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Falling in love, being tricked, and following your heart are all important parts to A Midsummer’s Night Dream by Shakespeare. Throughout A Midsummer’s Night Dream there are many characters that face the struggles of love. Lysander is one who shows his challenges through love, and believes it will work out. He is always willing to do whatever he can in order to show his love. During this, Lysander shows his love to not one, but two women eventually learning his love was forced. Lysander shows his love is evident through overcoming many obstacles and never giving up on what he wants. Life and love has many obstacles to overcome, and Lysander knows overcoming them leads to a successful relationship. Lysander expresses that love has obstacles many times throughout A Midsummer’s Night Dream. One quote of Lysander’s that represents this is, “Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth” (1.1.134-136). This is said right at the beginning of the play when Lysander …show more content…

Lysander loves Hermia at the beginning, and they come up with a plan to leave together. In that process Lysander gets love juice on his eye ad wake up to see Helena first. He then grows love for Helena, but he eventually receives an antidote that removes the love juice. Lysander says this right after he received the love juice, “Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose, Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent. Thy love? Out, tawny Tartar, out! Out, loathèd med'cine! O. hated potion, hence!” (3.2.270-275). Here Lysander is saying he doesn’t like Hermia anymore, and he likes Helena. Right before this he just loved Hermia, and now he loves Helena. As a result of all of this Lysander’s love ends up with Hermia. Throughout all of this, Lysander finds love in the one he loved since the

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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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Demetrius wants to win Hermia from Lysander when he tells Lysander to “yield thy crazed title to my certain right.” (Shakespeare 1.1.93-94) This exemplifies that Demetrius is attempting to control both Lysander and Hermia in this scene. He knows that he can not alter Lysanders mind, so he

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Hermia thinks that Helena is responsible for Lysander’s actions. Because of this, Hermia and Helena blame each other and begin to believe that they’re playing cruel jokes. Helena vocalizes to Hermia, “I will not trust you, I, Nor longer stay in your trust company” (3.2.341-342). We can infer that Helena feels this way because of the claims Hermia made about her previously. In brief, Helena and Hermia struggle with conflict because of the disturbance magic causes.

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In our scene, lines 42-179 of Act One, Scene One, the characters who try to force love upon others are seen antagonistically, while Hermia and Lysander, who strive for true, naturally occurring love, are seen as protagonists whose love should be defended. The overlying message of the play is that love should not and cannot be forced. Theseus, Egeus, and Demetrius use their power, both as nobles and men, to try and force Hermia into marrying Demetrius. Egeus, in an attempt to bully Hermia into marrying Demetrius says, ‘‘‘She is mine, and all my right of her I do estate unto Demetrius’’’ (1.1.97-98). He sees his power as Hermia’s father as a way to force her into a marriage that will benefit him.

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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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“Beteem” implicits that Hermia is allowing her tears to flow, because she wants to show how inconsolable she is not going to be marrying Lysander. Furthermore, it shows that how Hermia and Lysander’s love is extremely vehement and they love each other, because Hermia is allowing her tears to drip and not wipe them to show how much Hermia loves Lysander and that Hermia is forced to marry Demetrius. Explore the relationship/love of Titania and Oberon presented in A2S1: In act two scene one, Shakespeare shows Titania and Oberon’s love as Destructive love. Titania and Oberon’s conflict as implacable and how Oberon feels jealous. Firstly, Oberon and Titania encountered each other then they start arguing; Oberon was vexed and later stated: “Tarry, rash wanton!

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