A Midsummer Night's Dream Research Paper

Anyone can have affection towards anyone at any time. Love is unexpected. This quote is important because it illustrates the theme of love. This quote is later presented in the woods by having Lysander and Demetrius switch their passion from Hermia to Helena. It gives us an understanding of how Lysanders love for Hermia ends quickly with a drop of magic love juice.

When the love potion was put on Lysander he had no feelings for Hermia but she still stayed true to him. Oberon wants to get involved in everybody's love life and Puck his sidekick puts the love potion on the wrong Athenian man and the love quadrilateral get confusing. Lysander said “ She doesn’t see Hermia- Hermia keep sleeping and do not come near me ever again! Eating too many sweets make people sick to their stomachs and people always hates mistakes they made in the past worse than anyone else hates those mistakes. Hermia, you're the sweet I’ve had too much of and the mistake I used to make so I hate you more than anyone else does.-I’ll use all my talents and efforts to serve Helena and bring her honor.” (Shakespeare.2.2.59-61.) Hermia

Lysander can be seen as a victim of love, though the fact that he is forced to love Helena, because of the flower juice placed in his eyes, even though he loves Hermia. One example of this can be seen through the line “And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake. Transparent Helena! Nature shows, art, That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.” (Shakespeare 2.2 103-105) This line is from when he is first affected by the love potion, and it makes

Titania then had the Indian Boy, but gave it to Oberon when he asked. Since Oberon now has what he wanted all along he feels bad for making Titania fall in love with the repulsive, Nick Bottom. After analyzing and annotating this monologue from Act 4 Scene 1, I was led to

Love is all he thinks life is now that he’s found her. Now that he’s all over Helena, he’s screwed it all up. None of the other characters know that love-in-idleness is in play here and it looks as though he’s been lying to Hermia the whole time. Since Lysander has acted so in love with Hermia, his behavior after the prank is completely out of character. “Hang off, thou cat, thou burr!

The book has some moments when things went well for the characters after they sought to control someone. Oberon and Titania had been fighting for a while and part of the reason was because Titania wouldn’t give him the changeling boy. “ I then did ask of her, her changeling child which straight she gave me.” Oberon is now satisfied because after putting the potion in Titania’s eyes, she gave him the changeling child with no hesitation. Still in the end section of the play, things are finally coming to good terms, for one the lovers are getting married. “ Sing and dance trippingly… will we sing and bless this place.” This is the scene where they are celebrating due to the success of getting the couples together.Which included controlling Lysander to get him to love Hermia again. As you read A Midsummer Night's Dream, you might notice that there are more downfalls than victories when it comes to control. Although some might look at the broad picture being drawn, if you dig deeper you will notice that Shakespeare makes known that controlling isn’t possible. Even though in the play Oberon seemed to have it his way, in reality things don’t always turnout that way, especially when dealing with

Oberon says “When I have the juice of that flower, I’ll trickle some drops of it in on Titania eyes while she’s while she is sleeping. She’ll fall madly in love with the first thing she sees when she wakes up-- even if its a lion, a bear, a wolf, a bull, a monkey, or an ape.” Oberon came up with a plan, he decided to make his wife fall in love with an ugly and disgusting animal or beast just so he could get revenge and get the small Indian boy from Titania. Oberon is willing to hurt his wife just to get his way and what he wants. In the end, he did get the Indian boy, but he and his wife also reconnected, he did not expect this nor wanted it to happen.

Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena were good friends with each other. However, because of their blind love, they had a quarrel caused by jealousy. For example Lysander and Demetrius, because they loved Hermia at the same time, just kept arguing with and insulting each other even though they were good friends before. Demetrius said, “Relent, sweet Hermia, and Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right.” But Lysander answered, “You have her father’s love, Demetrius. Let me have Hermia’s; do you marry him.” (1.1.91-94) Love was predominant over friendship, showing they were socially blinded by

Critics would opine that Oberon loved Titania, and became jealous when she spent more time with the changeling boy than she did with him. Evidence suggests, however, that Oberon’s jealousy was based more on his controlling nature than his love for Titania; it appears that Oberon was more jealous of the fact that Titania wouldn’t submit to his demands, and unlike him, had a righteous reason for wanting to keep the

Despite the obvious conflict between the pair of families, Shakespeare still shows conflict through other ways. Capulet argues with his daughter Juliet over her refusal to marry Paris, for example. Of course, there are other themes included within the play, and these often inter-relate or contrast with the prevailing theme of conflict. For example, there is a relatively strong theme of love, mostly between Romeo and Juliet, however this is affected by the conflict between Capulet & Juliet and Romeo & Tybalt amongst others, making Romeo and Juliet relationship a struggle; this is vital to the play’s storyline. So therefore, without this element of conflict, the storyline is less effective.

Hermia’s love for Lysander can be seen as genuine as she states ‘I would my father looked but with my eyes’ which means she wishes her father could see Lysander the way she does. This suggests that she is not under his spell as she truly sees him with her own eyes, and loves him. The audience also sees that she is very passionate about Lysander, as she chooses to ‘yield my virgin patent up’ and live the life of a nun or die rather than ‘wed Demetrius’. We also see the love between Lysander and Hermia is genuine later in Act 1 Scene 1 when ‘Exeunt all but Lysander and Hermia’, as it appears that Lysander is finishing Hermia’s sentences, indicating they are very familiar with each other, and he is comforting her lovingly. Lysander also states ‘true love never did run smooth’ which suggests they truly believe what they feel is true love. Another technique used by Shakespeare to emphasise their love is vivid imagery. Hermia’s speech declaring that she would meet Lysander in ‘the wood’ is filled with imagery suggesting love and passion, such as ‘by Cupid’s strongest bow’ and her reference to the Greek Goddess Venus: ‘By the simplicity of Venus’ doves’, emphasises her passion for Lysander.

When Lysander falls under the love potion's influence, he abandons Hermia, leaving her alone in the forest. When she wakes, she cries, "Lysander, look how I do quake with fear. Methought a serpent eat my heart away, and you sat smiling at his cruel pray." She is unaware of Lysander's departure, and her former lover is now pursuing another girl. Through the metaphor of a serpent eating her heart, Shakespeare shows the audience that young love can lead to heartbreak. Another example of this idea comes earlier in the story, when the four lovers are still in Athens. Hermia finds herself in a conversation with a distraught Helena, who complains, "O, teach me how you look and with what art you sway the motion of Demetrius' heart." It's clear through this statement and the rest of the scene that Helena is experiencing a lot of emotional pain from Demetrius' rejection. All throughout the play, Shakespeare constantly reminds us of the pain of young

Whilst she is sleeping, Oberon has a potion put into Titania’s eyes. As soon as Titania awakes, she is greeted by Bottom. Titania speaks: “Mine ear is much enamored of thy note. // So is mine eye enthrallèd to thy shape. //

Above all the tensions created by the discussion of marriage, Lysander deliver a quotes to his love Hermia. “The course of true love never did run smooth…” (Act 1, Scene 1, line 134) is a famous quote by Lysander. In the quote he conveys to readers that love is not perfect, it also has its ups and downs and that he and Hermia are going through a tough situation. Hermia and Lysander both love each other and have made a plan to meet in a forest and then escape Athens however the problem arises when Hermia has tells Helena this and she plans to tell Demetrius about this so that he will love her and not Hermia. The King of fairies− Oberon hears all this and decides to settle the dispute between all of them. He instructs his assistant Robin Goodfellow to search for Demetrius and put the love juice on his eyelids so that he is compelled to love Helena, he informs him about the dressing style of Demetrius in "thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on" (Act 2, Scene 1, line 263-264). However there is a problem, in the forest there are two Athenian men dressed in Athenian garments and their identities were mistaken; instead of putting the love juice on Demetrius's eyelids Robin Goodfellow put it on Lysander's eyelids. Now Lysander "loves" Helena and wants to get away from Hermia. After discovering Robin Goodfellow's mistake, Oberon tries to correct this mistake by putting the same love juice in Demetrius's so that he loves Helena eyes however

Two determined men willing to do anything to get the one they love. In the comedy A Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare two men named Lysander and Demetrius fight for the one they love. Demetrius has consent to marry the one he loves Hermia, but she loves Lysander. During all this another woman named Helena is madly in love with Demetrius. Helena finds out she will die if she will not marry Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander run away through a forest with Demetrious looking for them, and Helena following Demetrious. Lysander and Demetrius are similar in their love for hermia but have different women love them. In today's world Demetrius would do better because he follows the rules, and is more skeptical than lysander.