Midsummer Nights Dresm Essay

A Midsummers Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare is about four young lovers from Athens that fall in and out of love with each other under the influence of a magic love flower. This play shows that love isn’t always as it seems. This is shown through the characters of Hermia and Helena.

For Helena love is unfair and non mutual,so she feels worthless and jealous,this is because she thinks that Hermia is no better than her and that Demetrious should love her and not Hermia. Helena feels sad because she tries so hard to get Demetrious to love her and would do anything for him and yet he still loves Hermia, she  would give anything to be Hermia this is shown in act 1; “were the world mine, Demetrius being bated the rest I’d give to be you translated”.

Helena also has no self-confidence because she feels that if Demetrius does not love her then she must be ugly and worthless, this is not true because everyone else in Athens  thinks she is just as beautiful as Hermia this is also shown in act 1; “How happy some o’er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so; he will not know what all but he do know”. The writer shows these emotions through good structure and by using siliquis

For Hermia love is unfair, controlled, and fulfilled so she feels confused. Her father has forced her to marry a man she does not love so she is determined to make him change his mind and let her marry the man she truly loves ,but her father does not agree because he thinks he can do as he likes with her because she is his child and he owns her “as she is mine i may dispose of her; which will either be to this gentleman (Demetrius) or to her death”. Hermia wishes that her father could see from her perspective this is shown in act 1; “i would my father looked but with my eyes”.

Hermia’s love with Lysander and Demetrius however is different she loves lysander and Lysander