Compare And Contrast In A Midsummer Night's Dream

7. What is Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena? What does this say about

All Shakespearean plays are interpreted very differently and all versions we watched were very different. Shakespeare created these plays to allow people to put their own spin on the stories, and that is what each of the producers, and film directors chose to do. The two plays I watched were the 1999 interpretation, and A Midsummer Night's Dream" presented by Rice University Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts. After watching both of them and seeing the difference between the two, the 1999 version caught my attention the most for many reasons.

Hermia of course is in love with Lysander , and Lysander is in love with Hermia. But there is also, Demetrius who is also in love with Hermia and Helena who is in love with Demetrius. They have been through many obstacles, like in the Act 3 scene 2. After Puck put the love potion on Lysander and he fell in love with Helena, he has followed her around nonstop. As Helena goes to find Hermia, Lysander follows close behind. “Lys: Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Hel: You do advance your cunning more and more.” This is Lysander and Helena talking to each other, Lysander saying why would I mock you if I love you and Helena saying you just get better and better at your jokes, but in a sarcastic way. This shows the relationship between Hermia and Helena in Shakespeare's a Midsummer’s Night Dream.

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Puck and Bottom are different in many ways including the way they behave, their sense of humour, and how they deal with their problems. Puck may be considered a protagonist because he is the character who puts the remedy on Lysander’s eyes and corrects the love problems with the Athenian lovers. Puck makes the mistake by putting the love potion on Lysander’s eyes, making him fall in love with Helena, forgetting Hermia. This causes problems because Hermia is still in love with Lysander and Demetrius is in love with Hermia. Like every protagonist, Puck fixes his mistakes and makes everything rights again.

Michael Hoffman’s 1999 film version of Shakespeare's midsummer night’s dream was able to modify the audience experience of the play. Michael Hoffman had successfully turned the play into a film and was able to show a visible expression of the characters to the audience. He had also made some changes, like the settings and made his version modernized. Though the film was based on the Shakespeare’s play, the audience’s experience is still different.

This sudden change is so shocking Helena believes he is trying to “mock” her. True love is not about mocking one another, but loving those imperfections. Demetrius’ true feelings about his own desires are completely altered to meet the needs of others, morphing Demetrius into a clone of others. Demetrius and Lysander have been consistently compared to one another, so much so that they become the same person, having the same thoughts and actions. They are off together and Hermia makes reference to their

Between The Midsummer Night’s Dream film and play, people have analyzed, compared, contrasted, and studied it constantly. You look between both the play and film and you see the illustrations of how Shakespeare wants his words to fall and how Peter Hall wants his picture to be seen. One can notice the transitions of how Shakespeare wants his words to fall. You notice the transitions within the story of how the characters change, how the setting changes, how the plot changes. Between the movie and the play it integrates the forest and the life within it, you see the river may be a place that the characters change ways along with the plot, and with all you see how they transfer from their fancy, elegant world to the opposite and then back.

Lysander and Demetrius are the two Athenian lovers experience magic. They both experience the love potion and both fall for Helena. Helena is a human, and cannot understand the magic used on Lysander and Demetrius. Helena chooses to believe the men are playing a joke on her. Helena said, “Never did mockers waste more idle breath” (3.2.1206). Helena even says to Hermia, “Have you conspired, have

Many readers may assume that true love is only upon main characters who appear often; but true love is when someone cares about someone and wants to be with that person. A Midsummer's Night Dream, a play by William Shakespeare, a character mixes up who loves who so he can steal his wife’s Indian prince so his wife will give him all her attention again. While some people think Titania and Oberon aren’t in love at first, they are because they have been together for so long and Oberon gets jealous of anything that gets in the way of their love.

Love is a term used daily in one’s life. Many categorize love in many forms. These forms differ from one-another such as the difference between love for food and love for one’s spouse. However, in the play; “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, love takes different forms than the ones experienced in reality. One can classify the different types of love used in this play into three different categories; true love, love produced by cupid’s flower, and the state of lust.

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

Two determined men willing to do anything to get the one they love. In the comedy A Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare two men named Lysander and Demetrius fight for the one they love. Demetrius has consent to marry the one he loves Hermia, but she loves Lysander. During all this another woman named Helena is madly in love with Demetrius. Helena finds out she will die if she will not marry Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander run away through a forest with Demetrious looking for them, and Helena following Demetrious. Lysander and Demetrius are similar in their love for hermia but have different women love them. In today's world Demetrius would do better because he follows the rules, and is more skeptical than lysander.

Comparing a play to its movie adaptation is something that is hard to do since there is no tangible way a person can capture the original then change it to make the movie version of it up to par to the original. From the original play of A Midsummer’s Night Dream that was created by Shakespeare in the movie version of it created by Michael Hoffman, there are many similarities and differences that are in the movie some are very stark while others are very subtle differences.

This shows that Demetrius does not love Helena at all. In Act 3 Scene 2, Lysander tells Helena that he is in love with her and he is not messing around. “Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears.” This shows that Lysander is not messing around and that the spell he is under is working.

In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, there are many different character groups within the play. One of the character groups is the comic group. In the comic group there are two main characters that could be considered as comic characters. These characters are Puck and Bottom. Puck and Bottom have many similarities and differences among themselves, along with other character groups.