A Midsummer Night 's Dream By William Shakespeare

In the book, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, Hermia is a strong-willed woman who wants to be free to marry her true love Lysander. She cannot marry him, because her father, Egeus, is making her marry Demetrius. She has two other choices, to either become a nun or die. She is not happy with his decision and feels he is being unfair. Lysander and Hermia plan to run away with each other to escape her father and the Athenian law. Hermia’s friend, Helena, may stop those plans though, because she is in love with Demetrius. She hopes to win Demetrius back by foiling Hermia’s plans. We will hear more about this intriguing story in just a bit. Hermia will make an appearance on the show, Talking with the Athenians, where we will interview her on her ideas of love.

Demetrius and Helena present us with a different type of love, unrequited love. Devoted to Demetrius, Helena willingly gives him her heart, body and soul, just for his attention. But even when he proclaims his feelings for Helena, “I love thee not, therefore pursue me not. Hence get thee gone, and follow me no more!” Helena still refuses to leave him and continues to chase after him. Demetrius and Helena also have a situation of unrequited love. No matter how much Demetrius claims his love for Hermia, she still rejects him, “A privilege – never to see me more. And from thy hated presence part I so, see me no more, whe’r he be dead or no.”

With these features she Helena says that she would attract Demetrius and except him, unlike Hermia who wishes him away. She asks Hermia to teach her the art of her beauty and win the affection of Demetrius heart. The last character that shows jealousy is Hermia. She shows Jealousy when Lysander is spelled, and falls for Helena. While under a spell, Lysander tells Hermia:

Helena believes she is inferior to Demetrius. Helena constantly compares herself to Hermia, since Demetrius and Lysander are in love with Hermia and Helena has no admirers. In Act 3, the four lovers arrive in the woods, since Demetrius chases Hermia and Lysander before they get married. Helena follows, and the four Athenians end up together. A love potion is given to Lysander and Demetrius earlier in the play by a fairy, causing them to love Helena. In a state of confusion, Helena exclaims, “If you were civil and knew courtesy, / You would not do me thus much injury. / Can you not hate me, as I know you do, / But you must join in souls to mock me too?” (3.2.149-52). Helena is aware of the hate people have for her and feels insecure about the men suddenly loving her. Her lack of love convinces her the affection shown cannot be genuine. Helena says to herself “No, no, I am as ugly as a bear; / For beasts that meet me run away for fear: / Therefore no marvel though Demetrius / Do, as a monster fly my presence thus” (2.2.66-70). Helena thinks she is ugly and lesser then the people around her, since Hermia is loved more and Demetrius despises her. The insecurity shown in her demeanor is a large part of Helena’s

In this play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, true love plays a huge role in the play.

The theme of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is that if true happiness, love, and joy is wanted in a relationship, it will take some hard work.

Lysander and Hermia aren’t allowed to be together because of her father Egeus. They follow true love so they find a way to be together, run away from Athens. “I have a widow aunt, a dowager, Of great revenue, and she hath no child. From Athens is her house remote seven leagues, And she respects me as her only son.

Love and reason will never fit together. Nor will love ever be a controllable compulsion. Maybe we are fools for going into the perilous, eccentric universe of love; yet what fun would life be without it? William Shakespeare 's play A Midsummer Night 's Dream investigates the unconventional, unreasonable and unpredictable nature of love during his time. Shakespeare conveys this through the main plot of the play, which is composed of the relationships between three couples. The three couples show examples of three different types of love; Hermia and Lysander’s true love, the unrequited love of Helena for Demetrius and the red hot relations of Oberon and Titania which all give an insight into the nature of love during Shakespeare’s time.

In A Midsummer's Night, by William Shakespeare, various characters fall in love, or believe they are in love, because of the actions of others. The play portrays the narrative that love is crazy, and makes people do crazy things. Even though someone may attempt to control another’s relationship, there is always a higher power influencing love. In the end, true love comes when lovers are destined to be together. This is demonstrated in the relationship between Hermia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius, and Oberon and Titania. In all of these relationships, the couples are challenged, but yet find a way to be together.

And yet Hermia knows love sometimes seems doomed, even if it's not actually doomed. Consequently, Hermia holds onto her love no matter the circumstances or consequences, even after Lysander has deserted her. This proves Hermis is the protagonist of the story, even after facing all these problems, she doesnt run away, curse Lysander instead stays by his side and carries out the moral of the story, never give up on the people you love.

In this turn of events would Lysander may find another of return love for Helena, though at Lysander’s aunts house, Hermia and Lysander will be happy together and hopefully live happily every after. However, the Duke of Athens (Theseus) with the father’s

Due to the drink, Demetrius and Lysander both confess their love to Helena but the long speech was meant for Hermia. After fierce argument between the three, Helena runs into Hermia’s room. Demetrius and Lysander follow her in, still confessing their love and see Hermia. They believe Hermia to be Helena and when she asks Lysander why he doesn’t love her any more, Lysander responds that he never did. Hermia becomes furious at Helena for stealing away Lysander’s love, but all Helena believes it to be is everyone making fun of her. The women begin to cry but eventually fall

In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare, Hermia, the daughter of Egeus, is in love with a man named Lysander. Hermia’s father Egeus wants Hermia to be married to a man named Demetrius, not Lysander. When Egeus finds out his daughter Hermia is dating Lysander, he becomes very upset and goes to Theseus, the king of Athens, and asks him to enforce his consent of whom his daughter is to marry. After hearing Egeus’ complaints, Theseus tells Hermia she must obey her father. After Hermia refuses to comply with her father’s wish, Theseus presents Hermia with a choice of obeying her father and marrying Demetrius, enduring the livery of a nun and never be married, or to be sentenced to death. Theseus tells Hermia she must have an

Hermia is considered to be a young woman. She is the daughter of Egeus, but she is thought to be very disobedient of him and a fool when it comes to love. Hermia is in love with a man who goes by the name of Lysander. She wants nothing more than to be with him, but she can’t because of her father. Egeus wisher her to marry a different man named Demetrius. Due to Hermia’s disobedience to her father about not wanting to be with Demetrius, Egeus complains to Duke Theseus where she is given the option to either marry Demetrius or be sentenced to death. Eventually Hermia decides to run away with Lysander who, under a love potion, falls in love with another woman named Helena. Throughout this play Hermia has to learn how to deal with the way love

The theme in A Midsummer Night's Dream is love, something which Shakespeare shows constantly in his comedies. Shakespeare shows how people tend to fall in love with those who appear beautiful to them. People we think we love at one time in our lives can later seem not only unattractive but even repellent, but one of the ideas of the play is that real love is much more than mere physical attraction. The Play of the four young Athenians shows that although "The course of true love never did run smooth," this shows that Shakespeare was a romantic and that true love is really shown in the end even though of all the sceptic things he does in the play.