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Demetrius's Transformation

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Love, False Love, Dream is all a part of the book/play, “Midnight summer Dream” by William Shakespeare. I choose to do Demetrius he was the one who was in love the whole time. Not the whole time with one girl but with two. He was in love with Helena. But Puck put a spell on him so he would stop loving Helena. Demetrius start to love a different girl. But, really inside he love Helena. Puck was the one who put a spell on him. Puck start going crazy and tried to fixed what he has done wrong. He was trying to reverse the spell. After, a couple time Puck got the spell of and after some time, he final get the woman he wants Helena. “Lysander, keep thy Hermia. I will none. If e'er I loved her, all that love is gone.My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourned,And now to Helen is it home returned, There to remain. (3.2.72-76)”. This quote is explaining how Demetrius has been enchanted, which should excuse him. But remember that this will be his second transformation in love. First he loved Helena, then he loved Hermia, and now he loves Helena again. Though we know this last transformation was caused by magic, he was fickle even before being enchanted.
“You do impeach your modesty too much, To leave the city and commit yourself. Into the hands of one that loves you not, To trust the opportunity of night. And the ill counsel of a desert place …show more content…

And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” (1.1.235-241). This quote explain that Helena admits that she loves many of Demetrius's "base and vile" qualities. It seems that love has the capacity to blind us to the truth. This idea comes up again when Titania literally falls in love with bottom a "base and vile"

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