How far would you go for love? These ultimatums are used throughout many stories. Shakespeare writes many stories that have characters who are willing to do almost anything for love. Most of his characters believe they are truly in love and will try almost anything to receive love. In a A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare portrays Egues, Helena, and Demetrius to be willing to do anything for love.
Shakespeare portrays Helena as being someone who is desperate, naive, and deplorable for love. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream the author states, “I am your spaniel, and Demetrius, the more you beat me I will fawn on you.” (Shakespeare 49) Helena is told numerous times that Demetrius is not fond of her, but she will not give up on making him love her. After Demetrius told her how he felt, he threatened to
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He is being keen as he says, “And here am ,and wood within this wood, because I can’t meet my Hermia.” (Shakespeare 47) Demetrius is willing to leave his home to go into the woods, to win over Hermia’s love. This causes Helena to follow him and create many problems throughout the woods. As the story goes on He begins to show signs of being dawdle: “So sorrow’s heaviness doth heavier grow, for debt that bankrout doth sorrow owe.” (Shakespeare 89) Demetrius gets to the point where he just wants to waste time. The way he was treated for loving Hermia made him upset and just wanted to sleep. The last piece of evidence towards the comment, “He is willing to do anything for love.”, is being boorish: “I’ll run from thee and hide me in the brakes, and leave thee to the mercy of the wild beast.” (Shakespeare 49) After he attempted to win over Hermia, he began to be brusque to others in the woods. One of the main victims of Demetrius’ harshness is Helena. Demetrius can be connected with being willing to do anything for love due to the reasons listed