Helena

Dream portray love? Does Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream portray love accurately? In his comedy, Shakespeare creates five main couples: Titania and Bottom, Titania and Oberon, Theseus and Hippolyta, Lysander and Hermia, and Demetrius and Helena. Of these couples, the majority are impacted in some way by a flower Oberon and his magical mischief-making assistant Puck find that makes a person fall in love with the first organism they see (II, II, 248-268). This is an inaccurate portrayal of

by William Shakespeare, who also made other comedies and tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet and All’s Well That Ends Well. Helena obsesses over Demetrius like Hermia obsesses over Lysander, except Demetrius does not love Helena. Helena chases Demetrius around endlessly hoping and crying that he would love her. Demetrius does not like this and tries to get away but Helena does not give up. “You’re risking your reputation by leaving the city and stalking someone who doesn’t love you. Standing around

Without the distinction between these lovers, William Shakespeare sends a distinct message about young love. Both female lovers, Helena and Hermia, feel the loss of their male companions love at one point within the comedy. In the beginning Demetrius cannot stand the sight of Helena. To prove his hatred he says, “I love thee not, therefore pursue me not fair Helena”(II.i.173). Accordingly Lysander ,further into the play, loses his love for Hermia. To her he says “Ay, by my life, find never did

Hermia and Helena because both represent the difficulties of adolescent love. But these two young women are more different than their male counterparts, Lysander and Demetrius, who are, indeed, indistinguishable. A man named Demetrius asks Hermia's father, Egeus, for her hand in marriage. Only Hermia, beautiful, desirable, and young, loves another: Lysander. He knows Egeus approves of him, and he intends to marry Hermia whether she likes it or not. In the beginning of the play Helena is introduced

In A Midsummers Night Dream, by William Shakespeare the biggest comparison you have to decipher is the difference between real life and fantasy. The role of magic is used in the play to help the mortals find love because in this play love is expressed so no mortal knows how strong love's effects has on someone. Love goes past the comprehension of a human being and that is where fantasy comes into play with the fairies. They are here to show how magic and love become one thing. In act 1 in A Midsummers

to make small decisions that may end up being the biggest mistake of their life. In the book A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare exposes the great emotions of love and friendship contrasted.The characters in this comedy, essentially Hermia and Helena, all experience this same difficulty throughout the novel. Many of the characters have to make a simple decision that will end up drastically affecting the stories ending, no matter what they determine is the best response. Hermia and Helena's choices

play for the Duke, fairies in the forest and four Athenian lovers. This different groups of characters’ lives become entwined from the magic of the fairies. Shakespeare succeeds to show the strengths and flaws of human behavior through Nick Bottom, Helena and Lysander. The characters show the flaws of cockiness, selfishness, continuous complaint, disloyalty and aggression. On the other hand, the characters are also shown to have the human strengths of problem solving, persistence, loyalty and comforting

him fall in love with Helena, forgetting Hermia. This causes problems because Hermia is still in love with Lysander and Demetrius is in love with Hermia. Like every protagonist, Puck fixes his mistakes and makes everything rights again. He does this by putting the love potion on Demetrius’ eyes and he then falls in love with Helena. He chases

way. Magic effects three pairs of people: Hermia and Lysander, Hermia and Helena, and Titania and Oberon. Cupid’s Flower, a magical love potion, instigates many quarrels and brings relationships almost to an end. Hermia and Lysander are deeply in love, however Cupid’s flower is spread over Lysander’s eyes and he falls in love with Hermia’s best friend, Helena. Another relationship is deeply affected because Hermia accuses Helena of stealing her man. This is where the idea of “perception vs. reality”

with Helena. The reason Oberon told him to do this is because he wanted to help them be happy and he felt sorry for Helena. But Puck got the two couples mixed up and instead of pouring the juice on Demetrius’s eyes he poured it on Lysander’s eyes and this made him fall in love with Helena, rather than the girl (Hermia) he was running away with. In case I didn't make this clear enough for you, the couples are Lysander and Hermia, and Demetrius and Helena.