Character Analysis Of Theseus And Lysander

The love that Lysander and Hermia share is very unlike the relationship between Helena and Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia have loved each other for a very long period of time and have dreamed of getting married. However, Hermia’s father, Egeus, disapproves of this couple. Hermia and Lysander’s love for each other is tested when Egeus tries to shatter their relationship

Above all the tensions created by the discussion of marriage, Lysander deliver a quotes to his love Hermia. “The course of true love never did run smooth…” (Act 1, Scene 1, line 134) is a famous quote by Lysander. In the quote he conveys to readers that love is not perfect, it also has its ups and downs and that he and Hermia are going through a tough situation. Hermia and Lysander both love each other and have made a plan to meet in a forest and then escape Athens however the problem arises when Hermia has tells Helena this and she plans to tell Demetrius about this so that he will love her and not Hermia. The King of fairies− Oberon hears all this and decides to settle the dispute between all of them. He instructs his assistant Robin Goodfellow to search for Demetrius and put the love juice on his eyelids so that he is compelled to love Helena, he informs him about the dressing style of Demetrius in "thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on" (Act 2, Scene 1, line 263-264). However there is a problem, in the forest there are two Athenian men dressed in Athenian garments and their identities were mistaken; instead of putting the love juice on Demetrius's eyelids Robin Goodfellow put it on Lysander's eyelids. Now Lysander "loves" Helena and wants to get away from Hermia. After discovering Robin Goodfellow's mistake, Oberon tries to correct this mistake by putting the same love juice in Demetrius's so that he loves Helena eyes however

Exposition: The story is set in Athens, Greece. Theseus and Hippolyta are both noble and wealthy and they were planning their wedding in 4 days. Hermia and Lysander were in love, but another guy named Demetrius was also in love with Hermia. Helena loves Demetrius but is all alone, because he does not love her. Egeus who is Hermia’s father is not happy about her relationship with Lysander, he wants her to marry Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to run away to another city to be married. Helena tell Demetrius the plan hoping that he will forget Hermia and fall in love with her.

As the play begins to unfold love is immediately illustrated to be the main theme of the play; starting with a wedding and leading up to tears shed by miserable lovers.Although it is an extremely rewarding, love is never an easy adventure. Lovers must be prepared to protect and fight for one another against everyone and anyone. In Hermia’s tragic situation her enemy was her father. Egeus passionately voices his disapproval by taking his daughter to Theseus and stating, “ full of vexation come I with complaint Against my child, my daughter Hermia.—Stand forth, Demetrius.—My noble lord,This man hath my consent to marry her.—Stand forth, Lysander.—And my gracious duke,This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child” (1.1. 22-27). When love is at last passionately felt amongst both lovers, it encounters a malevolent invincible demon; parental disapproval. Hermia and Lysander’s love is cursed and forbidden by her father’s

There are copious amounts of evidence within this story to support the theme of forbidden love, the theme of love gone wrong, and the theme of unconditional love. The theme of unconditional love is nearly screaming from each line of the play. The audience is made aware of the love between Lysander and Hermia very early on. Hermia’s father wishes her to marry Demetrius and he mentions that she belongs to him and therefor if she doesn’t do as he asks he can have her killed. Despite this Hermia pleads,

Theseus, the Duke of Athens, is planning his marriage with Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons. He is also planning a large festival, Egeus, (father of Hermia) enters along with Hermia, her loved Lysander, and her suitor Demetrius. Egeus tells Theseus that Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius, instead to be with Lysander. Egeus asks for permission to punish Hermia with death if she does not obey his decision. Theseus claims that Hermia has to obey her father or else she would have to enter a nunnery or be wed to whom her father favors. Her beloved Lysander tries to protest but is overruled by law. They both decided to flee at night into the woods of Athens.

Things do not usually go well when one person tries to control another person’s life. The play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was written by the playwright, William Shakespeare in the late 1500’s and takes place in Ancient Athens. Shakespeare displays many examples of the theme, do not try to control other people’s lives throughout his play. For example, Egeus, Hermia’s father, tries to control who Hermia marries. “A sweet Athenian lady is in love

Until one night, Puck sees how badly Helena wants to be with Demetrius and decides to put the love potion on Demetrius’s eyes so he will fall in love with her. In the morning, because of the love potion Demetrius declares his love her Helena. Helena however believes that he is only mocking her and runs away. However, after a few days and a few fights Helena believes Demetrius

The biggest obstacle in this play occurs when the power of love is challenged by authority. The play starts with Theseus, duke of Athens, being eager to marry Hippolyta, who he wooed with his sword in combat. Although Theseus promises Hippolyta that he will wed her “with pomp, with triumph, with reveling,” true love between them is questionable. By starting the play with Theseus and Hippolyta, Shakespeare hints the audience of the authority involved in their marriage and leaves the audience wonder if they actually love each other. The focus is then shifted to the four lovers: Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena - by establishing the story of Hermia being forced by her father, Egeus, to marry Demetrius, when the person she actually wants to marry is Lysander. However, Egeus

As the drug worked they ended up getting married. One of the happy couple tried to run away but ended up with a different turn. Puck drugged Lysander as a mistake but did not know it. Hermia felt happy to run away with Lysander but once she found out that he did not love her anymore, it broke her heart.

In Athens, women had very little rights. Womens fathers were the ones who got to choose whom they married, and that caused trouble for the lovers. Hermia’s father, Egeus, strongly believed in this rule. At the beginning, Egeus decides that he wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, which is good for Demetrius but bad for Hermia. Hermia, daringly refuses her father’s wishes, so they seek the help of Theseus, the Duke of Athens. Theseus listens to their situation, and being the authority in the situation, tells Hermia: “Either to die the death, or to abjure for the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia,... if you yield not to your father’s choice, you can endure the livery of a nun...”(24). This shows how authority, in this case the law, gets in the way of “the course of true love…”(28). Egeus’s decision to have Hermia marry Demetrius does not only affect Hermia but also affects Helena. When Hermia’s father chooses Demetris to be her

The exposition begins in Athens with Hermia being forced by her father, Egeus and Theseus, the duke of Athens, to marry Demetrius, a man she did not love. She was in love with Lysander. Since they could not marry, Lysander was to meet her in the forest so they could run away to his aunt’s house in another city. Hermia’s best friend, Helena, was in love with Demetrius, who did not love her. She told him about the plan and followed him to the woods to see what was going to happen, the woods were also filled with fairies. The King of the fairies Oberon and the Queen of fairies Titania were fighting over a changeling boy because the king wanted to use the boy as his page.

Main conflict: HELENA’S mother worked in the castle so HELENA and HERMIA grow up together they were best friend and they never hate each other and they say everything to each other, DEMETRIUS moved to new village to Athens to work in THESEUS castle as guard, HERMIA and HELENA liked DEMETRIUS at the same time but DEMETRIUS like HELENA, HERMIA know that DEMETRIUS and HELENA love each other and try to divide them by giving HELENA a magic recipe inside a perfume that make her had DEMETRIUS but the recipe can break once the person who made the recipe died , then the fairy came to her and give her a magic crystal that tell her that DEMETRIUS is her

A young couple, Lysander and Hermia wish to be married but Hermia’s father wants her to marry Demetrius. Helena, another young woman, is in love with Demetrius but he does not love her. Lysander and Hermia decide to run off through the woods to elope, and they tell Helena of their plans. Wanting an excuse to see Demetrius, Helena tells him about the couple running off to elope and he chases after them. In a similar part of the woods, the fairy King Oberon and Queen Titania argue, which leads him to play a trick on her. He makes her fall in love with the first person she sees, which happens to be a man with the head of a mule. He notices Demetrius and Helena argue and tells Robin, a fairy subject, to use the love potion on Demetrius. Robin mixes

Introduced as “a conqueror…greater” than any other “beneath the sun,” Thesëus, the wise and chivalrous lord Athens, is a merciful and noble duke (Chaucer 24). As a wise and noble leader, Thesëus, with a “heart of pity,” mends the ailments of his people, “ as he [is] a true knight.” (26).