A Midsummer Night's Dream Quote Analysis

“You are one of a kind and unique. Never forget that.” (Richard Simmons) The truth in this quote is real. If one were all the same, which we are not, we would be all but a robot which is organized in a way for all to be functioning in a specific standard. This does not mean everyone is different in every way. It means simply everyone has at least something singling them out, to make them only human. The play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, centers on four lovers: Demetrius, Lysander, Helena and Hermia. Due to her father’s harsh ways, Hermia chooses to elope with her lover, Lysander, but when outside factors become involved, this elopement goes off track. While in the woods, three different groups of people meet up in separate

They have grown up well-off if not the difference in family treatment. “Thanks, good Egeus…” (Act l. Sc. 1, ll. 22) This is one of the lines from Theseus’ mouth during Egeus and Hermia’s argument. This line proves Egeus’ wealth and importance in society, being able to obtain the Duke’s attention and knowledge of his character without an introduction. In the time this play was written, in England, there surely would have been a hierarchy, and to have the Duke as audience for a personal complaint, one can infer this man has power. The same case can be argued for Helena when Lysander refers to her, “Demetrius, I’ll avouch it to his head, Made love to Nedar’s daughter, Helena…” (Act l. Sc 1, ll. 108) The man Nedar appears by reference only but knowing the hierarchy in the time, to have recognition and to marry a wealthy woman, the man would most likely be wealthy as well, proving of Demetrius’ wealth. The same applies to Helena, having an affair with a man with as much name as Demetrius, she surely must’ve been well-off herself. “I must confess that I have heard so much,” (Act l. Sc 1, ll. 113) This is yet another line by Theseus to prove her wealth. To have caught the ear of the Duke himself, and for him to remember and know of such a person, makes another point she must be a family of high-rank. This similarity between them, being both daughter of a good family, and around the same years

One of them being their appearance. Helena, at one point, comments on Hermia’s traits, “Your eyes are lodestars and your tongue’s sweet air More tunable than lark to shepherd’s ear…My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye; My tongue should catch your tongue’s sweet melody. Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated, The rest I’d give to be to you translated.” (Act l. Sc 1, ll. 186) This shows her jealousy of Hermia’s beauty, expressing how wonderful Hermia seems to her, how she, so badly, wants to be like her. To want to be like someone shows she was not like the other person, particularly in the way one would want. This represents a contrast in appearances, particularly in Helena’s eyes. Furthermore, in comparing height, Hermia is different. She herself had angrily exclaimed on this point, “Between our statures; she hath urged her height, And with her personage, her tall personage...How low am I,” (Act lll. Sc 2, II. 1317) In this, she explains how contrasting their heights are, Helena being tall, while she was short, or in her words, low. By beauty, by height, they are shown as different in both. Not to say, one is more beautiful than the other, just to mean, one had appearances preferred from these men than the