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What Are Gender Roles In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play written by the talented William Shakespeare. This play focuses on love and gender roles. The lovers are Hermia, Helena, Lysander and Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander are in love but Hermia’s father, Egeus does not condone their marriage. Helena is Hermia’s best friend and in love with Demetrius. However, Demetrius does not feel the same, for he is in love with Hermia. Egeus wants Demetrius and Hermia to wed and to escape this, Hermia and Lysander flee into the woods to elope in a different town. Demetrius follows Hermia and Lysander with Helena in tow. Then a group of six actors plan to rehearse what they are to perform at the duke’s wedding. Oberon and his wife Titania, king and queen of the fairies are fighting over who get to keep a baby that Titania …show more content…

Oberon, mad at Titania sends his servant Puck to pour a love potion on her eyes so that when she wakes up, she will fall in love with the first person she sees. Puck is very mischievous so he also pours the juice on Lysander and Demetrius’s eyes and they both wake up to see Helena. Hermia is then left alone because no man loves her anymore. After the mess of love happens, Oberon orders Puck to put an antidote on Lysander and he resumes his love with Hermia. Puck sees one of the actors named Bottom and he wants to play a trick on him so he turns his head into that of a donkey. Titania wakes up and sees Bottom and falls in love with him. After Oberon has had enough of his fun, he makes Titania fall back in love with him. Toward the end of the play, the duke Theseus, commands Egeus to let Hermia and Lysander marry. Helena and Demetrius are in love but the play doesn’t explicitly state that they get married but it can be inferred. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a web of lies and love but it shows that in the end, things might work

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Hermia and Helena fall asleep and Lysander and Demetrius start fighting and chasing after each other. Puck taunts Lysander and Demetrius to keep them moving until they both get tired and fall asleep so Puck can remove the love spell. Puck lifts that spell off Lysander but keeps the spell on Demetrius loves Helena. At the end of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, there is a triple wedding and everyone is happy except Hermia’s father, Egeus. Egeus doesn’t like that Hermia got to marry Lysander when he chose who Hemia had to marry

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In Saudi Arabia, women recently have become identified as mammals, granting them the same rights as other mammal species such as camels and goats while male Saudi Arabians have had much more power and rights for many years prior. For centuries, societies all around the world have held women to different standards than their male counterparts. William Shakespeare’s plays show these differences in standards. He puts great emphasis on the differences between men and women and how that affects the ways in which each gender carries out their lives. In one of Shakespeare’s pieces, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a sort of “love square” consisting of Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, and Lysander creates friction between the four, and is a great example of the gender stereotypes Shakespeare puts in his work.

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When people normally think of love, they probably think of butterflies in the stomach, mushy gushy feeling, and everything being perfect. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, love is represented in completely different ways. Four of the main women are all in relationships, but they all represent a different type of love.

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Ajda argues that Shakespeare's female characters, including those in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," challenge the restrictive female rights by all means of marriage of the time. She contends that these characters provide a lens through which to examine the social dynamics and evolving women's rights during the Elizabethan era. Hermia, a strong and independent young woman, challenges her traditional expectations of marrying her suitor Demetrius, whom her father Egeus has chosen as the best suitable man for her. Hermia's refusal to comply with her father's wishes demonstrates the conflict between her personal desires and societal pressures. She affirms her agency and fights for her right to choose a partner, even if it means fatal consequences.

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