William Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream

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.

The story of A Midsummer Night's Dream was mainly about love and its abnormal dealings. In the play, Shakespeare tried to show that love is unpredictable, unreasonable, and at times is blind. The theme of love was constantly used during the play and basically everything that was said and done was related to the concept of love and its unpredictable ness. Shakespeare made all of the characters interact their lives to be based on each other’s. At first, everything was very confusing, and the characters were faced with many different problems. In the end, however, they were still able to persevere and win their true love, the love they were searching for in the first place.

Lysander and Hermia also portray true love. Refusing to marry her suitor, Demetrius, she willingly gives up everything and runs away from Athens with her lover, Lysander, “There my Lysander and I shall meet, and thence from Athens turn away our eyes.” In the play within the play, Pyramus and Thisbe also present us with true love. Their situation

Shakespeare uses many different themes to present love; relationships, conflict, magic, dreams and fate. Overall, he presents it as something with the ability to make us act irrationally and foolishly. Within A Midsummer Night's Dream we see many examples of how being 'in love' can cause someone to change their perspective entirely. 'The path of true love never did run smooth' is a comment made from one of the main characters, Lysander, which sums up the play's idea that lovers always face difficult hurdles on the path to happiness and will usually turn them into madmen.

Love is such an abstract and intangible thing, yet it is something that everyone longs for. In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the difficulty of love is explored through the obstacles that characters have to face while pursuing their loved ones. Those characters that are in love in the play were conflicted with troubles; however, the obstacles of love do not seem to stop them from being infatuated with each other. The concept of true love is examined throughout this play. By creating obstacles using authority and a higher power, Shakespeare examines the power of love. Through Hermia and Lysander’s loving words, it is reasonable to conclude that love conquers all if you believe in it.

Shakespeare’s usage of metaphor and simile in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is best understood as an attempt to provide some useful context for relationships and emotions, most often love and friendship, or the lack thereof. One example of such a usage is in Act 3, Scene 2 of the play. Here, the two Athenian couples wake up in the forest and fall under the effects of the flower, thus confusing the romantic relationships between them. Hermia comes to find her Lysander has fallen for Helena. Hermia suspects that the two have both conspired against her in some cruel joke, and begins lashing out against Helena. She says “We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, / Have with our needles created both one flower, / Both one sampler sitting on one cushion, / Both warbling of one song, both in one key; / As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, / Had been incorporate. So we grew together, / Like a double cherry, seeming parted; / But yet a union in partition / Two lovely berries moulded on one stem: / So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; / Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, / Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.” (Shakespeare 2.3.206-13). Shakespeare writes this list of vibrant metaphors to establish the prior relationship between these two characters and to make it evident how affected Helena is by this unexpected turn of events, as well as to add a greater range of emotion to the comedy, thereby lending it more literary and popular appeal.

William Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, establishes that there is natural law and social law. These two laws symbolize a balance in the world. Without one, the world would be uneven. However, evidence of King Oberon’s actions in the play demonstrate to the reader that he is a tyrant. Based on his actions, such as cheating on his significant other, toward the Indian boy, and the use of the love potion, the play displays his characteristics, thus proving the motives of King Oberon.

Male and female relationships differ a tremendous amount compared to now versus Shakespeare’s time. The obvious answer to many as to how it differs is the superiority of men over women. Of course, it may not be like that now, but way back then to when this play was written, much was different. Shakespeare demonstrates different types of relationships through the characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Like the couple of Lysander and Hermia, Shakespeare shows an extreme love between a man and woman and how the man guides her important life decisions, but with a stubborn father right by their side. Again through Oberon and Titania, Titania wants to seem powerful and “independent” you could say by disobeying Oberon’s wishes. Shakespeare sort of creates a little battle between two authoritative characters but throughout the play put the male, Oberon, on top. Finally, Shakespeare demonstrates what is called gender role reversal between Helena and Demetrius. Helena instead of being lady-like and reserved, pretty much begs for Demetrius’ attention. Shakespeare makes Helena seem desperate throughout the play exemplifying the male has the most say in what goes on. Through these various male and female relationships, Shakespeare illustrates the overall power of males occurring in his time.

Different Aspects of Love Presented in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander + Hermia = True love? Sexual Attraction (Lust) ------------------------------------------------------- Titania + Oberon = Love or hate (Married )

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is the story of a group of workmen preparing a play for the Duke, fairies in the forest and four Athenian lovers. This different groups of characters’ lives become entwined from the magic of the fairies. The characters of Puck, Peter Quince and Helena are characters used in a Midsummer Night’s Dream that show an individual can make a difference. These characters successfully show that an individual can make a difference.

What types of dream really impress you in your life? Would that be funny dreams, weird dreams, scary dreams, risque dreams, dramatic dreams, life-changing dreams, and even lucid dream stories. As a matter of fact, people’s dreams can be a kind of illusion because dreams skew their daily life into confusion—people cannot recognize reality and unreality easily. Similarly, love not only is imaginative, but also can make people get confused just like dream.

There are many characters in a “Midsummers Nights Dream” that could stand out, as the main character, Lysander, however is definitely one of these main characters in the play. Lysander is a lover and is a part of the group of four that focus on their issues with love in this play. Lysander indefinitely relates to the theme of loves difficulty and the nature of romantic love. Although besides the themes of the play being important to understanding Lysander’s character, the way he is portrayed, via. Movie and play matter just as much. Shakespeare has a specific intention for the portrayal of Lysander’s character; there are two movie versions of this play that both have their own portrayal of Lysander. The question that arises from these two different portrayals of Lysander’s character is; how do they relate to Shakespeare’s idea of how Lysander should be portrayed in the play? Is he portrayed correctly? Is the portrayal effective?

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play about four Athenian lovers. Theseus listens to both Hermia and her father’s request and he tells her to bend to her father’s will or die due to the old Athenian law. Hermia and Lysander flee Athens, into the domain of the fairy kingdom. At this time, Oberon is in a fight with Titania. This fight is over a human child of Titania’s friend. Oberon tells Puck, one of his loyal servants, to get a flower hit by Cupid’s arrow, and drop the oil into Demetrius’s and Titania’s eyes. However, Puck drops the oil into Lysander’s eyes due to Oberon’s vague description, making him fall in love with Helena and despise Hermia. Titania falls in love Bottom, who has the head of an ass, after Oberon places the oil

Offering a unique experience, Actors from the London Stage are able to immerse the audience in a delightful presentation that is enhanced with five actors developing multiple personalities as they play multiple parts in each performance. Exactly this has been done in their performance at the UTSA Recital Hall, in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, by William Shakespeare.

For Lysander and Hermia, Eegues disapproval of their relationship affects them so much that without his approval, Hermia can be killed because it’s against Athenian law. This issue was brought up because Eegues wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, but Hermia wants to marry Lysander. Eegues decides to bring it to Theseus who tells her that if she doesn’t follow her father’s decision she can become a nun, follow her father or die. Hermia doesn’t love Demetrius, so she doesn’t want to marry him. Her heart belongs to Lysander, and she proves to him by saying that she would rather die than marry Demetrius. Instead of following the orders that Theseus has given, Hermia and Lysander decide to go elope in the woods where Athenian law can’t touch them. When they run away to the woods, they face some complications due to the love potion that was applied onto Lysander, but no matter what even through the heartbreak Hermia still loves him, she loves him so much that she runs after him to see what was the problem. The couple shows that even through the disapproval of the father, the law against them, and the problems they may face they will always be together because their love for each other is that strong they want to be