Women In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Throughout the play, Helena practically worships Demetrius, despite his obvious hatred towards her. Demetrius asks Helena, “Or rather, do I not in plainest truth, tell you I do not, nor I cannot, love you?” (Shakespeare 2.1.185-186). in which she responds, “And

In William Shakespeare's play, Demetrius does not deserve the love he getting from Helena. Demetrius treats her very badly and led her on after making love to her. Demetrius is chosen by Egeus to marry Hermia. Lysander, who also loves Hermias says that Lysander is “unconstrained and spotted man” because he had an affair with Helena. Demetrius does not deserve the love from helena because he led Helena on and and Helena. Demetrius and Helena meet up in the woods when Demetrius tries to find Hermia, over there demetrius abuses Helena and tries to make her go away from her. This causes Helena to to call herself a spaniel and would love to be hit by Demetrius. Demetrius causes her to lose her own self worth and

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written by William Shakespeare, we are presented Hermia, a young woman of marrying age, who wants to marry her true love Lysander, but her father, Egeus, will not permit their marriage because he believes that another man is amore fit, Demetrius. Although Demetrius and Lysander are of the same social standing, Hermia actually loves Lysander, and Demetrius has been with another woman who is deeply in love with him named Helena, Egeus attempts to use the Athenian law to make Hermia marry Demetrius. Due to the circumstances, Lysander and Hermia run off into the woods to marry and escape Athenian law, but while asleep in the woods, a mischievous fairy, Robin, gives Lysander a love potion, making him fall in love with the first person he sees, which ends up being Hermia’s close friend Helena. This leads to heartbreak, a battle, and a shocking ending, but everything ends well, and along this journey we find many different truths about love. Throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare presents that although love may not always run smoothly, the readers find that power of love can dictate a persons’ decision making and love cannot be controlled by outside forces, like the will of others or the law.

Helena and Hermia have this kind of love and would do anything for each other. It happens that Helena is in love with Demetrius who Hermia is being forced to marry. Demetrius does not want Helena but Hermia. Helena loves her friend Hermia but at the same time wants to get her man.

The role of females in Midsummer Night’s Dream is to remain passive and docile. They are not in charge of their lives. When the play opens, a young woman fights her father for the right to choose her own spouse. Egeus is vexed and he forces Hermia to marry Demetrius despite Hermia loves Lysander. Even Theseus, the king of Athen tells Hermia to obey her father’s will, saying that if Hermia doesn’t marry Demetrius, she will die or be a nun for the rest of her life. There are also stereotypes about traditional gender roles when it comes to romance. Helena has unrequited love to Demetrius, but Demetrius starts to hate her as she continuously asking for love to him, as Helena says, “We cannot fight for love, as men may do; We should be woo’d, and

The play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, involves several different couples; Theseus and Hippolyta, Lysander and Hermia, Helena and Demetrius, Titania and Bottom, and Titania and Oberon. What aspects of love are explored in each of these relationships and what point is Shakespeare trying to make about love. Shakespeare shows love in multiple ways, whether its mature, forbidden, married, spell-bound, or unrequited. By doing this Shakespeare is trying to suggest that love really is an obstacle course that turns us all into madmen.

Love is shown and interpreted in different ways. In William Shakespeare’s novel Midsummer Night Dream, there are many kinds of relationship involving “love”. The theme of love is represented through the relationship between Oberon and Titania, love between Demetrius and Helena, Lysander and Hermia and the friendship love between Hermia and Helena.

Demetrius and Helena were once betrothed, but when Demetrius met Helena’s friend Hermia, he fell in love with her and abandoned Helena. She is not confident of herself because as she stands besides Hermia, she feels self-conscious. Summary of the plot – Hermia and Lysander love each other however they do not have Egeus’, Hermia’s father’s blessing. Also, Hermia was engaged to Demetrius to whom she is not in love with.

From the first act we see that Demetrius only digs Hermia because she is a girl and because he father is wealthy. Demetrius has a history of leaving his lovers in the dust, but Helena is after him for revenge. Helena was Demetrius’ old girlfriend before he had the idea in his mind that he wanted to get with Hermia. Helena is the one who originally brings up the thought that men and women see love differently. She brings this interesting thought to the minds of audiences in her speech of Act 1.

Whereas Helena chases the man of her dreams and Demetrius always puts her down verbally and Helena acts like she doesn't care. Demetrius even tells her that he will physically abuse her. Helena doesn't care as long as Demetrius is touching her. Women should not be the ones running after the women back in those days. They both have the same interests

Notwithstanding the play deeply the female character around their love. Helena chases Demetrius affection. “Helena I am your Spaniel;/ The more you beat me I will fawn on you.” Helena’s character is almost completely defined for her love for Demetrius, accordly even Hermia is largely defined for her love for Lysander. This portrays women as being dependent on a man.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare uses different types of characters to portray different kinds of love. Lysander and Helena, the young lovers, and Oberon and Titania, the Fairy King and Queen, have different definitions of love in their relationship. Lysander and Helena have a pure, matter-of-fact connection. They are in love by default, simply because that is ingrained into their characters. Oberon and Titania, however, have a relationship built more on the basis of control. They play games with each other, trying to get the upper hand in the relationship. In the end, one being in control is more attractive to Oberon than the actual connection between the people in the relationship. This is what draws him to Helena, who possesses a naive and superficial love for Demetrius. Helena is more obsessed with Demetrius than truly in love with him, as there does not seem to be much basis for her infatuation. In the process of loving Demetrius, she deprecates her own character. Oberon appreciates the devotion Helena has for Demetrius and wishes Titania had her qualities, so he pities her, and assists with her conquest of Demetrius. However, his process takes Demetrius’s will away, much like how Oberon sought to humiliate Titania. Although the happy ending is with Helena and Demetrius together, their relationship is more similar to that of Bottom and Titania than Hermia and Lysander, which is what the audience is supposed to infer by their placement in the story.

Shakespeare may be the most known playwright of all time, however, you may be surprised at how many unfair stereotypes this very famous writer incorporated into his plays. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in the late 1500s that portrays events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to the extravagant Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. Such events included Demetrius jilting Helena at the altar and falling in love with Helena’s rival instead, Hermia. However, Hermia is in love with Lysander, not a disdainful youth known as Demetrius. According to feminist theory, the theory that focuses on gender inequality. A Midsummer Night’s Dream would not be considered a feminist empowerment play because throughout the play Shakespeare portrays women as timid/easily frightened. He shows men having more power than women, and perpetuates the unfair stereotype that all women must act a certain way.

However, the plan backfires because Demetrius follows the couple to win Hermia back. Helena states, “As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds,/Had been incorporate, So we grew together,/ Like to a double cherry-“ (3.2.208-210). This quote shows the normal relationship between the two- they are like the same person, obviously meaning that they are very attached. But, the friendship is tarnished after Lysander and Demetrius come into play. The friendship between the two may be rocky, however it is a good example of a foil and is extremely entertaining.

Women have a specific role throughout the Elizabethan society and are known as inferior. In Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Nights Dream, women are told how to act by men, that reveals superiority towards men. This is portrayed by the characters-Hermia, Helena, and Titiana throughout the play. These characters were represented as powerless and blind because they fail to receive what they what and are told what to do countless amounts by the men in the play. Women's’ inferiority in the play makes it impossible for them to achieve true happiness attributable to the superiority the men in the play believe they have.