Middle school students witness brainwashed, lovesick tweens every single day. Whether it’s at school, in your local mall, or even on the sidewalk while walking your dog, kids these days will have no problem with doing such things as kissing, hand-holding, hugging, and other public displays of affection otherwise considered to be adult. While the typical, pink-faced, wide-eyed, innocent teenager should be focusing on their studies, our youth decides to give their attention to how perfect their curls are.
While some adults are bitter on how kids these days do not experience life as they have, without electronics, and how those devices are corrupting the minds of children, we all know it is not true. The plague that attacks the minds of adolescents
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Lysander very much so cheated on Hermia, but did so underneath a spell in which Puck placed him under which granted him the sympathy of the audience. While I am not saying I would do any better if I were in Lysander’s shoes, I do not believe he deserves such a sympathetic reaction. Lysander clearly, even underneath the spell Puck had put him under, understood what kind of despicable things he was about to …show more content…
Love, when placed in the hands of a responsible person, can actually prove to be harmless. However, when abused, love can be far more damaging than a gun. Love can do things such as reunite a bickering family, help someone find their happy ending, or simply brighten someone’s day. The examples included in this analysis are examples of how love is used impurely, but rest assured, they should not be used as a definition of what love is. Our protagonists, sadly, are left to face the consequences of tampering with it. For example, Helena, a presumably fair and sane maiden before her affection towards Demetrius began, has betrayed her best friend to pursue a man who could not have wanted less to do with her. Hermia, a wise but stubborn young woman, chose to gamble with her life rather than to settle with her father’s disgusting but reasonable demands. Lastly, Lysander, a man of pure heart, cheated on the woman he vowed to marry because of a sudden impulse of love towards her best
Oberon says, “Do it for thy truelove take; Love and languish for his sake” (2.2.28-29). Helena says she will do anything to have Demetrius’ love, and Hermia suggests she would rather die than be married to someone rather than Lysander. They do not stop pursuing what they want, which worked for the characters in this particular piece of literature. Theseus speaks to the lovers, and the fellow Athenians present and says “For in the temple, by and by, with us. These couple shall eternally be knit (5.1.183-184). Each character found love in whom they intended to be in love with, because of the mischievous work of the fairies. However, Demetrius is under the love potion while he loves Helena, he is being manipulated. Regardless of the fact that Demetrius’s feeling for Helena are not sincere, there is a happiness that is surrounding each of the lovers that overpowers the scheme. In regards to Helena, Demetrius says, “Now I do wish it, love it, long for it, and will for evermore be true to it” (5.1.178-179). These mischievous actions led to happiness, but the values of the fairies are once again tested as they are aware of this happiness, yet know it is untrue. In retrospect, Oberon did say they are solely looking to mend the heartache of the Athenian lovers, and infer true
When an emotion is believed to embody all that brings bliss, serenity, effervescence, and even benevolence, although one may believe its encompassing nature to allow for generalizations and existence virtually everywhere, surprisingly, directly outside the area love covers lies the very antithesis of love: hate, which in all its forms, has the potential to bring pain and destruction. Is it not for this very reason, this confusion, that suicide bombings and other acts of violence and devastation are committed in the name of love? In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the reader experiences this tenuity that is the line separating love and hate in many different forms and on many different levelsto the extent that the line between the two begins to blur and become indistinguishable. Seen through Ruth's incestuous love, Milkman and Hagar's relationship, and Guitar's love for African-Americans, if love causes destruction, that emotion is not true love; in essence, such destructive qualities of "love" only transpire when the illusion of love is discovered and reality characterizes the emotion to be a parasite of love, such as obsession or infatuation, something that resembles love but merely inflicts pain on the lover.
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?
Lysander pitches in to support Hermia’s claims of purity “Demetrius, I’ll avouch it to his head..” “quote” (pp). Here, Lysander claims that Demetrius slept with Helena and is therefore a “spoiled and inconstant man” “quote” (pp). OED. EDITORS gloss “spotted” as “morally stained” “quote” (pp). The Oxford English Dictionary also defines “spotted” as “something disgraceful.” This only emphasizes the uncouth premarital and in Hermia’s line of logic, immoral relationship between Demetrius and Hermia. This moral impurity is a compromise to Hermia’s chastity and perpetuates her dedication to love that is already evident in this passage.
For instance, love as a weapon of power relates to the notion that a person can distort the sentiments and mentality of another person by means of altering the amount of happiness they experience in regards to love. For many, finding love means finding true happiness and a sense of emotional stability and accomplishment. In the Sapphic poem, “Deathless Aphrodite”, Sappho experiences emotional instability once more as this is not the first time she is faced with rejection. Sappho has suffered and called out for help many a time given that she’s unable to
Throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream the theme of conflict with authority is apparent and is the cause of the problems that befall the characters. It also is used to set the mood of the play. The passage below spoken by Theseus in the opening of the play clearly states this theme.
This passage marks the first of several types of love, and gives us an intuitive
Love is often misconstrued as an overwhelming force that characters have very little control over, but only because it is often mistaken for the sum of infatuation and greed. Love and greed tread a blurred line, with grey areas such as lust. In simplest terms, love is selfless and greed is selfish. From the agglomeration of mythological tales, people deduce that love overpowers characters, even that it drives them mad. However, they would be wrong as they would not have analyzed the instances in depth to discern whether or not the said instance revolves around true love. Alone, true love help characters to act with sound reasoning and logic, as shown by the tales of Zeus with his lovers Io and Europa in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology.
Most of the time love is our encouragement when we are in trouble, sometimes love can drag us to things we don’t want to happen in our lives. “First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack.” (p.1) The letters from Martha signed, “Love Martha” even though the letters were not love letters, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross understands that he doesn’t receive the type of love he hopes for from Martha.
her and lying to her when both Demetrius and Lysander confessed their love out of nowhere and
In the beginning Lysander and Hermia run off to the forest to try to escape the king’s commandments, so they can be together. They believe if they can escape their problems and go somewhere where there is no rules they can finally be happy together. In an essay Bouloussa states how the Athenian lovers (Hermia & Lysander) attempt to escape their problems because they believe this is where there happiness lies. But Helena tells Demetrius and he goes after them, which leads Helena to follow. One day while out Puck and Oberon see Helena and Demetrius fighting and Oberon decides to use the love potion on Demetrius to attempt to fix the love mess. Initially, Puck is only supposed to use the love potion on Demetrius not Lysander. But of course Puck messes up, and ends up using the love potion on both of them, which causes them both to chase after Helena for her love and affection. Furthermore, when she sees them acting this way she believes they are mocking her, so she rejects their
The Symposium, The Aeneid, and Confessions help demonstrate how the nature of love can be found in several places, whether it is in the mind, the body or the soul. These texts also provide with eye-opening views of love as they adjust our understanding of what love really is. By giving us reformed spectrum of love, one is able to engage in introspective thinking and determine if the things we love are truly worthy of our sentiment.
The relationship between Demetrius and Hermia is problematic, in that Demetrius is seeking the affections of Hermia, while she is in love with Lysander. However, Hermia’s father approves of Demetrius and tries to force her to marry him, but Hermia refuses because of her love for Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1.1.22-82). Lysander points out the flaw in the situation through this comment, “You have her father 's love, Demetrius –/Let me have Hermia 's. Do you marry him,” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1.1.93-94). The second flawed relationship is between Lysander and Helena, as a result of an enchantment put on Lysander that made him fall in love with Helena. Helena does not want the affections of Lysander, but rather the love of Demetrius, and believes that Lysander is taunting her. In addition, this relationship creates tensions because Hermia is in love with Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2.2.109-140). Both relationships are not desirable due to a lack of mutual admiration and the creation of non-peaceful and unsatisfying
In this essay I would like to emphasize different ideas of how love is understood and discussed in literature. This topic has been immortal. One can notice that throughout the whole history writers have always been returning to this subject no matter what century people lived in or what their nationality was.
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