Hermia´s Character in Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Hermia has a fearless personality. She is a brave person who is fierce, bold, and hopeful with her decisions. She approaches love as if there was something easily being threatened, but not easily lost. She is harsh with her lovers and wants to make sure that she finds someone that truly loves her. As it indicates in the book of A Midsummer Night's Dream, ‘So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, ere I will yield my virgin patent up unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke my soul consents not to give sovereignty.’

Hermia’s speech in Act 2, Scene 2, of Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, contains an abundance of dream imagery. She has awoken from a terrible dream after falling asleep in the forest with Lysander. They were lost and tired so they decided to rest. Lysander wanted to sleep beside her but, she refused since they are not yet married and while they slept Puck applied a love potion on Lysander’s eyes thinking he was Demetrius. Lysander wakes and is repulsed by the sight of Hermia and never wants to see her again because he is now in love with Helena. Hermia awakes from her terrible dream and retells it thinking that Lysander is nearby listening. Then she realizes that he is not there and she does not see him anywhere. Hermia expresses the sentiment that she will find Lysander or she will surely die. She stated,

The simile being observed here compares Egeus, the father of Hermia, to a god. In this sense, a god is a very strong figure. The play is set in Athenian times when Greek gods were heavily portrayed, so this reference holds supremacy in its meaning. Shakespeare’s utilization of simile not only presents the problem at hand, but also works to outline an underlying theme of power while revealing how the characters seem to view each other.

Lysander and Hermia represent a love so strong it can make you think irrational. Love can mess with your feelings when you are willing to do anything for each other. This is a couple which refuse to deny their feelings and risk the consequences in order to be together. Hermia is a big personality with her own opinions. Hermia feels that she should be able to choose whom she marries. Hermia’s choice to be her man is Lysander, a charming, kind, hopeless romantic. It is not Hermia’s choice, it is her father’s Egeus who forces her to marry Demetrius. These two react to their situation in the only way they can think of. The two young lovers, while companions don’t agree with this coming together decide to experience life and confront the conflict of growth with one another (Kennedy and Kennedy 272).This love is so strong that they run away from their families. Being told “no” makes them want to be together even more, it’s the forbidden fruit that drives you to do things you wouldn’t normally do. Hermia and Lysander love is young and rebellious. Lysander sums up the meaning of the play and the relationship with Hermia with “Aye me, for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth…” (Shakespeare 1397). Lysander understands that if he and Hermia are to be together then there will be many obstacles they must face but they will face them together. Lysander is

Hermia is the person who I sympathize the most in the act two of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Egeus who is Hermia’s father believes she should get married with Demetrius. Demetrius pursues the love of Hermia, but Hermia loves her boyfriend Lysander. Under her father’s pressure, Hermia is trying to escape from Demetrius, because he is also on her father’s side. Hermia is forced by her father about her own marriage reveals her vulnerable ability towards her life and the powerless of woman in the society. In the end of act two, there is an example shows her lamentableness. Hermia wakes up from her nightmare and shouted, “Lysander! What, removed? Lysander! Lord! What, out of hearing? Gone? No sound, no word? Alack, where are you? Speak, an if you

[1]Shakespeare paints his painting with details, so he does not lose the attention of the observers. He accomplishes this by adding language devices to his works. [2]Throughout his play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses language devices to create humor, reveal character, and to create imagery. [1]Shakespeare is an expert of adding humor

Hermia’s own father wants her dead if she goes against his wishes. The aggravation causes Hermia to decide against her wishes and run away with her love, Lysander. Hermia does not want to marry Demetrius because she is true to her love. Hermia is no fool, and though she realizes that men break promises, she is willing to take a chance and run off with Lysander anyway. She is practically being forced to cross the threshold to the other world and begin her hero's’ journey. Therefore Hermia is the protagonist of the story, because in an average piece of literature one dominant, who is gallant and pushed into the other world to face the worst crisis and prove themselves. Hermia proves herself when she crosses the threshold for Lysander and to prove her father wrong who thinks he has a hold on his

This section of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare occurs in a room in the palace of Theseus in Athens. In this section, Hermia’s father, Egeus, has already brought his daughter's resistance in marrying her approved fiance, Demetrius, to the Duke, Theseus. Instead, she is in love with Lysander whom her father disapproves of and is making that clear by setting the law down of the Athens; either she dies, marries Demetrius or becomes a nun for her entire life. While Hermia and Lysander are left poignant, the ex-lover of Demetrius, Helena, enters the room in emotional distress. Furthermore, her and Hermia contrast themselves in conversation; whatever Hermia does Demetrius loves her more, and whatever Helena does, Demetrius hate her more. This section of the play includes how contrast reveals the role of women and how women are the powerless gender in Elizabethan times.

Hermia has an unusual starting right from the beginning, which allows readers to sympathize for the young character. The story starts with the young lady of Athens who is known as the disobedient daughter of Egeus. She's supposed to marry Demetrius, but she has fallen in love with Lysander. Hermia could be mistaken

(Shakespeare 326) Hermia remains true to her word, and she wants to stay pure until her wedding night the following

The power of language holds great significance not only in Shakespearean study but of our daily lives as well. Every nuance Shakespeare creates leaves a clue to a greater truth or understanding of our humanity. Exploring the works of Shakespeare with this in mind allows for audiences to gain more appreciation and awareness of the depth of language and communication through his dialogue and characters as Shakespeare: “asks us to adorn the actor with our thoughts and ‘carry them here and there, jumping o’er the times’” (Bevington xiii).

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, one of the protagonists, a girl named Hermia, is treated extremely unfairly by her father and the Athenian law. Because of Hermia’s refusal to marry Demetrius, a man who she doesn’t love, Hermia’s father and the king, Theseus, give Hermia a choice: “Either … die the death, or to abjure for ever the society of men,” (Shakespeare 4). This is completely unfair to Hermia, as it should be her choice as to who she spends the rest of her life with. Imagine if somebody’s parents forced them to marry somebody that you didn’t love. They would find that unjust. Yet, this is exactly what is happening to Hermia. Now, imagine that the person that they were being forced to marry was a “... spotted and inconsistent

The simile being observed here compares Egeus, the father of Hermia, to a god. In this sense, a god is a very strong figure. The play is set in Athenian times when Greek gods were heavily portrayed, so this reference holds supremacy in its meaning. Shakespeare’s utilization of simile not only presents the problem at hand, but also works to outline an underlying theme of power while revealing how the characters seem to view each other.

Presenting the primary clash, Egeus, an Athenian subject looking for the shrewd guidance of Theseus, arrives. Egeus' grumbling is against his little girl, who declines to marry Demetrius, the suitor he has picked. In spite of the fact that Demetrius adores Hermia, she has given her heart to Lysander and in this way declines to comply with her dad and Athenian law. Strangely, Demetrius quite recently affirmed his adoration for Helena, Hermia's companion. In Act 1, Scene 1, Lysander and Hermia talk about the brief nature of affection as prove in Demetrius' difference in heart. All through this segment, Shakespeare uses similitudes to depict love. As Lysander addresses Hermia he looks at the quickness of affection initially to a progression of things thought of as transitory: sounds, shadows, and dreams. Love is transient as a sound, brief as a shadow, short

Hermia is a strong willed, young woman who is betrothed to a man she does not love. In ancient Athens, a father chooses whom his daughter marries, so, fearing they will never be together, Hermia and her true love, Lysander, run away to the forest. She is speaking out against her father and refusing the marriage he has arranged for her to Demetrius.