Theseus And Hippolyt A Life Of Power And Control

The mood immediately changes and we discover that Hermia rather than being filled with filial love is determined to marry Lysander rather than her father’s choice for her. And so the love theme is made more complex as we

Another love that is classified in the play is romantic love in which Hippolyta voices a desire for, or at least an attraction to, the romantic love which Hermia and Helena experience. In response to Theseus’ comment concerning his disbelief in the lovers’ stories, Hippolyta argues, “But all the story of the night told over, / And all their minds transfigured so together, / More witnesseth than fancy’s image, / And grows to something of great constancy” (5.1.23-26). Hippolyta seems to want to believe the lover’s tales; she wants to trust in their romantic notions. In an attempt to persuade Theseus, she uses the rational argument that because all the lovers experience the same transforming power, their experiences do not represent mere figments

Hence, this part of conversation is a microcosm of their unhappy and unhealthy mode of relationship. Theseus would arbitrarily express a personal opinion and impose it on Hippolyta, without considering her protests. According to John Cutis, moreover, the episode of Pyramus and Thisbe acts “as a satirical contrast with the Theseus-Hippolyta relationship, as they are both unable to ‘see the need of poetry’” (Cutis 183). A love life without conflicts, or a life without love, might not prove the happiest— this couple solve their discords with Hippolyta’s absolute obedience and Theseus’ lack of love and consideration. This is why they need no compromise.

There are copious amounts of evidence within this story to support the theme of forbidden love, the theme of love gone wrong, and the theme of unconditional love. The theme of unconditional love is nearly screaming from each line of the play. The audience is made aware of the love between Lysander and Hermia very early on. Hermia’s father wishes her to marry Demetrius and he mentions that she belongs to him and therefor if she doesn’t do as he asks he can have her killed. Despite this Hermia pleads,

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.

In the start of the play, we see a constrained adoration amongst Theseus and Hippolyta the rulers of the Amazons (David Bevington). Theseus notice in act 1 "I charmed thee with my sword (David Bevington), To depict that he won her with his sword as in the fight to win her affection. In Act 5 scene 1, Hippolyta says "My Theseus"(David Bevington), this shows she will wed him. Not certain if both of these characters are truly infatuated or wedding since Theseus has won a fight. All through the story, it appears that His affection for Hippolyta had most likely developed for her and driving them to be hitched, since he

Lysander demonstrates another example of the struggle of a relationship. In Scene 6: Another Part of the Forest a Few Minutes Later,, Hermia is now sans lover due to the fact that Lysander loves Helena at the moment. Lysander claims, “Coward! (to Hermia) Take your hands off me, or I will shake thee from me like a serpent… Thy love? Out loathed medicine! O hated potion, away.” In this scene, Lysander suddenly loves Helena instead of Hermia and Demetrius later in the scene fights with Lysander over Helena. This represents the complication of love because Hermia was the person who was loved by both men and now is totally disregarded in an instant. Clearly, Lysander and Hermia has many complexities throughout their relationship

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.

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream describes an elaborate relationship web between the characters Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius. Complexity of the relationship web between these characters is made even more confusing when you account for the arranged marriage between Hermia and Demetrius despite the relationship being highly one sided. The marriage is arranged by Egeus, Hermia’s father, and enforced by Theseus, the Athenian Duke. Theseus, in his judgement and decision, believes Egeus in what he claims about Lysander bewitching his daughter but also makes the decision in an attempt to show his absolute authority to his subjects and soon to be wife. Theseus, in his issuing of an ultimatum to Hermia, demonstrates his power and control to his soon to be wife Hippolyta.

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the true love between Hermia and Lysander is unstable because of many obstacles. The very first obstacle

Midsummer Night’s Dream is full of love triangles and circles, people falling in and out of love with each other. The play begins with Hippolyta and Theseus preparing for their wedding, a couple whose union is representative of our more violent sides of desires- the violence that links them in love is constantly brought up. There is also Egeus who wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, the law on his side. Egeus is in charge of Hermia’s path, a conflict of love versus law arrises, as Hermia does not wish to abide by her father’s plan for her. Demetrius loves Hermia, but Hermia is in love with Lysander and refuses to marry Demetrius, planning to run away with Lysander and get married outside of Athens (a secret which they disclose to Helena, Hermia’s friend who is in love with Demetrius). Helena, who dreams that Demetrius will fall in love with her all over again, tells Demetrius of Hermia and Lysander’s plans to run away and get married. Demetrius, now knowing this information, follows Hermia and Lysander into the woods, Helena not far behind. Helena 's is met with indifference, as the more she does to show her love to Demetrius, the more he hates her.

The love stories of Renaissance are richly colorful, so Shakespeare used multiple literary techniques to present to the readers a vivid image of true love. Shakespeare applied metaphor in the lines of Lysander. In Act 1, scene 1, Lysander says to Hermia, “The course of love never did run smooth. But either it was different in blood” (Shakespeare 134-135). In this line, the love is like a journey, Lysander thinks loves is rough and thwarted. It is always difficult for couples to marry. Hermia’s father, Egeus, wants Hermia to marry Demetrius but not Lysander. So Lysander thinks Egeus and Demetrius are the obstacles during the journey of love. They let love so difficult. He wants to convince Hermia to run away with him to avoid those obstacles

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 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

The relationship between Theseus and Hippolyta represents ideal, mature love, and contrasts with the other lovers’ relationships with in the play. Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazon, is engaged to Theseus, Athenian duke. Occasionally, they disagree about certain issues, but due to their mature personalities, they are able to confront and resolve their problems. They understand the terms of their relationship, and they know where they stand. Hippolyta is the former leader of the Amazons- a tribe of fierce warrior women whose only connection with men came when it was time to kill or time breed. She is therefore unmoved by Theseus “wooing” her. Their relationship matures throughout the course of the play. At the end of Act 4, as the sun rises,