Passion In A Midsummer Night's Dream

A vital point in, A Midsummer Night's Dream is using control along with manipulation to gain love. Helena attempts to control Demetrius by betraying her friends in hopes that he would fall for her. Routinely, Helena tries to gain Demetrius’s love for instance, when she asserts, “Stay though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius!”(Shakespeare.86.1.70). Demetrius then responds with, “I change thee hence, and do not haunt me thus” (Shakespeare.87.1.70). Despite him being

Emotions are what propel you forward to reach your goal, but what also stop you from breaking your limits. They are what weigh into our decisions and help lead us to the choices we forever live with. Not only can they determine what we do, but also when and how we do it. At times they are stronger than others, pulling us forward or throwing us back as if we have absolutely no control. Just like in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the entire lives of two teenagers led by the emotions that they couldn’t ignore. Consequently, this leads them to make decisions that are irreversible, and significant. Decisions that change the lives of not only themselves, but the ones who love them. It opened the eyes of those who had been blinded by hatred, changing the way they viewed the delicate concept of life and death. The power of their emotions was so strong, that there was no escaping them. In the play, Shakespeare displays the power of emotions by the actions of not only Romeo and Juliet, but their families as well. The strength of their emotions are strong enough to cause them happiness, chaos, and eventually tragedy.

Toba Beta once said: "“Justice could be as blind as love.”  Shakespeare 's play A Midsummer Night 's Dream captures the blindness of both love and justice.  Egeus, a respected nobleman in Athens, arranged for his daughter, Hermia, to marry nobleman Demetrius.  Egeus tells his daughter that she must obey his wishes: If she does not, she can either choose to become a nun, or die.  Hermia, much to her father 's dismay, is deeply in a mutual love with a different nobleman, Lysander.  In addition, Hermia 's childhood best friend and Demetrius were in love prior to his sights turning towards Hermia.  This crushed Helena, causing her to lose self-confidence, but still: she yearns for Demetrius 's love.  Hermia and Lysander 's love, Egeus 's harsh rule, and Helena 's unrequited love for Demetrius causes the lovers to leave Athens.   Various factors cause the lovers to run away together.

Again they are deliriously in love because of the love drug. In the beginning of the play neither of the males want anything to do with Helena, she is blindly chasing after Demetrius desperate for his attention, but he brushes her off. Oberon orders puck to put the spell on Demetrius. “Thou shalt know the man by the Athenian garments he hath on.” (II, i ln 42 & 43) Puck inevitably puts the spell on Lysander, the wrong man. Once Oberon tells him he made a mistake, Puck endeavors off to fix it also putting the spell on Demetrius. When Lysander and Demetrius are drugged the first person they see is Helena, who they both dislike. Helena takes this as a trick and attacks Hermia who is just as confused. The cause of this is once again Oberon. he had Puck drug them for his enjoyment and to help out Helena who he takes pity on. He takes pity on her because no one loves her, and because he feels bad about Demetrius brushing her off. Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia have a crazy and complicated love square that gets even more complicated throughout the play.

A story of love, cut short by a small part of unfortunate and sad death, as this is the story of Romeo and Juliet. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, there are two lovers that cannot be together because of their families past. In current day, the rivalry has nothing to do with Romeo and Juliet themselves, as it is just an unfortunate coincidence that forbids the two from being with each other. In the play, Romeo at times acts very impulsively to fill his desires, and get what he wants. However, through doing this, he only fixes a situation immediately, and does not fix any issues in the long run of things. Romeo reacts this way to many of these situations in the story. Acting impulsively for one’s desires leads to many bad events because it does

In the text a Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare despite an individual's predominantly positive interpretation of themselves, there are those who catapult into a sunken abyss of low self-esteem due to a cynical perception of the world around them while others may perceive them in a more optimistic light which shows an ample difference in perception.

Theseus and Hippolyta wake up Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius because Hermia has to make her final decision. With the love juice on his eyelids still, Demetrius confesses that he no longer loves Hermia and wants Helena to be the love of his life. Theseus overrides Egeus’s wishes, and he says the three couples will have a triple wedding. After Theseus, Hippolyta, and Egeus leave, all of them are unclear what exactly happened. Helena even says, “And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,/mine own, and not mine own” (4.1.176-177). She is making an analogy, saying that Demetrius is like a diamond that she found. She possesses it since she found it, but someone can easily come and take the diamond away and claim it as their own instead. She only has Demetrius’s love because of the love spell on him, for he doesn’t actually love her without it. Helena isn’t totally bought in with this idea of love because of the mistreatment she received from it earlier in the

Theseus, Egeus, and Demetrius use their power, both as nobles and men, to try and force Hermia into marrying Demetrius. Egeus, in an attempt to bully Hermia into marrying Demetrius says, ‘‘‘She is mine, and all my right of her I do estate unto Demetrius’’’ (1.1.97-98). He sees his power as Hermia’s father as a way to force her into a marriage that will benefit him. This love, thrown upon her by the law, is very

Toba Beta once said: "“Justice could be as blind as love.”  Shakespeare 's play A Midsummer Night 's Dream captures the blind bias of both love and justice.  Egeus, a respected nobleman in Athens, arranged for his daughter, Hermia, to marry nobleman Demetrius.  Egeus tells his daughter that she must obey his wishes: if she does not, she can either choose to become a nun, or die.  Hermia, much to her father 's dismay, is deeply in a mutual love with a different nobleman, Lysander.  In addition, Hermia 's childhood best friend and Demetrius were in love prior to his sights turning towards Hermia.  This crushed Helena, causing her to lose self-confidence, but still: she yearns for Demetrius 's reciprocated love.  Lysander and Hermia are in love with each other.  Egeus does not approve of his daughter 's chosen love.  The couple wishes for Helena to be happy with Demetrius.

In the play A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare, many of the characters relentlessly pursue their goals in the face of illogical decisions, and, while fictional items such as the “love-in-idleness” flower are used to explain the character’s sudden love for each other, the play does illustrate how love and ambition can lead to unforeseen consequences. For example, when Puck accidently anointed Lysander’s eyes with the “love-in-idleness” juice, he started a chain of events leading to Lysander and Demetrius fighting over Helena while Hermia is treated as though she is worthless. Moreover, at one point, Lysander and Demetrius even threatened to duel each other when Lysander awoke after being anointed with the flower 's juice and said, "Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word is that vile name to perish on my sword" (61). This shows how the character’s love for certain other characters, and their ambition to pursue said love, can lead to the destruction of previous relationships and lead them to make dangerous decisions. Another example of the characters making illogical decisions because of their ambition is in the beginning of the play when Egeus takes Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius to Theseus and asks him to force his daughter to marry Demetrius lest she becomes a nun or faces death. While Egeus uses the possible death sentence as simply a threat and does not mean to actually execute his daughter, his ambition does blind him from seeing his daughter’s feelings and

What is Hermia Like? She is described as an independent individual who wants nothing but to follow her heart, but here’s the catch… That is not what her dad wants for her! She is better yet characterized as Feisty;She knows what she wants and does what it takes to get it, she was even prepared to give up on her family and way of life to marry Lysander. In this play she can be Defensive (Compelled to fight for her love and was willing to fight her friend) “O me, you juggler, you canker blossom, you thief of love- what have you come by night and stol’n my love heart from him.”( Act 3 scene 2 lines 283-284) But also Filled with integrity (Asking Lysander to sleep further away)“But Gentle friend, for love and courtesy lie further off in humane

Passion is a powerful emotion that plays a huge part in the decisions we make. Passion may seem beneficial, but ultimately leads to destruction, and it doesn't matter whether it is love or hate both can make an individual reckless and blind. In William Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet”, many of the characters make rash choices because passion interferes with their capability to reason and this not only affects the individual but also others around them. This thesis will be proven by the analysis of Romeo, Tybalt, Mercutio, actions that are driven by passionate love or hate and how it has affected the other characters of the play. The power of passionate love is illustrated in the play through Romeo’s love for Rosaline and Juliet, which let him to make certain decisions

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare is filled with many mixed emotions and lots of different themes. Although there are many different themes that readers can interpret, one that really stands out is that love is difficult. This theme is supported when Hermia 's father tries to tear Hermia and Lysander apart and they decide the best decision is to run away together. Also Oberon and Titania can 't stand each other and always get into arguments. The love potion throughout the play messed up Titania and Oberon’s true love. With many of the different scenes throughout the play, the theme of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is that love is difficult.

In William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream the circumstances surrounding love have been put into question, this occurs when a magical nectar is put in the eyes of three major characters, and changes their feelings towards the people in their lives. Titania, Lysander and Demetrius all have had the nectar put into their eyes, though Demetrius avoids having this done to him in act 2 scene 2 which is the scene that the focus of this paper will be looking at. Throughout the play, we focus largely on the love life of Helena, which unfortunately does not seem to exist. She is in love with Demetrius, whom does not care for her in the same way, he does not cherish her at all before he is under the influence of magic. Once Lysander declares

1. As both characters use very different sounding language (Helena’s declarations of love versus Demetrius’ declarations of disgust), how can the mood of this passage be determined?