Midsummer Night's Dream Relationships

One of the most popular comedies written by William Shakespeare, an English playwright who created his first play in 1590, is the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. The play tells of the confusion and challenges faced by young lovers who are thwarted by people and circumstances who are determined to destroy their relationship. The play’s focus is on Hermia and Lysander, two people deliriously in love. Yet the course of true love does not run smoothly for these two. Hermia’s father fervently disagrees with the match, Demetrius, a jealous suitor, fights for Hermia’s hand in marriage and the house sprite Robin Goodfellow, a common name in the folklore of the time causes chaos with his mischievous magic. For any daughter the approval and support

From the beginning of the play Egeus had an issue with Hermia and Lysander, he did not agree with the relationship and wanted it to be done with. Egeus is sure that Lysander had tricked Hermia into loving him, “This man hath bewitched the bossom of my child.” (Act I, Scene I, Line 29) Throughout Hermia and Lysander’s relationship, Lysander has done lots of loving things for Hermia, such as sing her song, written poetry for her and given her many meaningful gifts. “Thou, thou Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes, and interchanged love-tokens with my child.” (Act I, Scene I, Line 30-31) These are all the reason why Egeus does not want Hermia to marry Lysander. Another complication in this relationship is when Oberon and Puck start to interfere in their

The use of the fantasy in the form on fairy kingdom is a technique used by Shakespeare to draw in the audience throughout the play. Oberon, Puck and the rest of the fairy kingdom first joined the play in Act II Scene I. By this time Hermia and Lysander had decided to run away to get married where it was legal, Helena had told Demetrius and he had decided to pursue Hermia, which had led all four of the lovers into the woods. Oberon had felt the need to help the lovers out and get them loving the right people after he heard Helena and Demetrius fighting. Oberon got the help of Puck and sent him on the mission to get special flower juice and put it on the lover’s eyes so when they woke up they would see the rightful person and fall in love. “Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew’d thee once. The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid, will make or man or woman madly dote, upon the next live creature it sees.” (Act II, Scene I, Line 169-172) Although at first this had not worked out so well with the lovers falling in love with the wrong person creating massive issues and stop in the relationships, but by the end of the play Oberon and Puck had been able to make all things right in the world again. As well as the fairy kingdom messing with the lovers, one of the lovers himself, Demetrius caused a bit of trouble between