Lysander And Hermia Chapter Summaries

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Hermia and Lysander’s relationship goes through many complexities. Hermia and Lysander want to get married. Unfortunately, Hermia’s father, Egeus, wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. Oberon, the king of the fairies, has control of a flower which can change who you love. Hermia and Lysander have to deal with many obstacles such as the flower, so they can be together. Hermia and Lysander end up together; however, their love is difficult on behalf of Egeus, the Athenian law, and the love flower.

This contrasts to the unrhymed iambic pentameter of the Athenians. Because the meters are in fact inverses of each other, it shows how, although both worlds are similar on the surface, they are very different at the core. Both the Athenians and the fairies were struggling with complexities of love. Demetrius with Helena, Lysander with Hermia, and Oberon with Titania all fought the impending chaos that so often accompanied love. The only difference between the squabbling couples was their nature. In the case of Demetrius, Helena, Lysander and Hermia, they were nothing more than mortals. However, the fairies were considered magical beings of great power. Their presence was intimidating and their command was to be respected. By giving end rhyme to the fairies, Shakespeare set them apart intellectually from the lovers and they became more dignified and lyrical in their nature. Because Shakespeare blurred the lines of dominance between the lovers and the fairies through similar meter while maintaining the stereotypical fairy personality of the time, he induced a sense of chaos. Social order began to crumble and emotional breakdowns started soon after.

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

Eqeus attempts to steal Hermia’s free will through the Athenian Law. For example, “Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia” (1.1, 23-34, Shakespeare). In this quote, Eqeus is attempting to steal Hermia’s free will. Eqeus is explaining to Theseus that Hermia is disobeying his command. Hermia wishes to marry Lysander, but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. Therefore, Eqeus is attempting to strip Hermia of her free will and use power to carry out his actions. Furthermore, in Act Two, Shakespeare incorporates fairies. The reader is introduced to Puck, Oberon, and Titania. Oberon, the king of the fairies, Titania, the queen of the fairies, and Puck, a servant. Using lines, “Churl, upon thy eyes I throw all the power this charm doth owe” (2.2, 78-79, Shakespeare), the reader learns fairies can use magic to manipulate free will. Puck placed a love potion on Lysander’s eyes, which results in chaos. The lines, “Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word. Is that vile name to perish on my sword!” (2.2, 106-107, Shakespeare), show this chaos, Lysander now wishes to kill Demetrius for

Before the symbolism of the woods and the land of fairies, the main sources of the conflict between reality and unreality, is intact, there are small hints slowly leading to that direction in the opening scene of Act I, scene i. When Egeus approaches Theseus to aid him with his daughter’s infatuation with Lysander instead of Demetrius, he claims that Lysander has “bewitch'd the bosom of

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.

On February 9 2020, two baby known as Lysander and Lysandra, was born. Approximately around this time the cure for aging was just introduced into American Society. However, the cure is a very controversial subject; given this the US government outlawed getting the cure and as a result mass protest begin to arise as a result of this feat. When the twins were five, mass protest was already formed which broke into two major sides. Those who supported the cure, and those who were completely against the cure. The two major political parties begin to see this topic as a politically stance and the Democratic party and Republican party begin to take stances on the cure. The Democratic party supported legalizing the cure, stating that people should have the choice available to get the cure and there wasn’t a coherent argument to make the cure illegal. The Republican party opposed the cure, stating that it was wrong to undo God’s nature creation. The country was greatly divided against the cure and much violence took place as a result. Violent protest appeared all over the country such as the great protest of Los Angelos, on March 20 2025, and the castrophic protest of Baltimore Maryland, 2025 April 1, 2025.

Midsummer Night’s Dream mainly depicted the baffling journey of four Athenian young lovers, and a frivolous group of actors who unwittingly interacted with the Duke, Duchess, and somehow fairies. Being that the story took place in an eerie forest in Athens, there was a fight betwixt the fairy king himself and his lovely wife Titania, which had an impact on the environment. To win back the devotion of his wife Oberon showed her how fortuitous she was by making her fall in love with a weaver who was transformed into

In the opening scene, Hermia refuses to follow her father’s orders to marry Demetrius and instead, demands to stay with Lysander. To act on the situation, Egeus appeals to the duke, Theseus, to force his daughter to marry Demetrius. Turning to Hermia, Theseus then tells her:

3. The exposition of the story is when Hermia's father tries to make her marry Demetrius, but she does not love him and refuses. She Is given four days to decide if she wants to marry him or die, so she makes a plan to run away from the city with her true love Lysander. The rising action is when the fairies begin to fight over the boy raised in the woods. So the Oberon makes the plan to put something into Titania's eyes to trick her into loving the beast.

In Midsummer Night 's Dream, the story starts with Theseus, duke of Athens, engaged to Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. While preparing for their wedding, Theseus is confronted by Egeus, who brings criticism about his daughter Hermia, who refuses his wishes to marry Demetrius, for she is in love with Lysander. Egeus demands that either Hermia respects his wishes or be punished by the Athenian law. While Hermia is in love with Lysander and vice versa, Demetrius is in love with Hermia and ignores Helena, Hermia 's childhood friend, unrequited love.

Four worlds collide in a magical woods one night in midsummer in William Shakespeare's mystical comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The mythological duke of Athens, on the eve of his wedding to the newly defeated Queen of the Amazons, is called upon by the mortal Egeus to settle a quarrel. Hermia, Egeus's vociferous daughter, refuses to marry the man her father has betrothed to her, the enamored Demetrius. Theseus sides with authoritarian Egeus and forces Hermia to marry Demetrius or face death. Defiantly, Hermia and her love, Lysander, resolve to elope and abscond into the woods, confessing their plan only to Hermia's covetous

Ovid’s Metamorphoses, is about legends of transformations based from classical Greek and Roman mythology, it contained stories about passionate, adulteress romantic affairs between gods (immortals) and mortals (Bevington). Bloom suggests that Shakespeare was denied the ability to invent a plot, thus was prideful in his ability to create and merge, interweaving four worlds of characters into the one play. We see Shakespeare merge folk culture within the play when he created the characters Theseus and Hippolyta, the Duke of Athens and an amazon, who belong to classical myths and legends, the lovers; Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena are all young people in love – although no record of definite time or place, however represents lovers from every time and place (Bloom). Next we have the magical courtly world of the fairies, which Shakespeare emerged from literary folk lore in the characters of the Oberon and Titania, monarchs of the Fairy realm, Puck and Titania’s fairies. Lastly, Shakespeare created the world of the ‘mechanicals’ who are English rustic artisans – Peter Quince, Bottom, Snug, Flute and Starveling, which Bloom believes these ‘mechanicals’ characters are based from Shakespeare’s own countryside where he grew up. Bloom further goes on to explain that Titania is Ovid’s

HERMIA is in her room wearing a princess ' dress and THESEUS is standing in his Castle in Athens in his king clothes. DEMETRIUS is guarding the castle in guard clothes, and HELENA is standing in HERMIA room looking at DEMETRIUS, in her simple clothes, the fairy watching everything in fairy clothes.

In due time Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius are of into the woods where there are no guidelines or rules and are free to live their own lives, as they wish. Alongside the 4 lovers, fairies rome the woods: King Oberon and Queen Titania. The fairies however, are not getting along because Oberon feels like he is not receiving enough attention from Titaina, she is giving it all Indian boy therefore he wants Indian boy “To be [his] henchman” (2. 1. 124). Oberon being tired of this, in consequence sends puck, his jester to the woods to retrieve a flower that would “make or man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees.” (2. 1. 178). Oberon hopes to drop the nectar in her eyes to gain her love and attention back, so she no longer gives it to Indian boy. On his was back, puck comes across Helena and Demetrius. He overhears Helena telling demetrius “use me as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, unworthy as I am to follow you” (2. 1. 212-214). In response Demetrious says “run from thee and hide me in the brakes, and leave thee to the mercy of the