Types Of Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Egeus tries to make Hermia marry someone that she doesnt love. If she rebels, he will have her killed. Hermia and Demetrius are two lovers that are being forced to love and marry each other, but the feeling isn’t mutual. Egeus wants Hermia, his daughter, to marry a man she does not love. The consequences of her rebellion results in death.

In the play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare, three completely different situations that have to do with different topics become intertwined in the magical forest locates in the suburbs of Ancient Athens. Throughout the play, there are many representations of the character’s emotions and feelings, such as jealousy, betrayal, and most importantly, love. The main reason everyone get into their troubles is due to one reason; love. Hermia and Lysander made a decision to elope because of their love for each other; Demetrius chases after her because he loves her; Helena chases Demetrius due to love, etc. In this comedy of Shakespeare’s, love is displayed as something fantastical and bizarre.

As the play opens, Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, his fiancée discuss their upcoming wedding. With the introduction of Theseus and

Though it went against what his daughter desired, Egeus requested the assistance of a person in power to get what he wanted. He came to Theseus in hopes that he would force Hermia to marry Demetrius. Hermia belonged to him, so he could do as he pleased with her, and was willing to have her executed in the events that she refused to wed Demetrius. Lysander was able to bring up controversial information about Demetrius, and prove that he was just as worthy of marrying Hermia, though Egeus did not care.

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:

Egeus was trying to control Hermia and make her marry Demetrius which loves her but Hermia’s heart wants Lysander. In act 1 scene 1 it states, “If she won’t agree to marry Demetrius right now, I ask you to let me exercise the right that all fathers have in Athens ….. As the law says: I can either make her marry Demetrius or have her killed.” Egeus would do anything to make his daughter to marry Demetrius.

  Hermia's complicated relationship between her father and her two suitors causes distress concerning her future. In act one, scene 1, line 42, Egeus proclaims, "As she is mine, I may dispose of

Earlier in the play, Egeus grants Demetrius permission to marry Hermia by stating, “Demetrius. My noble lord, This man hath my consent to marry her.” (1.1.24) This is proof that Hermia’s love was controlled by fate due to who her father thought was the worthiest man to wed his daughter. However, we later find out that Hermia does not want to marry Demetrius and says, “I refuse to wed Demetrius.”

Hermia is a beautiful, desirable, a young Athenian woman and is the rebellious daughter of Egeus. She refuses to marry Demetrius, which is against her father's wishes. But her true love is Lysander, a handsome young Athenian man.

By the time Theseus reappears at the end of the play, however, he and Hippolyta seem genuinely and mutually happy together, and he presides over a magically resolved triple wedding in which everyone gains their heart's desire. Hippolyta is the Amazonian Queen and, is set to marry Theseus. Hippolyta is not heavily involved in the play but does sound impatient to get married to Theseus. Titania is the Queen of the fairies and is a delicate creature, fond of elegant song and dance and provides a train of equally lovely spirits. When she first appears in the play, she is angry at her "husband," Oberon, who is continually demanding that she give him one of her attendants, an "Indian Boy" whose mother had been one of her worshippers and has past away.

Hermia did not want to because she loved another man named Lysander. Egeus went to have his daughter put to death. Hermia told her father that she loved Lysander. She also told him that the man that he picked for her to marry, Demetrius, loved Hermia's friend, Helena. She also told him that Helena loved Demetrius.

By telling Demetrius of the planned elopement between Lysander and Hermia, she mind get her man and help her friend in the process. On the other hand, we have the workmen who put the play together. Although they all have different professions, they know each other well and able to tell which character would fit them well. When it was being decided who plays who, there is a bit of argument between them.

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.

Egeus seems to be very forceful and harsh towards his daughter. He feels as if the father is the boss and controls what the daughter does, or should do. For example, although his daughter, Hermia, is madly in love with Lysander he refuses them to get married. Egeus believes that Demetrius is best suited to be Hermia’s husband, even though she shows no true love for him whatsoever. Every father wants the best for their child and wants happiness for them.

There will always be someone trying to change someone’s feelings on who they love. Hermia’s father, Egeus, wants her to marry Demetrius, someone who he picked out, and not Lysander who is the one she is in love with. Hermia then argues that she wants to marry Lysander. Hermia and Lysander then come up with a plan to run away into the woods. Demetrius is actually in love with the person he is forced to marry. He told Hermis that the title of husband would be his. He also told Helena to quit following him in the woods while he was trying to look for Hermia. Theseus also told Hermia that he would give her four days to decide if she wants to marry Lysander or Demetrus. He told Hermia that Demetrius was a lovely gentleman and it wouldn’t be bad if she married him. However, he did not want to