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Relationships In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Midsummer Night’s Dream is a Shakespearean written play that revolves around relationships and the different types of drama that go along with them. Relationships between teenages now is very much related to this play. In the play Lysander is supposed to marry Hermia but Puck (a fairy) placed a purple rose on Lysander’s forehead causing him to fall in love with Helena. Lysander’s real love is for Hermia but now he is chasing after Helena. All this chaos is causing drama which relates to teenage relationships today.

As teenagers experience stress, hormones and emotions, they begin to think they need to be in a relationship. When teenagers think about relationships they begin to think about sex. Lysander and Hermia’s relationship would be considered a teenage relationship. This is because while they were sleeping in the woods while in separate beds Lysander was wanting to have sex with Hermia. Lysander thought it would be okay do so since they were about to get married anyway. Lysander then got up out of his bed and went over to Hermia’s bed where she was lying there butt naked and then he procceded to grabbed her breast and insisted that they make love. The problem was they were not yet married and Hermia wanted to wait until …show more content…

Helena is head over heels for Demetrius but he does not feel the same way about her. She is constantly stalking and chasing after him while after numerous times of asking her to stop she continues the same behavior. While Helena was chasing Demetrius in the woods Demetrius stopped, turned around and starting begging her to stop she then goes onto say “Yes, but that makes me love you even more. I’m your little dog, Demetrius. The more you beat me, the more I’ll love you. Treat me like you would treat a dog—kick me, hit me, neglect me, try to lose me. Just let me follow behind you, even though I’m not good enough for

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