A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a gentle comedy, which tells several stories each one occurring during a single summer night in a magical forest. Here the stage could be imagined to be well decorated with lots of glitter and pretty colours. It is a tale that does not seem to concentrate on themes as well as it does with its ideas. This essay will try to focus on the two important characters Hermia and Helena and try to analyse through their language and behaviour to come up with their similarities and differences of one another.

Helena is a young woman of Athens who is in love with Demetrius in an almost p

Hermia has formed a close friendship with Helena as she comforts her when Helena feels ugly compared to her, “Take comfort. He no more shall see my face…”(Act1 Sc1)

characters, overall it can be concluded that they are in fact nearly identical and interchangeable with one another. Through the help of Puck’s potion, it can be said that they searched for their own identities within one another with and therefore matured through this process and became fully capable to justify themselves in understanding and conquering true love.

Hermia is Egeus’s daughter, a young woman of Athens. She is in love with Lysander as she swears “by Cupid’s strongest bow….”(Act1 Sc1)

Through her love, she seems to adopt a strong mind as she plans to elope with her love. She can also be found assertive as in Act1Sc1 as she stands up to her father when he wants her to marry his suitor; “I would my father looked but with my eyes.” Also through her love her loyalties come out true throughout the play to Lysander, as she believes that Demetrius must have killed Lysander when he abandons her; “Ah good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?” (Act3 Sc2)

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