... yet married. ay good Lysander, for my sake, my dear. Lie further off yet, do not lie so near. Oberon, the fairy king, was watching Helena chasing Demetrius in the woods. She was chasing Demetrius and did not leave him alone although he spoke very cruelly to her. Love thee not therefore pursue me ... were asleep, Puck mistakenly applies the juice to Lysander? Eyes, thinking he was Demetrius. Needs of Athens he doth wear. This is he, my master said. Helena did no longer keep up with Demetrius. Left behind, she saw Lysander lying on the ground and thought he may be wounded or dead, so she w...

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... 't confuse Demetrius with anyone else. After this conversation Puck went and placed the love juice on Lysander who was not the disdainful youth Oberon was meaning. Helena later came along and tripped over Lysander while he slept, and Lysander falls in love with her. He awakes saying "And run through fire I will for ... thy sweet sake. Transparent Helena! Nature shows art that through thy bosom makes me see thy heart. Where is Demetrius? Oh how fit a word is that vile name, to perish on ... is now left with strange thoughts of what happened in the forest. Oberon also causes Demetrius to ...

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... 's father, forbids the relationship with Lysander and orders her to marry Demetrius. Demetrius loves Hermia, but she does not love him. On the other hand, Helena is in love with Demetrius. To settle the confusion, Theseus decides that Hermia must marry Demetrius or become a nun. In retaliation to her father's command, ... the first creature that they see. Oberon's plan is carried out, but the potion is also placed on Lysander's eyes. Lysander awakes to see Helena, who is aimlessly walking through the woods, and instantly falls in love with her. She thinks that he is making fun of her bei...

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... you climb up the social ladder, women gain respect - slightly. The other women in the play exert far more influence through their actions and versus their words. For example, Helena and Hermia are most in control when the men are chasing them. As soon as the men realize they have the women, Hermia and ... Helena loose their influence, introducing us to the next of the upper class in the production - the four young lovers. It is important to have an understanding of each of ... the young lovers to fully grasp the story, especially the women. Helena is desperately in love with Demetrius....

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... Lysander suggests a plan of running away from the border of Athens( free from the Athens" laws). It may be an excellent plan but I think Hermia has made a mistake for telling Helena (who envies her beauty) about the situation, or else it will be less complicate. So, besides the problem of Demetrius hunting for this particular couple, the help of an absent ... views. They also have gone through quite an obstacle which usually lovers do face. The conflict arises when Demetrius changes his mind for Hermia's outer (physical appearance) beauty instead of Helena. Moreover, he is given the ful...

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... even executed. After that, Hermia and Lysander make plans to escape Athens and marry at Lysander's aunt's house. Lysander and Hermia tell Helena, who is in love with Demetrius, of their plans to elope. Helena then tells Demetrius of Lysander and Hermia's planned elopement, and Demetrius storms into the woods after his love, and ... the flower and Oberon tells him of his plans to spread its juice on Titania's sleeping eyelids. Oberon had seen how horribly that Demetrius was to Helena and ordered Puck to spread some if its juice on Demetrius"s eyes. Puck goes out to find Demetrius and finds...

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... out the true natural instincts of the people while they are in the woods, with it being night time the atmosphere seems uncertain and unstable. Helena tells Demetrius of Helena and Lysander's plan to run away in hopes to win his heart, again. She and Demetrius follow them into the woods. While in there ... they are all bewitched by the fairies and thrown into a triangle that switches the eyes of the men from Hermia to Helena. Thinking it is all a cruel joke Helena runs away. While the fairies sit back and watch all these things happen they have their own battles going on. The fairy king...

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... as well as Puck, his mischievous fairy helper. Oberon then happens to overhear a conversation between Helena, and the man she loves, Demetrius. After Demetrius makes it painfully obvious that he has absolutely no positive feelings for Helena, Oberon decides he is going to intervene by having Puck anoint Demetrius's eyes with a flower that ... of Demetrius, it sets the stage for a great deal of chaos. It is amongst this chaos that Puck says to Oberon: "Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand: And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant s...

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... are involved in are strongly male-dominated. The power of men and weakness of women are seen through the characters of Hippolyta, Hermia, Titania, and Helena, and the relationships that they are in. The first female character that Shakespeare portrays as weak is Hippolyta. Hippolyta is married to Thesus, who "wooed ... . Hermia also displays weakness to some extent within her relationship with Lysander. For example, when Puck causes Lysander to fall in love with Helena, Hermia is completely torn apart by her belief that he has abandoned her. She comes to the conclusion that he no longer ...

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... is sleeping. When the person awakens, he or she will fall in love with the first person they see. The first love transformation occurs when Lysander awakens to Helena, his soon-to-be wife's good friend (Act II, scene ii, lines 103-107). The second transformation occurs when Titania awakens to see Bottom, who ... of the play, both Demetrius and Lysander were in love with Hermia, although she was only in love with Lysander (Act I, scene i, lines 22-45). Helena, was in love with Demetrius, but he did not like heart all (Act II, scene i, lines 188-194). By the middle of Act II, because ... ...

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... magic flower used by the sprite Puck. Oberon, king of the Fairies, sends Puck for the flower to satisfy his personal whims and to also aid Helena and her helpless devotion to Demetrius. This magic flower, when applied to the eyes of a slumbering person, causes that person to fall madly in Love ... consents to Oberon's wish. Puck is also directed to apply the flower to Demetrius, the object of Helena's affection. Puck, in his characteristically blundering fashion, applies the flower to Lysander, the Love of Helena's friend Hermia. After realizing his mishap, Puck applies the flower to Dem...

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... with a man named Egeus who orders his daughter Hemia to marry Demetrius. She doesn't want to because she is in love with Lysander. Demetrius loves Hermia, but Helena who is Hermia's friend is in love with Demetrius. To settle the confusion, Theseus decides that Hermia must marry Demetrius or become a nun. In retaliation to her ... fall in love with the first person that she sees. Puck also places the potion in the eyes of Lysander who has now fallen in love with Helena. Puck runs in to Hermia and Demetrius while they are bickering and decides that he will use the potion on Demetrius so ...

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... magic flower used by the sprite Puck. Oberon, king of the Fairies, sends Puck for the flower to satisfy his personal whims and to also aid Helena and her helpless devotion to Demetrius. This magic flower, when applied to the eyes of a slumbering person, causes that person to fall madly in Love ... consents to Oberon's wish. Puck is also directed to apply the flower to Demetrius, the object of Helena's affection. Puck, in his characteristically blundering fashion, applies the flower to Lysander, the Love of Helena's friend Hermia. After realizing his mishap, Puck applies the flower to Dem...

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... her father to become engaged to Demetrius. Lysander and Hermia decide to escape from Athens that very evening, and tell Hermia's very good friend Helena of their plan. Helena, in a desperate attempt to make Demetrius fall in love with her, tells him of the two lovers plans ... , in a delightful twist, Puck places daps from a flower over the eyes of the sleeping lovers, and accidentally causes both Lysander and Demetrius to fall in love with Helena, and no longer desire Hermia. In another scene, there is a rehearsal-taking place for a play that Nick Bottom and his friends will have to act...

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... Lee and Dereck Townsend played the first set of lovers, Hermia and Lysander. Elena Shokhina and Baris Erhan played the second set of lovers, Helena and Demetrius. Some other important characters were Thesus, played by Aaron Orlowski, Hypolita, played by Clarice Geissel, Oberon, played by Kyu Dong Kwak ... In the final portion of the first act a series of pas de deux are performed between Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius. Their tangled web of love is shown as Helena displays her affection for Demetrius, while Demetrius expresses his love for Hermia, and while Hermia and Lysander pr...

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... She is in fact quite domineering. This inexorably rubs off onto Theseus. Also with the two different sides of love are the lovers themselves. Helena is rather cynical about love. Because her lover, Demetrius, has recently rejected her, she is sceptical when she is actually loved. This is due ... result of Puck's oversight, and pouring the love juice into Lysander's eyes instead of Demetrius's eyes, "Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?- Helena actually thinks that everybody is scheming against her, "I see you all are bent to set against me for your merriment."" Lysander and Hermia...

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... falter in the face of controversy. She remains faithful in her love for Lysander even when Lysander dotes on Helena because of the love juice. It shows strong character for Hermia to persist in her love for Lysander even after his affections have turned ... to Helena because of the potion. Hermia instead turns her furies to Helena, blaming her for the change in Lysander, accusing her of stealing him away. Hermia and Lysander's love is ... the model for the message the play radiates that love conquers all. The relationship that evolves between Demetrius and Helena is less complex. It se...

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... reflected in Act Four. Earlier in the play, we have already been introduced to the interchangeability of the characters. Lysander and Demetrius, Helena and Hermia, each of them switches roles and becomes the other person. One of the primary ways that Shakespeare indicates maturity is to ... it is necessary for them to become distinct from one another. After all, Lysander and Demetrius have been able to shift their love the Helena without noticing any difference whatsoever. Perhaps the most famous line from A Midsummer Nights Dream is when Puck remarks, "Lord, what fools these mortals ....

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... love with Lysander. Egeus, Hermia's father, forbids the relationship with Lysander and orders her to marry Demetrius. Demetrius loves Hermia, but she does not love him. On the other hand, Helena is in love with Demetrius. To settle the confusion, Theseus decides that Hermia must marry Demetrius or become a nun. In retaliation to her father's command, Hermia and Lysander run away ... victim to desperately in love with the first creature that they see. Oberon's plan is carried out, but the potion is also placed on Lysander's eyes. Lysander awakes to see Helena, who is aimlessly walking th...

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... people as fools. He aims for humor and laughter. Puck apparently has magical fairy power. He meddles in the love affairs pertaining to Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrious. He also conveys that he enjoys taking the form of animals. Though he performs magic, he does it at the request of Oberon, ... nothing out of the ordinary of it. Though Puck and Nick Bottom may be personable characters, the main events revolve around the four young lovers. Helena is head over heels in love with Demetrious, though he has feelings for Hermia. She plans to win back Demetrious's heart by telling him of...

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... her as well, however Demetrius also loved Hermia and that its who her father wants her to marry. Yet to make the situation even more complicated, Helena loves Demetrius but she repulses him. But the love affairs are changed when they all flee to the woods, and they have their fates in the hands ... of the fairies. Oberon wanted Puck to cast the magical love flower into the eyes of his wife, Titania, and Demetrius so that he return Helena's passion for him. So Puck puts it on the eyes of Titania and she falls madly in love w/ Bottom, who had been turned into an ass ... head. However, Pu...

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... the flower that will turn her back to normal and he has Puck return Bottom to his normal state. Oberon also shows his kindness when he tries to help poor Helena who loves Demetrius, who doesn't love her. Oberon has Puck find the Athenian couple when they are asleep and put the flower on Demetrius's eyes so he will love ... Helena. Puck goes about his business, but winds up putting the flower on the wrong Athenian couple. He puts it on Lysander who is already deeply in love with Hermia. When ... Lysander wakes up and sees Helena he forgets Hermia and falls in love with Helena. To Oberon...

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... support Lysander and Hermia's relationship, but then again because of the issues with Egeus, an Elizabethan audience may disagree with their relationship because her father, Egeus, does not condone it. Helena's desperate and unrequited love for Demetrius represents much more than a foolish girl in love; 'Use me as your spaniel: strike me, spurn me' represents the sacrifices women had to ... make for marriage in Elizabethan times. With men being 'superior' and marriages often being arranged, women had little say in whom they actually loved. Helena's use of the word 'spanie...

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... potion on Lysander's eyelids and he creates pure comedy when he turns Bottom's head into that of an ass. However the magic does resolve the love rectangle between, Demetius, Hermia, Helena, and Lysander. Conflict in romantic relationships is one reoccurring theme in this play. Often in the play's romantic relationships, disparity or inequality conflicts with the balance in the relationship. One ... such example is that of the four young lovebirds; Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius, they are involved in a love rectangle. Two of the men are in love with Hermia and neither of them is...

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... changing). I will also give support to my categorizations, explaining if the presentation of the characters is direct or indirect. The first character that I think was important in the story is Helena. She really thinks about love in a mindset nature, saying that it is in the mind and not in the eyes. She is a developing character when she steps into the woods ... the very first scene with the difficulty of Hermia committing to Demetrius, even if Egeus and Theseus thought it was the proper thing to do. It holds true again with Helena in love with Demetrius, even if he loves Hermia. One ...

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