between the lovers in Act 3 Scene 2? 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
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HELENA SPEECH (’A Midsummer Night’s Dream’) "Love looks not with the eyes‚ but with the mind‚ And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." This quote is said by Helena during Act 1‚ Scene 1‚ Lines 234 - 235. What Helena means is that‚ Love is an affection which occurs with the mind and not with eyes. Looks aren’t everything‚ Love happens when 2 souls attract to each other. Therefore Love is said to be blind. Helena is a tall‚ fair‚ sweet-hearted person. Despite her lovely characteristics she
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romantic comedy and one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays or stories. The main characters of this story are Oberon‚ Titania‚ Hermia‚ Lysander‚ Demetrius and Helena. This story deals with marriage‚ family‚ elope and comedy. Hermia elopes with her lover Lysander to get married and Demetrius who loves Hermia follows them into while Helena‚ Hermia’s friend and Demetrius’ lover‚ follows Demetrius into the forest. Meanwhile‚ Oberon and Titania‚ king and queen of the fairies in the forest‚ have an argument
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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Lysander and Demetrius change their feelings of love and promises for both Helena and Hermia. Shakespeare shows us how love is unpredictable and inconsistent with the changes of feelings and broken promises between the young lovers. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Lysander switches his love for both Hermia and Helena with changes of feelings of love and broken promises‚ showing how unpredictable and inconsistent love is. In the beginning of the play‚ Lysander is deeply
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with the Mind” In “Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare; Helena describes the undying love that she feels for Demetrius and can’t understand why he does not reciprocate the same. Helena envies her friend Hermia’s and Lysander’s happiness and wishes that she had the same with Demetrius. Although everyone in Athens believes that she is just as pretty as Hermia; Demetrius does not see the same and it torments her. Helena has tried to open up his eyes to make him see that she is the one he
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story is about a young Athenian woman whose father wants her to marry one guy but she is in love with another. Hermia and Lysander have a plan to run off to the wood and get married. Helena‚ Hermia’s cousin is in love with Demetrius‚ the one who Helena is supposed to get married to. Both of the men love Hermia. Helena is so in love she tells Demetrius that she will allow him to treat her like his spaniel. The fairy is told to put a spell on the athenian man so the next person he sees he falls in love
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surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens‚ Theseus‚ and the Queen of the Amazons‚ Hippolyta. The four young Athenians‚ Hermia‚ Demetrius‚ Lysander‚ and Helena and a group of amateur actors are manipulated by the fairies‚ Oberon‚ the king of the fairies‚ and Robin‚ Oberon’s servant. By looking at the tampered love between Helena and Lysander‚ Helena and Demetrius‚ and Bottom and Titania‚ the reader is able to understand how the misuse of magic causes chaos between the lovers. One love affected by
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each other for love. One of the characters‚ Helena‚ is like the “fourth point in a triangle”‚ a love struck friend whose love interest is in love with her friend. Helena desperately loves Demetrius who constantly rejects her. She is the love-struck friend‚ desperately in love and is insecure about herself‚ this makes her persistent and foolish. Helena is the character that no one loves‚ which makes her insecure and jealous. Throughout the play we see Helena thinks that Hermia is more beautiful than
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impossible between Helena and her daughter Cecily because of a life long separation imposed by the father. It is impossible for Helena to be Cecily’s emotional or spiritual mother because Helena is not emotionally equipped to be anything else other than a servant to her husband. Her life has been pre-arranged by a series of male allowances and dictates. Helena and Cecily’s relationship must be emotionally void to work within the shallow‚ materialistic pre-arrangement of their lives. Helena has nothing to
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difficulties that may surface‚ problems can always be solved‚ like many problems solved in Shakespeare’s play. The play takes place in Athens‚ where the four lovers‚ Demetrius‚ Helena‚ Lysander‚ and Hermia reside. Lysander and Hermia truly love each other‚ and plans to elope when Hermia’s father wishes an arranged marriage between Helena and another
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