Mid Summer nights Dream Essays

The love that Lysander and Hermia share is very unlike the relationship between Helena and Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia have loved each other for a very long period of time and have dreamed of getting married. However, Hermia’s father, Egeus, disapproves of this couple. Hermia and Lysander’s love for each other is tested when Egeus tries to shatter their relationship

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.

Egeus tells the Duke that his daughter can marry Demetrius, not Lysander. Hermia replies ". . . If I refuse to wed Demetrius," Egeus replies "Either to

The best part of a long, hard-working day is when you finally get to lay in your bed, close your eyes and let your imagination run free. As you sleep your mind takes you to another place far away from the real world. You begin to dream. Over the night, you may have several dreams. In the morning, you may wake up and wonder what your dreams were suppose to mean for you and your life. By analyzing your dream, it "gives a true picture of the 'subjective state'-how we really feel about ourselves-which the conscious mind cannot or will not give" (Wietz 289). In order to find the meaning of a dream, you have to pick out the most important symbols and define them. But you may be wondering what exactly is a symbol?

As the play begins to unfold love is immediately illustrated to be the main theme of the play; starting with a wedding and leading up to tears shed by miserable lovers.Although it is an extremely rewarding, love is never an easy adventure. Lovers must be prepared to protect and fight for one another against everyone and anyone. In Hermia’s tragic situation her enemy was her father. Egeus passionately voices his disapproval by taking his daughter to Theseus and stating, “ full of vexation come I with complaint Against my child, my daughter Hermia.—Stand forth, Demetrius.—My noble lord,This man hath my consent to marry her.—Stand forth, Lysander.—And my gracious duke,This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child” (1.1. 22-27). When love is at last passionately felt amongst both lovers, it encounters a malevolent invincible demon; parental disapproval. Hermia and Lysander’s love is cursed and forbidden by her father’s

Puck is a mischievous sprite, involved with most magical events in the play. Often playing tricks for his own enjoyment or by his master, Oberon’s, commands, Puck is depicted as a young, deceptive character. When first discovered as Robin

Traditional Puck belongs rather to solitary fairies than to the trooping ones. Shakespeare’s version ties him very closely to the fairy court – he serves Oberon, the fairy king. The Puck from Shakespeare’s play seems to be the combination of the archetypes of a wild solitary being, a domestic figure, and trooping fairies belonging to the high courts of fairy aristocracy.

Hermia and her dad, Egeus do not see eye to eye very well. Egeus will not let Hermia marry the person

He reports that Titania has fallen in love with Bottom. Hermia and Demetrius enter, with Hermia accusing Demetrius of killing her beloved Lysander, who has vanished. The argument reveals no truths so Hermia departs in search of Lysander, leaving Demetrius to sleep. At this point, Puck and Oberon realized that a mistake has been made and Puck is sent in search of Helena while Oberon enchants the sleeping Demetrius. They unintentionally wake Demetrius who immediately falls in love with Helena because she is the first person that he sees. Helena now thinks that Demetrius is a part of the prank because of his sudden change of heart. The situation escalates when Hermia enters. Lysander and Demetrius fight over Helena, while Helena starts a fight with Hermia. Helena thinks Hermia is also a part of the prank. Oberon rushes to retrieve the Indian boy from Titania, while Puck leads the lovers away from each other before a life is lost. They get lost in a fog and fall asleep to wake up in love.

Egeus wants someone from the same class to marry her daughter. Someone that is wealthy like they are. Demetrius is his first choice for his daughter because he is wealthy and rich but so is Lysander. Demetrius also agrees because he loves Hermia also. He wants to marry Hermia because Hermia’s father wants him to marry her.

Egeus believes since Hermia is his daughter, that she belongs to him. He goes to the Duke, Theseus, and asks him to tell Hermia her options. He tells her that she has to marry Demetrius, die, or never see another man again. Lysander, though, tries to prove he is worthy of her love, and he says “My love is more than his... And-which is more than all these boasts can be-

To marry Demetrius, live her life as a nun, or die. Hermia’s choices are undeserved and outrageous to the situation she did nothing wrong to get punished. When Hermia’s father, Egeus, told Hermia she had to marry Demetrius Hermia did not have feelings for Demetrius because she loved Lysander. “Egeus is a stereotypical Elizabethan father, a man used to running every aspect of his family's lives, especially

he is becoming less and less relevant and the matter of his daughter’s marriage is one of the only things that where he still has authority. Another reason that he threatened Hermia with the law is because he is very conservative. He is afraid that act of defiance because it goes against the Athenian custom of the father deciding the husband of his daughter. His unwaveringly firm decision throughout the entire play proves his strict and conservative personality. He doesn’t even change his decision when found that Hermia and Lysander tried to run away because of their love for each other. It seems that although both Lysander and Demetrius are eligible men to marry Egeus’ daughter, he wants Hermia to marry Demetrius instead of her true love Lysander and because his motivation is unclear it can be assumed that Egeus just wants his own way and for his daughter to obey him. From this it evident that Egeus is very self serving

3. Egeus wants to complain to Theseus about his daughter Hermia. Egeus wants her to marry Demetrius but she is in love with Lysander. He wants her to choose either Demetrius or death.

"You'll never see an object in dream that you haven't seen in your daily life"