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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then puts the potion in the eyes of the wrong man--Lysander. The potion makes someone fall in love with someone and this has caused anger between Demetrius‚ Helena ‚ Hermia‚ and Lysander. Why was it called a love potion? The potion makes Demetrius fall in love with Helena. But Lysander also has the potion so there is competition between Helena and Hermia. This is because Hermia is betrayed by Lysander but she doesn’t know that it was a love potion that made him fall in love with
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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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Lysander‚ and Helena who is in love with Demetrius. The plot thickens when Hermia is forced by her father‚ Egeus‚ to a loveless marriage with Demetrius. If Hermia chooses not to marry Demetrius‚ she would be killed‚ or forced to become a nun. Not being able to wed the women he is in love with Lysander asks Hermia to run off and elope. Helena‚ who was once engaged to Demetrius‚ was then left in the cold when Demetrius decided to marry Hermia instead. Attempting to win back Demetrius’ love‚ Helena tells him
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way to improve upon the plot‚ with examples such as Helena’s love for Demetrius and Demetrius’s hate for Helena‚ as well as describing the terrible acting of the Mechanicals. Insults are an effective form of comedy for Shakespeare and are seen throughout the play A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Shakespeare uses insult comedy to advance the comedy of his play with Helena and Demetrius. While Helena is madly in love with Demetrius‚ the feeling is certainly not mutual‚ as Demetrius
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