A Comparison of Shakespearean and Modern Relationships based on the Shakespearean play 'A Mid-summer Nights Dream'
Good Morning everyone and welcome to the seminar 'Ensuring a Successful Relationship' and I am here to tell you just that. Today we will be discussing how young people establish a relationship, the roles men and women play in an ancient and modern relationships and obstacles they face in these scenarios. As my example for the 'ancient' relationship I will be using the Shakespearean play ' A Mid-summer Nights Dream' and for the 'Modern' relationship I will be drawing my conclusions from the portrayal of love and romance in popular culture. I choose these examples because they both show different ideals of 'love' and relationships.
The first topic of today's lecture is establishing a relationship. To begin with lets look back at our Shakespearean couples; the first of which being Thesus and Hippolyta.
Thesus was the Duke of Athens and Hippolyta the Queen of the Amazon's. They came to be a couple after Thesus defeated the amazons. He says in Act one: "Hippolyta, I wooded thee with my sword, and won thy love doing thee injury." I don't know how all of you feel but I think that's a pretty lousy way to begin a relationship. Lets look at this in today's terms. Girls, if a guy walked up to you and punched you in the stomach would you fall ' head over heels' in love with him? I really doubt that you would but back in the 1600's if a guy beat up your friends and then flashed knife around the polite thing to do is to fall in love with him and accept his marriage proposal. I find it somewhat unbelievable that this type of relationship would occur in today's society unless you live in the amazon jungle in a straw hut.
The next Shakespearean lovers are Lysander and Hermia. Their relationship was born over time. Blossoming over time from friendship to supposed 'love'. In many ways it is stereotypical to a Shakespearean relationship in the following ways: Firstly, It was a forbidden love, found not only in this play but many others including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Love's
The first topic of today's lecture is establishing a relationship. To begin with lets look back at our Shakespearean couples; the first of which being Thesus and Hippolyta.
Thesus was the Duke of Athens and Hippolyta the Queen of the Amazon's. They came to be a couple after Thesus defeated the amazons. He says in Act one: "Hippolyta, I wooded thee with my sword, and won thy love doing thee injury." I don't know how all of you feel but I think that's a pretty lousy way to begin a relationship. Lets look at this in today's terms. Girls, if a guy walked up to you and punched you in the stomach would you fall ' head over heels' in love with him? I really doubt that you would but back in the 1600's if a guy beat up your friends and then flashed knife around the polite thing to do is to fall in love with him and accept his marriage proposal. I find it somewhat unbelievable that this type of relationship would occur in today's society unless you live in the amazon jungle in a straw hut.
The next Shakespearean lovers are Lysander and Hermia. Their relationship was born over time. Blossoming over time from friendship to supposed 'love'. In many ways it is stereotypical to a Shakespearean relationship in the following ways: Firstly, It was a forbidden love, found not only in this play but many others including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Love's