In the forest, the fairy Puck accidently puts the love potion on Lysnader’s eyes instead of Demetrius’s resulting in Lysander falling in love with Helena. As the night goes on, Lysander and Demetrius both fall in love with Helena, who thinks that they are mocking her, and Hermia challenging Helena to a fight. In the end Puck fixes his mistake, Lysander once again loves Hermia and Demetrius falls for Helena. The two couples marry and go to watch the play.…
I am Kaitlyn Luepann and I am portraying the fairy attendants Peaseblossom, Bottom, Cobweb, and the “jester fairy” Puck From William Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” I will be portraying all these characters as one character with characteristics of all four. The ways I am going to adapt the characters that I am portraying are for me to have a witty sense of humour, yet have common courtesy and manners, and have respectful body language and a humourous tone of voice because the three fairy attendants are very respectful, but Puck is humourous. How I adapt all of the fairies body language and tone of voice from the play to the modern day is to be a respectful Starbucks worker, who cracks jokes in a funny manner while customers…
Explore how Shakespeare explores love through the character of Titania in ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’.…
In Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, I learned that relationships are tested in situations with drastic outcomes. For example, a scene occurs where Egeus is angry at his daughter Hermia for wanting to marry someone without his consent (22). Egeus then threatens to kill Hermia if she didn't marry Demetrius, the man he gave his consent to. This relates back to the theme because Egeus put his father-daughter relationship on the line so he could get his way. As Egeus said "As she is mine I may dispose of her," meaning he is willing to let his daughter die rather than allow her to marry freely. Another example of this theme occurring is when Helena accuses Hermia of partaking in a prank where Hermia's lovers taunt her (106-107). Helena…
In the play a Midsummer Night's Dream written by William Shakespeare, there are many lovers that are drawn to each other in various ways. One can fall in love at any age. The definition of love is a deep affection for someone or something. In the Shakespeare's play the three pairs of lovers encounter issues where Oberon instructs Puck to sprinkle "love juice" on an Athenian man's eyes. However, he did it to the wrong man, and the other lovers started turning on their loved ones and showing love and affection for another; in Titania's case it was an ass. While reclining with Titania, Bottom states the quote," reason and love keep little company nowadays". This quote is very significant to how love worked in the play and even in normal teenage life today. The quote is greatly signified by Garrett and Caroline,who both liked each other in high school but could not find reason of why.…
Lysander and Hermia, both young and well-off, are unpermitted, according to the Ancient Privilege, to wed each other without the approval of Hermia’s father, Egeus. However, not quite prepared to end their relationship, the lovers very ambitiously and suddenly run into a nearby forest. They have done so without considering the consequences, and as a result, find themselves lost. Lysander suggests this, when he says, “Fair love, you faint wandering in the wood, and in truth, I have forgot our way,” (II. ii. 41-42). Later in the play, the duke of Athens, Theseus, overbears Egeus’ will, and insists Lysander and Hermia wed each other on his marriage day. Hermia, in quickness and happiness, agrees, without considering her father’s reaction. By doing so, she may be sacrificing her relationship with him. In both situations, the young Athenians pay no attention to the consequences of their relationship, which supports the idea that love ignores all…
The play focuses on the exploration of romanticism and the pursuit of love. The story revolves around the upcoming marriage between Duke Theseus and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. The Duke is approached by a man named Egeus who is in complaint of his daughter’s choice of men. He wishes that his daughter, Hermia, will marry Demetrius in which she declines. She is in love with Lysander and proclaims “O hell, to choose love by another’s eyes” (Shakespeare 1659). The Duke gives Hermia an ultimatum to either marry Demetrius or accept the penalty. The penalty is “Either to die the death” or “To live a barren sister all your life” (1657). Hermia and Lysander make plans to run off and get married. Hermia’s friend, Helena, comes into the picture. Helena is in love with Demetrius, but he is not in love with her. Helena tells Demetrius the plan of the elopement in an attempt for him to fall in love with her. While this is happening, a group of craftsmen are putting together a play for the Duke’s wedding. This comes into play because they are practicing in the woods where Hermia and Lysander are waiting to run off to get married. Also in the woods are the Fairy King, Oberon, and Queen, Titania. The fairies have a magic love dust works when sprinkled in one’s eyes. When the person awakes, they fall in love with the first thing they see. The play continues with Lysander and Hermia in the woods with…
When Helena is first introduced into the play, she talks to herself (the audience) about love and the qualities about Demetrius that she loves, “So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” (1.1.32-35) Helena is saying that she admires Demetrius’s good qualities and she fails to notice his flaws. In other words, Helena is miserably in love that she sees Demetrius the way she wants to see him, she’s blinded by his faults such as his aggressive, negative attitude towards Helena. However, Helena isn’t the only blinded lover in the play; Demetrius has shown various blind loves towards Helena. Demetrius is charmed by Puck with the love-in-idleness flower in act 3, scene 2, hence causing him to wake up to Helena and magically fall deeply in love with her. The first few words that come out of Demetrius’s mouth after awaking were “O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!” (3.2.137) which is odd to Helena because only a few hours ago he was yelling at her words that were nowhere near as doted. Simply stated, Demetrius’s comment to Helena is vague but a considerable example of the illusion of love. For the most part, Demetrius and Helena are both dazed and uncertain of their true feelings for each…
Love is a mysterious journey. Love can either be for the better, or the worse. Love should be the choice of you, yourself, and not forced upon you by others. As the famous quote “Love is not for the faint of heart.” states, love is not an easy thing. You must undergo heartache, failure and rejection in order to succeed with love. This is very prevalent in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the case of Lysander and Demetrius.…
Shakespeare was pointing out that love is maddening and that people do very eccentric things for love. In the play A Midsummer night’s dream written by Shakespeare, the characters portray the quote written by John Lennon, ‘All you need is love’ in multiple ways. To some extent the quote is relatable and to some extent it is not. In the play, there is tension between love and law, thus, four lovers escape into the magic forest, while problems arise in the forest between Oberon, the king of fairies, and Titania, the queen of fairies. Oberon’s most trusted servant, Puck (Robin Goodfellow) uses magic juice to play tricks, to entertain his master, by mocking the power of love.…
(Scene opens: Everyone is laying on the ground, as though they are dead, focus on Hypnos.)…
At the Start of a Midsummer Night’s Dream the relationships between the lovers, Hermia, Helena, Lysander and Demetrius are very confusing. Hermia is being forced by her father, Egeus, to marry Demetrius which she doesn’t love but he loves her. Hermia loves Lysander and he loves her. Helena loves Demetrius In Act 3 scene 2 and nobody loves Helena. The relationships between the lovers change because Puck puts a love potion first, on Lysander’s eyes and then on Demetrius’s eyes so that the first person they saw when they woke up, they loved. So now both Demetrius and Lysander love Helena. Helena still loves Demetrius and, Hermia still loves Lysander. But now nobody loves Hermia.…
In the play a midsummer night’s dream Helena and Demetrius show us that love is blind. For example, even though Demetrius treats her like a dog, threatening to hit her, Helena still tells him,“I am your spaniel.../Use me but as your spaniel-spurn me, strike me”.(2.1.203-205) She doesn’t get that Demetrius doesn’t want to be with her, let alone like or love her. All he cares about is Hermia and that’s all that’s on his mind. “Oh, why rebuke you him that loves you so?...Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe”.(3.2.43-44) Demetrius loves Hermia so much but she doesn’t want him just like he does to Helena. now he should feel how he does Helena.…
Shakespeare begins scene one of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by introducing the characters that eventually help him convey the power of vision in its qualities of bringing about change. One of these personalities is Helena, a young woman of Athens who is in love with a nobleman named Demetrius. Frequently depicted in frustration, Helena’s character often comments about “eyes” and their relation to the reason why Demetrius does not return her love. It is at these instances where Shakespeare begins to link the vision motif to the ability of “eyes” to alter the perceptions of people. For example, when Helena is distressed about Demetrius’s newfound love for her best friend, Hermia, she claims that “Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind/ And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind” (Shakespeare.I.i.234-235). Through these lines, Shakespeare hints a broader significance: love depends not on an objective assessment of appearance but rather on a perception created in the mind. In other words, Shakespeare claims that Demetrius’s sudden change in heart is because of a change in his mental perception of Helena and Hermia. Therefore, Helena thinks Demetrius has built up a fantastic notion of Hermia’s beauty that prevents him from recognizing Helena’s own beauty. Based on this idea, it is evident that such visions, engendered in the mind, can force one to think the complete…
I grew interested in the play’s conflict, since it seems modern day typical. I, for one, enjoy watching love stories and dramas. This play, served just that purpose. Reading of the avenged lover’s, Hermia and Lysander, plan to run into the forest to marry seemed likely to be seen on a Wednesday night, 9:00PM, drama series. Which, I absolutely love! Then, the play takes a twist from reality. Helena acquires information related to Hermia and Lysander’s plan to marry, which provides her initiative to tell Demetrius. She intends on winning back the love of Demetrius. The two of them go out in search of the Lysander and Hermia, and find that they’ve all landed themselves in a forest filled with “fairies.”…