A Midsummer Night’s Dream Essay.

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 almo

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)

Although they go through a lot of mixed up emotions and face difficult situations, Helena always seemed to be more mature. This contrasts sharply with Hermia’s more childish behaviour. This is evident in Act3 Scene2 when Hermia wants to fight and Helena doesn’t. Hermia shows here that she is a more aggressive than Helena.

When she finds herself in several awkward positions throughout the play, she always carries herself with certain grace and maturity. She understands the notion of love very well. This may be because out of all the characters, her character thinks most about the nature of love. This is shown at the beginning of the play where Helena is being left out of the love triangle involving Lysander, Hermia and Demetrius. She says, “love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,” (Act 1 Sc. 2). While bearing in mind that Demetrius has high expectations of Hermia’s beauty which is preventing him to see and recognise her beauty. Therefore, here through her language it is evident that she is showing maturity near the end of the play.

Another similarity is that they both feel inferior within themselves. Hermia is self-conscious about her height and through her jealousy of Helena near the end of the play, who now has two suitors after her, she thinks that Helena has used her height to win them over. Helena on the other hand is self-conscious earlier on in the play as she thinks she is ugly, especially compared to

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