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    concept of love. Love is thrown and shifted around multiple times between the characters throughout the comedy‚ primarily due to magical interference. However‚ these fickle interferences provoke them to ponder their morals and values regarding love. Helena displays this conflict in her feelings towards Demetrius. In the beginning of the play‚ she is very self-pitiful when it comes to love. When her “true love‚” Demetrius‚ doesn’t return her love interest‚ and instead loves Hermia‚ she becomes very upset

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    overcome many challenges like love‚ parents‚ and magic. Lysander and Hermia truly love each other unlike demetrius. He loves Hermia but she loves lysander. Helena truly loves Demetrius but he loathes her. When Lysander and Hermia can not get married‚ they run to his aunt’s house to get married. Demetrius‚ loving Helena‚ follows them after helena tips him off. In addition to problems with love Egeus wants Demetrius to marry his Progeny but she does not want to. Hermia loves Lysander. Egeus (Hermia’s

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    Then Oberon and Titania dance. Friendship Hermia and Helena In 4.1 Oberon undid the spell and Hermia and Helena fell asleep once they woke up

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    couples but the people that will be the most successful are Demetrius and Helena. In the play‚ Midsummers Night’s Dream‚ a group of young lovers fight over each other for their love. A fairy king competes with his wife for a warrior and another group of people are busy getting a play of Pyramus and Thisby. The couple of Demetrius and Helena will be the most successful couple in this story. One example of how Demetrius and Helena will be the most successful

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    Meanwhile‚ Oberon overhears Demetrius reject Helena and sends Puck (Robin) to anoint Demetrius’s eyes with nectar in hope that he will fall in love with Helena. When Puck goes out to find Demetrius‚ he sees Lysander sleeping with Hermia and thinks its Demetrius and Helena. He then anoints Lysander’s eyes and it all goes downhill from there. When Hermia wakes up‚ she cannot find Lysander because he fell madly in love with Helena and is out chasing her. Then later on when Demetrius falls

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    Midsummer Night’s Dream. In this play we see all types of love‚ from passionate love to foolish love. Along with this we also see different types of lovers and pairs. Examples of these lovers come from pairs like‚ Hermia and Lysander‚ Demetrius and Helena‚ Titana and Bottom‚ and Oberon and Titana. It seems that in A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare shows different types of love and lovers. One love that Shakespeare shows in Midsummer is passion. Passion is a burning emotion‚ a strong feeling

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    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

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    In her soliloquy Helena explains‚ “Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind/And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind” (1.1.234-235). Love isn’t something you can decide. Lust is driven by attraction with the eyes and love is having a deeper emotional connection with someone. Love is irrational‚ it causes you to make choices you may not have otherwise made. Love is blind and makes you see past people’s flaws and appearances. Even when Demetrius shoots her down‚ Helena

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    The passage I chose was from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. In this passage‚ Lysander falls in love with Helena after being accidentally struck with the love juice by Puck. However‚ Helena does not interpret it the same way and thinks that Lysander is mocking her and leaves. Then‚ Lysander says that he never wants to see Hermia again and leaves her alone while she is sleeping. Hermia awakes from a nightmare where her heart was being eaten out by a serpent and Lysander stood‚ smiled

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    fight over Helena‚ whom they both only love because they are under a spell‚ and decreases the amount of love and care the Indian boy gets. Oberon interferes with the lives of Demetrius and Lysander by causing them to stop loving Hermia and begin loving Helena. Oberon does this with the help of Puck ‚ his servant‚ and the love-in-idleness flower‚ which when applied to someone’s eyes makes them fall in love with the first creature they see. Having Demetrius and Lysander fight over Helena does not

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