Lysander Discloses

Helena and Demetrius spend the night together which causes Helena to fall in love with him. Except Demetrius does not return her feeling of love and instead likes her best friend Hermia instead. When Demetrius is under the love potion he says “Lysander, keep thy Hermia. I will none. If e’er I loved her, all that love is gone. My heart to her but as guestwise sojourned And now Helen is it home returned, There to remain.”(Act 3 Scene 2). He pursues Helena and toys with her feelings (even though it wasn’t intentional) showing that love indeed can change and turn on

Lysander and Hermia have problems in their relationship when they are trying to get married. This

In Act 3 Scene 2, Lysander tells Helena that he is not mocking he and that he is in love with her for real even though he is under a spell. “Look, when I vow, I weep. And vows so born, in their nativity all truth appears.” This shows that Lysander has fallen in love with Helena because of the spell. In Act 2 Scene 1, Demetrius says that Helena needs to leave him alone or else he will harm her.

As Helena learns of Lysander and Hermia's plan to run off and be happy, she instantly gets jealous and agonizes over her heartbreaking situation with Demetrius, the man who loves an already happy Hermia and not her. While by herself, Helena realizes love is flawed and has a mind of its own.

The two are immensely in love, yet aren’t allowed to even be together. Instead, they are faced with some strongly unbearable options. In addition, Demetrius and Helena’s love never ran the way they wanted and portrayed the difficulties of love with their painful love encounter. Ever since Helena and Demetrius had ended things between them due to Demetrius falling for Hermia, Helena has continued to be deeply in love with Demetrius.

“The course of true love never did run smooth” (1.1.134) is very true in the play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Throughout the play three different couples’ love lives become very messed up in the play. The course of all their love lives become full of problems, which are all caused by a love potion, which was meant to fix all of the lovers’ problems. “The course of true love never did run sooth,’ (1.1.134) applies to Demetrius and Helena, Hermia and Lysander, and Titania and Oberon.

Helena, whom fancies Demetrius, decides to inform him of the happenings between Hermia and Lysander. Demetrius, infuriated by this news, decides to follow Hermia and Lysander out in to the forest. Helena is following along; against Demetrius’ repent of the action. Ultimately, along the love story between Hermia and Lysander we discover the second variation of love in the play: forbidden love. These two characters, desperate for one another, decide since their love is forbidden in their own home, they will travel to someone else’s and finally become one. This is their silent protest to what the Duke and Egeus have declared of their love.

This creates conflict during the play between Helena and Demetrius. Shakespeare better illustrates Lysander’s true love for Hermia in the quote “ You have her father’s love, Demetrius, let me have Hermia’s”(Shakespeare 93-94). Lysander fights for Hermia against her father’s consent, showing true love for Hermia. The author includes this to show how true love overpowers all laws, rules, and parental

Hermia often chooses her lover over her best friend, even when it comes to never seeing the other one again. In this story, Hermia’s father wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, although she is in love with Lysander. She then decides to run away with him, hence they can marry and stay with his aunt. Accordingly, Lysander comes up with the plan of getting out of Athens, so that they can live together happily and says, “There, gentle Hermia,

I do repent/ The tedious minutes I with her have spent./Not Hermia but Helena I love” (2.2.117-119). This shows how his love for Hermia wavered, and then completely changed. Helena experiences the same as Hermia, as both Lysander and Demetrius, who were deeply infatuated with Hermia, fall in love with her. Both Lysander and Demetrius’ love transfer over to Helena, which comes as quite a shock to Hermia.

Despite all of the chaos and mismatched love triangles which develop throughout the play, both women end up with the men they initially wanted. Hermia gets to marry Lysander while Helena marries Demetrius, even though he never rids himself of Oberon’s spell (4.1). Shakespeare’s plot leaves an open gap for interpretation here, which is highlighted through this production as a way for women to sexually manipulate men and express themselves like they did throughout the

In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare tries to tell the readers that love can often sway people into performing illogical decisions. First of all, love can cause conflict amongst people. This is shown when two of the main characters, Demetrius and Lysander, were fighting with each other for Hermia’s love. Demetrius scorns: “Relent, sweet Hermia - and Lysander, yield. Thy crazed title to my certain right.

Also, Hermia loves him, which should be the deciding factor although it is not which is unfair. Lysander is confused on why he is not able to marry Hermia. This is true love because Hermia and Lysander love each other unlike the forced love between Hermia and Demetrius. Another example of their true love is when Lysander tells Hermia “There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee. And to that place, the sharp Athenian law cannot pursue us.

Hermia and Lysander are one of the many couples that are madly in love. Even more in love since they aren’t supposed to be, as Hermia’s father wants her to marry a different man, Demetrius, else being forced into nunnery, or even killing her. When the couple

Oberon and Puck plot to use the love juice to have Demetrius fall in love with Helena, however, this becomes botched and chaos ensues. When the wrong people begin falling in love other themes are brought to light, jealousy and mistakes. This is shown within the play when Hermia confronts Helena for being in love with Demetrius and Lysander when [Hermia] says “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?” (3.2.282-84). This lashing out at her friend Helena provides us a glimpse of what jealousy can make people do when they do not have all the information. As Hermia has angry words with Helena the thoughts of both Demetrius and Lysander can best be summed up in the lines from the song ‘Spellbound” :