Lyra In The Golden Compass

Lysander still doubts Hermia because she is a woman, and women usually do not do dangerous or reckless things in this time. Knowing that she is doubted, Hermia tells Lysander that women keep their promises many more times than when men make vows. Hermia is doubted as a character who is willing to break the rules and go against society, so she stands up for herself, and

Hermia and Lysander behave irrationally throughout the whole play because they’re head over heels for each other; however, their love is oppressed by both her father Egeus and the strict Athenian law. In Act 1, Scene 1 when Egeus is at court with Hermia he uses a demanding and dominating tone to state, ‘as she is mine i may dispose of her’ This causes them to act spontaneously and irrationally and as a consequence, they run away from Athens to get married. This entertains the audience by adding more conflict and complication to the story. After they elope to the forest, magic becomes the force that turns love to a dramatic and conflict filled experience that is also entertaining. Lysander acts in irrational ways when he is put under the spell of ‘Love in Idleness’ where he states how madly he loves on Helena, and how much he hates Hermia. ‘Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose, / or I will shake thee from me like a serpent.’ Derogatory language and repetition is used to emphasise his hate toward Hermia and orders her to leave him alone. For example, in Act 3, Scene 2, Lysander has fallen in love with Helena and tells Hermia how he hates her. ‘Out, loathed medicine! O hated potion, hence!’ Conflict between characters create comedy in the play which entertains the audience because of the dramatic irony. Lysander’s insults in the statement are repetition as it is the same meaning but in different words. This language technique emphasises that Lysander wants Hermia to leave him alone.

In these lines Lysander tells Hermia that, never did he desire to be with someone more. He also tells her to not question or doubt, but to be certain that he hates her and loves Helena. With Hermia shocked and heartbroken she shows her confusion and jealously to Helena. He states, “O me! You juggler, you canker blossom, / You thief of love! What, have you come by night/ And stol’n my love’s heart from him?” (3.2.282). In these lines Hermia is telling Helena that she is a trickster/cheater, and a love thief. She also asks what have Helena done to steal Lysander’s love from her. Although all of these Characters show acts of Jealously, They find happiness in the end.

Hermia’s love for Lysander can be seen as genuine as she states ‘I would my father looked but with my eyes’ which means she wishes her father could see Lysander the way she does. This suggests that she is not under his spell as she truly sees him with her own eyes, and loves him. The audience also sees that she is very passionate about Lysander, as she chooses to ‘yield my virgin patent up’ and live the life of a nun or die rather than ‘wed Demetrius’. We also see the love between Lysander and Hermia is genuine later in Act 1 Scene 1 when ‘Exeunt all but Lysander and Hermia’, as it appears that Lysander is finishing Hermia’s sentences, indicating they are very familiar with each other, and he is comforting her lovingly. Lysander also states ‘true love never did run smooth’ which suggests they truly believe what they feel is true love. Another technique used by Shakespeare to emphasise their love is vivid imagery. Hermia’s speech declaring that she would meet Lysander in ‘the wood’ is filled with imagery suggesting love and passion, such as ‘by Cupid’s strongest bow’ and her reference to the Greek Goddess Venus: ‘By the simplicity of Venus’ doves’, emphasises her passion for Lysander.

They deceived them by running away to marry each other, which they were forbidden to do. “Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night;” (I,I,170). Hermia’s father doesn’t wants Hermia to be with Lysander. He wants her to marry Demetrius. Lysander makes a plan to run away and deceive everyone who didn't agree with their relationship. Lysander wants to run away and marry Hermia.

Lucy, from the book, “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, is a girl that discovers the whimsical wonders of the land of Narnia. Her mission was to try to get her siblings to

The book Lyddie, By Katherine Paterson, is a book about a girl named Lyddie, Lyddie is a 12-year-old girl living in the year 1843 in Vermont in a farm that their father built before he left with her mother two sisters and one brother. It turns out that their mother went crazy because their dad left and she was left to take care of the kids. When their mother and two sisters were moved to a camp Lyddie and her brother were left to take care of the farm, at the beginning of the year their mother sold the farm and sent Lyddie and her brother to different jobs.

I’m hither, with abhor, to complain about mine daughter Hermia. My lord, this sir, Demetrius, hath mine permission to marry that lady. Step forward, Lysander. —But this other sir, Lysander, hath cast a magic spell ov'r mine child’s heart. You, thee, Lysander, you’ve given that lady poems, and switch thy love with mine daughter. You’ve connived to steal mine daughter’s heart, making that lady stubborn and harsh instead of obedient, I asketh thee to alloweth me exercise the right that all fathers has't in Athens. Since the lady belongs to me, I can doth what I want with her, as the law says: I can either maketh that lady marry Demetrius—or hath that lady killed.

As Lylanna grew in age, she struggled more and more from the people who cursed her existence. Other children her age disliked her already from a start, they always referred to her as a “demon” above anything else, and it would often

The text starts off with rather stirring imagery, the imagery of books being set ablaze by the protagonist, Guy Montag. As a member of a modern society where there is always a plethora of books available and therefore, a plethora of knowledge at one's fingertips it bothersome that one would want of rid the world of that commodity. Bradbury starts off his work by painting the vivid beginnings of a tale of a dystopian culture.

The main characters of this story are: Theodosia Throckmorton, a clever twelve-year-old girl with the ability to sense Egyptian curses; Henry Throckmorton, Theodosia’s brother who assists her in her journey; Sticky Will, a London pickpocket who met Theodosia when he tried to steal her father’s wallet and worked as an errand boy for her and now works for the Brotherhood of the Chosen Keepers; Lord Wigmere, the leader of the Brotherhood of the Chosen Keepers and the one who gives Theodosia the task of returning the stolen artifact; Henrietta Throckmorton, the mother of Theodosia and the person who took the artifact; and Von Braggenschnot, the leader of the Serpents of Chaos.

The author slowly revealed Lyddie’s inclining knowledge by changing the way she spoke. Lyddie no longer used “ey” at the end of a question or statement. Also her writing and grammar were improving in her letters. Her way of speech no longer resembled a country girl, she now sounded like thoroughbred mill girl. 1.)

Lysander then leaves with Helena but ultimately returns to his original girlfriend Hermia. Hermia ends up with the boy she truly loves in the end. She got what she wanted and deserved. Hermia is like a modern day woman because she set her mind to something and accomplished it in the

The main person in The City of Ember is Lina. Lina is a slender small girl with long dark hair. She’s really fidgety and likes to move and run around. She is a different, weird kind of character. Her dream job is to be a messenger because she likes to run around the town delivered messages. The first problem with the book is when they start drawing for jobs to help out the city. When she went up to draw she picked pipeworker laborer, which was one of the worst jobs in the bag, “Pipeworks laborers.” She hated it so much that didn’t want to help and do it. Her friend went last and he drew the messenger and he crumbled it up and threw it and got upset. The setting is dark and poor, lights are flickering and its a run down city that barely functions.

In Philip Pullman’s novel, The Golden Compass, a young girl, named Lyra Belacqua lives in a parallel world in which human souls take the form of lifelong animal companions called daemons. In Lyra’s world the antagonists, a group of people known as Gobblers, have been kidnapping kids from the streets. Lyra vows to save her best friend, Roger, after she discovers that he disappears along with one of the Gyptians’ boys. She sets out with her daemon, a tribe of Gyptians, a witch, an ice bear and a Texas airman on an epic quest to rescue Roger and save her world. These two goals would eventually lead Lyra to fulfill her so-called “destiny”. Lyra lives in a world where a lot of people believe in the ideology of predestination, but destiny is an illusion of free will and foreknowledge. Her choices can influence future outcomes and ultimately change her “destiny” as long as she has some foreknowledge of her prophecy, if she doesn’t have that then she cannot make the necessary actions to avoid it.