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Fairies In A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Man Who was Forced to Love

Did you know that in Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort is unable to feel love because he was conceived while his father was under a love potion? This will be further explained in this essay about Demetrius in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In this popular tale, the story revolves around love stricken people roaming around in the woods, meddling fairies, and silly actors. Demetrius, one of the person's in the woods that fateful summer night, follows the woman that he thinks he loves into the woods, only to get spun about by fairies addling his sense of love, a potion, and a false conception of love. The fairies addled his sense of love with their solution to the mortal’s issues. “My love to Hermia, Melted as the snow, seems to me now As the remembrance of an idle gaud. Which in my childhood I did dote upon; And all the faith, the virtue of my heart, The object and the pleasure of mine eye, Is only Helena.” (4.1.153-156). He doesn’t love her! Love is a feeling, usually developed after a long while. One cannot just slap some flower juice on someone’s eyes and Presto! They only have eyes for you. Demetrius loved Hermia, no matter how he showed it. The fairies had no right to get involved, as it just ruined a person's life. Yeah everyone else …show more content…
An example to further explain this statement is, “O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!”(A Midsummer Night's Dream 3.2.138-139) This shows Demetrius’ false conception of love because, when Demetrius was in “love” with Hermia and trying to split her and Lysander apart, in no way did he ever talk to Hermia as he did to Helena under the potions’ effect. He never tried to woo her or talk sweetly to her. Demetrius only desired Hermia’s beauty. When he was in love with Helena, he was constantly telling her of her beauty and complimenting her. If the flower made you fall into deep love, then Demetrius must’ve not truly loved
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