Quotes From A Midsummer Night's Dream

Firstly, the rash characters betray each other to pursue their ever-changing love interests. While Hermia and Lysander discuss their plan to elope, Helena enters, distraught and jealous of Hermia’s good fortune. Hermia attempts to comfort Helena by telling her about her and Lysander’s plan to elope to a neighbouring city. Immediately, Helena devises a plan to “go tell [Demetrius] of fair Hermia’s flight…for this intelligence, If I have thanks it is a dear expense” (I.i.246,248-249). Desperate for even a moment’s attention from Demetrius, the love of her life, Helena is willing to potentially ruin Hermia’s life. Her motives for deceiving Hermia in this manner are: her desire to win Demetrius back, jealousy of Hermia’s good fortune in finding love, and her physical appearance. Later in the play, Puck puts the love-in-idleness juice on Lysander, causing him to dote hopelessly over Helena. When he awakens, Lysander leaves Hermia to confess his love to Helena, who questions how he could dare to leave Hermia. He confidently replies, “[It

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

With these features she Helena says that she would attract Demetrius and except him, unlike Hermia who wishes him away. She asks Hermia to teach her the art of her beauty and win the affection of Demetrius heart. The last character that shows jealousy is Hermia. She shows Jealousy when Lysander is spelled, and falls for Helena. While under a spell, Lysander tells Hermia:

In act 3 scene 2, Hermia cried out to Lysander, who had betrayed her, “Why are you grown so rude? What change is this, Sweet love?” but Lysander says, “Thy love! Out, tawny Tartar, out! Out, loathèd med'cine! O hated potion, hence!” (3.2.172-175) Because Lysander falls in love with Helena because Puck mistakenly put his love potion on Lysander, Hermia, the actual lover of Lysander, got hurt by him. She could not believe that Lysander did not love her anymore. This was wrong. Helena was not the true love of Lysander. However, because of the blind love effect of the love potion, Lysander forgot his true love.

7. What is Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena? What does this say about

Occurring in Act 2 scene 1, Helena informs Demetrius of Hermia and Lysander’s plans to run away together in hopes of winning Demetrius’s heart. After hearing about their plan, Demetrius is determined to stop Hermia and pursues after her into the woods. Helena isn’t far behind and tries to reason with Demetrius. Once again she expresses her love for him and even offers him to do anything

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 first way this can be seen is though her stating “Do not say so, Lysander, say not so. What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though? Yet Hermia still loves you; then be content.” (Shakespeare 2.2 107-110) to Lysander. Here she starts to believe that she is being lied to, due to Lysander being in love with Hermia. This makes here have to deal with fake love from him being placed on her due to the mix-up by Puck. The second way this can be seen is through “Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency?” (Shakespeare 2.2 123-128) Here, she explains how she feels she does not deserve the mockery she believes he is playing on her. And how she feels she is a victim because she cannot get Demetrius to love her, no matter how hard she tries. The final reason she is a victim of love is though her statement “O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent To set against me for your merriment: If you were civil and knew courtesy, You would not do me thus much injury. Can you not hate me, as I know you do, But you must join in souls to mock me too?” (Shakespeare 3.2 145-150) to Demetris. From here she is angry how she feels that everyone is mocking her, due to him having not shown her love before this. And how he is not the only one who is mocking her, but so has Lysander and, in her mind, Hermia though Demetrius loving

Lysander and Demetrius are the two Athenian lovers experience magic. They both experience the love potion and both fall for Helena. Helena is a human, and cannot understand the magic used on Lysander and Demetrius. Helena chooses to believe the men are playing a joke on her. Helena said, “Never did mockers waste more idle breath” (3.2.1206). Helena even says to Hermia, “Have you conspired, have

When Lysander wakes, he beholds the same Helena that he's always despised and suddenly he is

Instead, Puck anointed Lysander’s eyes and Lysander fell in love with Helena and it turned into a fight. Examples of the theme are also shown in plot events throughout the

Does Lysander love me anymore? In an attempt to escape Hermia’s duties as a daughter and a woman, Lysander composes the idea of running away into the forest where his aunt lives while being unaware of the effects it may have on his relationship with Hermia as well as their trust for one another. Living so close to the forest allows not only Hermia and Lysander to escape from their problems but as well as the Athenian people looking to commit a crime or freely express themselves. In the Discussion of Egeus marriage arrangement, Lysander gives Hermia immense confidence for a marriage in the forest assuring her “I could marry you there, gentle Hermia, where the strict laws of Athens can’t touch us.”(I.i.ll 160-1) referring to the strict laws of Athens shows the tremendous lack of freedom towards the citizens of Athens especially women forced into marriage. Agreeing with this plan causes a ray of happiness towards Hermia allowing her to share the secret with her lifelong friend Helena soon revealing her plans to Demetrius, her true love, overflowing him with determination to find Hermia before marrying Lysander. As the four lovers scavage through the forest on the hunt for their cravings disaster strikes as a fairy servant is sent to withdraw the love for Hermia from Demetrius into Helena causing a catastrophic change of fate among Lysander and Hermia. As Lysander walks up with the essence of the flower of love on his eyelids to the presence of Helena in front of him, shapes true love into an illusion. The confrontation of disbelief from Hermia assures she feels “Can you hurt me any more than by saying you hate me? Hate me? Why? What’s happened to you, my love? Am I not Hermia? Aren’t you Lysander?...you still loved me when we fell asleep, but when you woke up you left

Puck’s role in the play is that of a supernatural creature that answers to the King Oberon. King Oberon and Queen Titania are the leaders of the fairies, goblins, and elf’s. The king, queen, and fairies typically want to bring happiness and love to the mortals. However, this one goblin called ‘Puck’ is a prankster, one that loves to wreak havoc in his mischievous ways onto mortals. Because of Puck’s mischief, he accidently makes two men, Lysander and Demetrius, fall in love with the same women, Helena, who only returns Demetrius’ love. While this plot takes place Puck, unbeknownst the king for the moment, enjoys watching the love triangle of chaos unfold before his very eyes.

He then finds Queen Titania. When Titania falls asleep, King Oberon squeezes the juice to Titania’s eyelid and hoping that the first thing that will see by Titania upon waking is a wild beast. In the meantime, Hermia and Lysander are lost in the woods. They decided to rest until morning. Robin now finds Demetrius and he sees Lysander and he assumes that it is Demetrius that King Oberon told him about so he puts the juice in Lysander’s eyes. By accident, Helena sees Lysander and wakes him up. Lysander falls in love with her and starts Chasing Helena into the woods. Hermia is now awakened and she is looking for Lysander because of a nightmare. She dreamed about a snake eating her heart. Hermia goes to the woods to find

Lysander, one of the four lovers, is desperately in equal love with Hermia. On their journey to run away with each other, Lysander is mistakenly placed under the magic of the cupid juice. He is awoken by Helena, and instantly falls in love with her. She is considered