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Midsummer Night’s Dream is a short story written by William Shakespeare in the mid-1590s. This play, which took place in a four day time period, captures the full extent of Shakespeare's intellectual imagination. This play consists of a large range of major characters, such as Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, Helena, Theseus, Egeus, Hippolyta, Puck, etc. After the elopement of two love struck individuals, Lysander and Hermia, Demetrius and Helena follow them into the forest and a confusion of who-loves-who ensues. In contracting this affair of love, we are also introduced to the relationship between Theseus and Hippolyta, who are able to summarize the relationship of imagination and reason towards the end of the play. Imagination is the point at …show more content…

Their relationship through the play experiences a theme of difficulty, being that Egeus, Hermia’s father, does not wish that she marry Lysander but rather Demetrius. Once Lysander and Hermia elope into the forest, Lysander is soon targeted by Oberon’s love potion and falls in love with Helena. However, as the story proceeds, Oberon’s magic potion is relieved from Lysander’s eyes, and his true love for Hermia returns. Once Lysander awakens and his love for Hermia remains, he must confront Theseus about the chaos that occurred in the forest. He …show more content…

Though previously engaged, Demetrius left Helena once he met Hermia, who is betrothed to Lysander. Helena, who is completely devoted to Demetrius despite his hate for her, never stops trying to win back his love. Because of her lovestruck dedication, she tells Demetrius of the prier couple’s plan to elope and escape Athens. Once Demetrius and Helena enter the forest, Oberon’s mischievous fairies spark confusion in the lives of the lovers. Far into the forest, both, Demetrius and Lysander, are manipulated into loving Helena. Due to Helena’s physical insecurities she is convinced that they are mocking her. Though, once Lysander is relieved from Oberon’s potion, love is put to balance as now Helena and Demetrius are happily in love. Following this Demetrius

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In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia's love triangle with Lysander and Demetrius is a complex interplay of both fate and agency. Throughout the play, Hermia demonstrates a strong sense of agency in shaping her own romantic fate, while also being subject to the whims of fate and the supernatural forces at play. One example of Hermia's agency is her defiance of her father's wishes for her to marry Demetrius. In Act 1, Scene 1, she says, "I do entreat your grace to pardon me. /

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This speech lets the reader know what the intentions of the characters are and the direction the play is going. This speech creates conflict between Hermia’s father and Lysander. This speech also creates conflict between Hermia and her own father. The speech is setting up for multiple conflicts with Hermia, Lysander, Egeus, Theseus, and Demetrus. Lysander states, “There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee;” (I i 161) which means they Lysander and Hermia are planning on getting married against Egeus’ wishes.

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Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream film adaptation creates a fantastical spin on the well-known Shakespeare play. The director is able to create an effective dream-like setting with the use of projections, lighting, and puppetry. From the beginning, there is a sense of wonder created, as without word or introduction, Puck, played by Kathryn Hunter, glides onto stage and lays down on a mattress supported by branches. Puck is then lifted into the air and a large white sheet consumes the stage. Even for those familiar with the play, such as myself, it immediately commands your mind to travel to the dream world Taymor has created.

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Again they are deliriously in love because of the love drug. In the beginning of the play neither of the males want anything to do with Helena, she is blindly chasing after Demetrius desperate for his attention, but he brushes her off. Oberon orders puck to put the spell on Demetrius. “Thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on.” (II, i ln 42 & 43)

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  Lysander compares himself to Demetrius, saying that he is equal to him in every way.   Lysander then points out that he has something Demetrius will never have, Hermia 's love.   He makes it clear that the couple will do anything to be together.   After Egeus denounces his daughter 's chosen love, Hermia and Lysander,

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  In addition, Hermia 's childhood best friend and Demetrius were in love prior to his sights turning towards Hermia.   This crushed Helena, causing her to lose self-confidence, but still: she yearns for Demetrius 's reciprocated love.   Lysander and Hermia are in love with each other.   Egeus does not approve of his daughter 's chosen love.

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With him being busy it can be hard to put all of his attention to her. Helena destroys the close friend that she was with Hermia for true love. She is madly in love with Demetrius and dreams of marrying him. So, she believes that telling Demetrius about Hermia and Lysander running away he will fall for her.

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William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play which emphasises and explores love, free will and liminal dream-like spaces within both a fantasy realm and the real world. Within Act 2 Scene 2 lines 115-160, the Athenian lovers are experiencing a tense shift in dynamics. Lysander has been subjected to a love potion, and is leaving his relationship with Hermia in order to pursue a romance with their friend, Helena. During this passage, Shakespeare explores these key themes, and establishes a tense, uncertain reality, by providing an introduction to the conflict experienced by these characters within the entire text.

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Theseus and Hippolyta wake up Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius because Hermia has to make her final decision. With the love juice on his eyelids still, Demetrius confesses that he no longer loves Hermia and wants Helena to be the love of his life. Theseus overrides Egeus’s wishes, and he says the three couples will have a triple wedding. After Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus leave, all of them are unclear what exactly happened. Helena even says, “And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,/mine own, and not mine own” (4.1.176-177).

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Hermia is in love with Lysander and therefore refuses to marry the man chosen for her by her father, Egeon: Demetrius. In response to this, Egeon brings all three of them and themselves before the king of Athens, threatening Hernia by reminding him that “as she is mine, I may dispose of her; Which shall be either to this gentleman Or to her death, according to our law” (I, i. 42). Despite knowing the dire consequences that come with not obeying her father, Hermia willfully disobeys him any way she cares so deeply for Lysander. After that meeting is adjourned, Hermia and Lysander find themselves alone; then, Lysander asks Hermia to run off to the woods with him so they can be married. In response to this request, Hermia says, “My good Lysander, I swear to thee by Cupid’s strongest bow, In that same place thou hast appointed me, Tomorrow truly will I meet with thee” (I.i.169).

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Leaving Hermia and Lysander to run away in the forest; Lysander then becomes a victim of misapplied magic and wakes up in love with Helena. The trouble comes when Hermia tells her plan to her friend, Helena. Helena loves Demetrius, so she tells him of Hermia and Lysander's idea to run away, and Demetrius follows them, this is where the fairies get involved. “Before the time I did Lysander see / Seem'd Athens as a paradise to me.

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Theseus and Hippolyta wake up Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius because Hermia has to make her final decision. With the love juice on his eyelids still, Demetrius confesses that he no longer loves Hermia and wants Helena to be the love of his life. Theseus overrides Egeus’s wishes, and he says the three couples will have a triple wedding. After Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus leave, all of them are unclear what exactly happened. Helena even says, “And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,/mine own, and not mine own” (4.1.176-177).

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With many of the different scenes throughout the play, the theme of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is that love is difficult. In the play when Hermia 's father tries to tear Hermia and Lysander

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