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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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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Night’s Dream”‚ one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies‚ is generally thought of as a comical romance. A very important factor that makes the whole play a comedy‚ is magic‚ which is used to affect the lives of four Athenians: Hermia‚ Lysander‚ Helena and Demetrius. Bottom‚ also a simple human‚ falls victim of the fairies’ mischievous magic. The magic reaches these characters by Puck‚ a naughty fairy‚ and Oberon‚ the king of fairies. Puck decides to cast a spell on Bottom‚ making him grow a donkey
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creates an illusion of a perfect life away from Athens‚ when in reality her actions may bring her to her own downfall. Furthermore‚ Hermia becomes deranged when Lysander rejects her. Hermia starts to swear at Helena when Lysander spurns Hermia’s love and professes his love for Helena: “ O me‚ you juggler‚ you canker-blossom!/ What‚ have you come by night/ And stol’n my love’s heart from him?” (3.2.282-4). Hermia is deeply hurt because of Lysander’s rejection. She bursts into
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William Shakespeare wrote a total of 37 plays‚ one of which was A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Unlike some of his other plays‚ such as Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream is comedic and has a happy ending. Alas‚ Shakespeare can only be so nice. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is full of many burns and insults from one character to another. Shakespeare shows many examples of comedy‚ but a big one is insult comedy‚ of which he shows many examples of within the script. Insult comedy is a form
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