Theme Of Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hermia has been promised to Demetrius by her father; however she is unwilling to marry him as she is in love with Lysander. We are introduced to this theme when they visit Thesus, the figure of authority in the play, who makes it clear that women are not to have their own identity, but instead are

They may have free will at first, but once they fall, they have no control anymore. Hermia understands the aforementioned concept well; she admits it when she says “I know not by what power I am made bold,” (I. i. 61) when she defies her father’s command to marry Demetrius. Hermia has another experience with the loss of free will when Lysander falls for Helena because someone else meddles with his adoration. Her love for Lysander causes her to feel confusion and hurt, while Lysander’s love for Helena causes him to abandon all reason and thought for Hermia’s feelings to chase Helena. Earlier in the book, Hermia and Lysander feel the pull of teenage rebellion together as their love for each other pulls Hermia away from her father. Lysander suggests, “If thou lovest me then, steal forth thy father’s house tomorrow night,” (I. i. 165-166). Together, the two lovers plot to run away together, something Hermia would never do if not for Lysander’s

With this quote Lysander expresses his love towards Hermia, proving he was an honest and faithful man for her. They were so attracted to each other, that they decided to leave their home, Athens and the beloved people they had, as Hermia left her dad, Egeus because he wanted her to marry Demetrius without her will. Because of this, they decided to escape to the forest and get married in Lysander's aunt's house, so they could spend the rest of their lives together.

They deceived them by running away to marry each other, which they were forbidden to do. “Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night;” (I,I,170). Hermia’s father doesn’t wants Hermia to be with Lysander. He wants her to marry Demetrius. Lysander makes a plan to run away and deceive everyone who didn't agree with their relationship. Lysander wants to run away and marry Hermia.

Hermia’s father told his daughter she could marry Demetrius, become a nun, or die. Hermia does not like any of those choices, so rebels against her father and decides to go and marry Lysander, her true lover. Love causes Hermia to choose Lysander, which shows how the human nature of love has controlling powers. However, in the end, Hermia’s father accepts the fact that his daughter has love for Lysander and allows them to marry, but not just because they love each other. The marriage of Hermia and Lysander results from Demetrius falling out of love with Hermia. In Hamlet, Hamlet decides to obey and remain loyal to his father, while in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia decides to go against her father’s requests because of her love for Lysander. While these Shakespearean plays produce two different outcomes between the human nature of love and loyalty, they both show how love controls the loyalty of a person to a loved one.

Shakespeare uses the “doubling theme” between Demetrius and Lysander to relax and entertain the audience.The beginning of the story starts with Egeus, Hermia’s dad, and Theseus, the duke of Athens, talking with Demetrius, Lysander, and Hermia. They discuss how Lysander wooed Hermia unfairly when she was rightfully Demetrius’s. “This man [Lysander] has bewitched the bosom of my child: Thou, thou

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.

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

Vile thing, let loose, or I will shake thee from me like a serpent” (III.ii.43). This show how Lysander is inconsistent with his emotions and leaves the audience curious on who he is going to end up with. With remorse Lysander says, “Content with Hermia! No; I do repent/ The tedious minutes I with her have spent/

Lysander and Hermia also portray true love. Refusing to marry her suitor, Demetrius, she willingly gives up everything and runs away from Athens with her lover, Lysander, “There my Lysander and I shall meet, and thence from Athens turn away our eyes.” In the play within the play, Pyramus and Thisbe also present us with true love. Their situation

In ancient Greece, the father had control over who his daughter had to marry. This is the main conflict in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In this play, William Shakespeare tells us the story of four young Athenians; Hermia, Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius. Although it’s a comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream follows these young adults as they discover that love has the power to build up and tear down.

In the play Hermia and Lysander were madly in love, but Hermia's father Egeus forbidden them from being together. He wanted his daughter to be with Demetrius “ she is mine and i'm giving her to Demetrius,” [Shakespeare 1.1 95 ]. So Hermia and Lysander planned to run away

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

Body Paragraph #1:      A Midsummers Night's Dream by William Shakespeare shows that the results of controlling  another person's actions are abrupt. Egeus is the father of  Hermia. Infact  Egeus starts to tell his daughter Hermia that she is not allowed to marry her true love Lysander, Egeus tells Hermia that she will marry Demetrius if she doesn't Egeus threatens her to be killed. Egeus believes that Hermia will end up marrying Demetrius , but Hermia ends up running away with Lysander. When Hermia is about to go with Lysander, she tells her best friend Helena “Lysander and myself will fly this place( 1.1.208)”.

The two ran in the woods, got lost, and settled down to rest until the morning. Hermia's love was still deep for Lysander, but she was not comfortable sleeping directly next to him. This showed that she still had her morals in tact and she made him sleep further away from her. As morning came, Lysander awoke before Hermia and, abandoned her because he was under the spell. When Hermia woke up and saw that her true love was missing, she quickly went to find him. Hermia never gave up on her love for Lysander. She only wanted him and nothing was going to stop her. Astonishingly she was able to pass all of the obstacles in her way and still retain the love for Lysander.