but has the atmosphere of a land of fantasy and illusion which could be anywhere. The mischievousness and the emotions exhibited by characters in the play, along with their attempts to double-cross destiny, not only make the tale entertaining, but also help solidify one of the play’s major themes; that true love and it’s cleverly disguised counterparts can drive beings to do seemingly irrational things.
Different Aspects of Love Presented in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander + Hermia = True love? Sexual Attraction (Lust) ------------------------------------------------------- Titania + Oberon = Love or hate (Married )
Throughout the events which unfold in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare delivers several messages on love. Through this play, one of the significant ideas he suggests is that love is blind, often defying logic and overriding other emotions and priorities. Helena loves Demetrius unconditionally and pursues him despite knowing that he loathes her; conflict arises between Helena and Hermia, childhood best friends, over Demetrius and Lysander; and because she is in love, Queen Titania is able to see beauty and virtue in the ass-headed Nick Bottom.
Natalie Rohman Mr. Johnson Pd. 2 12/6/14 IR Letter Dear Students of York High School, Shakespeare’s
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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a play based on a romantic love story. In this play, there are several types of love displayed between several of the main characters in the play. One of the most famous quotes from the play was by Lysander and it was “The course of true love never did run smooth” (Act 1, Scene 1). This meant that with any type of love, a person will experience its ups and downs, they will agree to disagree, but more importantly, love is unpredictable. Parenteral love, forced love, and true love are 3 types of love displayed/expressed in the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Love and Marriage in A Midsummer Night’s Dream There is something to be said for the passionate love of young people, and Shakespeare said it in Romeo and Juliet. The belief that any action can be excused if one follows one's feelings is a sentimental notion that is not endorsed by Shakespeare. Thus, Theseus' suggestion in 1.1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, that Hermia marry a man she does not love rather than "live a barren sister" all her life would seem perfectly sensible to Shakespeare’s contemporaries. Shakespeare writes for a public who views marriage unsentimentally. At all levels of society, from king to commoner, marriage is entered into for commercial and dynastic reasons.