Lysander: Eulogy For Father

I want my daughter[hermia] to marry Dermitrius because I want her life to be filled with:comfort,luxuries,happiness and mainly TRUSTWORTHINESS!Dermitrius is loyal,as he asked ME first about marriage,wheras Lysander stole Hermia's heart.There is a major chance Lysander could spoil my daughter's life.As a result,Demetrius is highly qualified for being the perfect life partner for Hermia.

7. What is Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena? What does this say about

i do wish it, love it, long for it.” (1.1.82) showing that he didn’t have a choice on who he loved. However, while it may have been fate for Demetrius, it was agency for the rest of the characters. And even

I’m hither, with abhor, to complain about mine daughter Hermia. My lord, this sir, Demetrius, hath mine permission to marry that lady. Step forward, Lysander. —But this other sir, Lysander, hath cast a magic spell ov'r mine child’s heart. You, thee, Lysander, you’ve given that lady poems, and switch thy love with mine daughter. You’ve connived to steal mine daughter’s heart, making that lady stubborn and harsh instead of obedient, I asketh thee to alloweth me exercise the right that all fathers has't in Athens. Since the lady belongs to me, I can doth what I want with her, as the law says: I can either maketh that lady marry Demetrius—or hath that lady killed.

The maiden also claims she’d rather die a virgin than marry Demetrius, expressing great loyalty to Lysander. Although their love may be difficult, Hermia’s devotion breaks through all obstacles. Meanwhile, Helena’s heart still belongs to Demetrius, who made love to her once before. Demetrius’ sudden change

Lysander: Her father loves you, Demetrius. Let me have Hermia’s love, and you marry her father.

Lysander comes up with a plan to leave Athens, where the Athenian Law does not matter, and marry Hermia. Hermia is okay with this because she will do anything for Lysander. Hermia is willing to disobey her father Egeus and leave Athens with Lysander and get married. Hermia chose to marry Lysander, knowing the consequences of her actions. “Whether, if you yield not to your father’s choice, you can endure the livery of a nun, for I to be in a shady cloister mewed, to live a barren sister all of your life”(1.1.72-75).

The love that Lysander and Hermia share is very unlike the relationship between Helena and Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia have loved each other for a very long period of time and have dreamed of getting married. However, Hermia’s father, Egeus, disapproves of this couple. Hermia and Lysander’s love for each other is tested when Egeus tries to shatter their relationship

Does Lysander love me anymore? In an attempt to escape Hermia’s duties as a daughter and a woman, Lysander composes the idea of running away into the forest where his aunt lives while being unaware of the effects it may have on his relationship with Hermia as well as their trust for one another. Living so close to the forest allows not only Hermia and Lysander to escape from their problems but as well as the Athenian people looking to commit a crime or freely express themselves. In the Discussion of Egeus marriage arrangement, Lysander gives Hermia immense confidence for a marriage in the forest assuring her “I could marry you there, gentle Hermia, where the strict laws of Athens can’t touch us.”(I.i.ll 160-1) referring to the strict laws of Athens shows the tremendous lack of freedom towards the citizens of Athens especially women forced into marriage. Agreeing with this plan causes a ray of happiness towards Hermia allowing her to share the secret with her lifelong friend Helena soon revealing her plans to Demetrius, her true love, overflowing him with determination to find Hermia before marrying Lysander. As the four lovers scavage through the forest on the hunt for their cravings disaster strikes as a fairy servant is sent to withdraw the love for Hermia from Demetrius into Helena causing a catastrophic change of fate among Lysander and Hermia. As Lysander walks up with the essence of the flower of love on his eyelids to the presence of Helena in front of him, shapes true love into an illusion. The confrontation of disbelief from Hermia assures she feels “Can you hurt me any more than by saying you hate me? Hate me? Why? What’s happened to you, my love? Am I not Hermia? Aren’t you Lysander?...you still loved me when we fell asleep, but when you woke up you left

In reviewing the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” written by William Shakespeare, I chose to discuss question number 1, The “law of the father” in Athenian society. During this time, it was common for the fathers to choose who would marry their daughters, which was the law in Athenian society. In the case of the play, Egeus chose for his daughter Hermia to marry Demetrius, but Hermia was in love with Lysander (Bevington, 2014). Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius, so Egeus goes to speak with Theseus, the Duke of Athens to have her prosecuted to the fullest due to her disobedience If Hermia does not marry Demetrius, Theseus tells Hermia “Either to die the death or to abjure, forever the society of men” (Midsummer, Act 1 Line 65 and 66). This

Hermia on the other hand, believes that she should be able to marry who she wants to. Egeus, Hermia’s father, asks for, “the ancient privilege of Athens” (1.1.42) which is for him to have the ability to either kill her, or to marry her off to who he deems fit to have her. Egues believes that, “As she is mine, I may dispose of her, Which shall be either to this gentleman Or to her death” (1.1.43-45), which demonstrates that he thinks she is entirely his. In addition, he gives his word to Demetrius that, “she is mine, and all my right of her I do estate unto Demetrius” (1.1.99-100), which creates the first conflict of the play. Hermia must become wedded to Demetrius, become a nun, or become slain. Hermia believes that she can’t marry Demetrius, which is an action of disobedience. She is convinced that Lysander is just as good of a potential husband as Demetrius, “Demetrius is a worthy gentleman,’ ‘So is Lysander” (1.1.53-54), and that she can’t marry Demetrius because she refuses to give up her virginity and sovereignty to a man she doesn’t love. The bond between Egeus and Hermia will take a long time to recover as both are at different ends of to who Hermia should

He thought that marrying Demetrius would make her life better for her and told her I am your father and by law, you must obey me. So, either you marry Demetrius, or I will have to kill you” (Shakespeare, 2005, P.

Egeus, an Athenian noble, desires his daughter, Hermia, to “consent to marry with Demetrius”(1.1.40), the suitor of his choice. Hermia “refuses to wed Demetrius”(1.1.64) and wishes to marry another man, Lysander. Egeus exercises complete control over his daughter’s life. He considers her his property, as he says, “she is mine, I may dispose of her”(1.1.42). Hermia’s only choices are to marry Demetrius, “to death, or to a vow of

In A Midsummer’s Night Dream, written in the year 1600, one of the main conflicts of the play is a result of the unhappiness that results from a forced marriage. The surmised engagement is between the fairest women in all of Athens, Hermia, and the handsome and affluent, Demetrius. Demetrius is the man who gained Hermia’s father’s permission to marry her, but simultaneously not winning her affections, ‘’Ere I will my virgin patent up Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke My soul consents not to give sovereignty’’ (Shakespeare I.I.80-83). Because Hermia was willing to disobey her father (a true crime considering in the year 1600, women were considered the property of men), and refuse to marry Demetrius, she said that she would rather become a nun than marry him. Despite Demetrius being well off, and charming, Hermia could not help but to fall in love with an equally derived man, whose only fault was not having her father’s consent: Lysander. Although in Athens in the year 1600, a forced marriage would be seen as the elitist societal norm, in today 's Western culture, this is considered a violation of one’s freedoms and rights. While some people may choose to continue their cultural traditions to have their marriages arranged for them, or rather just be rid of the stress to find the perfect compatible partner, both parties of the people

In the play the reader gets the truth that Hermia’s father wants her to marry Demetrius, and as a woman living in a patriarchal society, she must obey; at least that is what the reader is lead to believe. Hermia takes a stand for herself and becomes powerless in her love for Lysander. With no reasonable explanation, besides her love for Lysander, she defiantly denies her father’s attempt for an arranged marriage. Since their love for each other is so immense, they prepare for the underlying bad circumstances they are going to suffer from for not obeying the wishes of her father. Hermia’s love for Lysander means so much more to her than the property or social placeholder she would gain by marrying Demetrius. Hermia dedicates herself to Lysander, saying he is worthy of the ultimate consummation of her love. She must convince her father that Demetrius is disgraceful and immoral. At the end of the play, Hermia and Lysander are eloped, and unlike Katherine and Petruccio in TOS, they demonstrate their dedication for each other from the beginning, disregarding a few