... him of the elopement that the two have planned. At the given time, Demetrius goes into the woods after his love with Helena in tow. In these woods, we meet our second and third groups of characters, the fairies and the commoners. Composing the fairies are ... will refuse to reverse the charm until she hands over the young indian prince. During their clandestine meeting, Oberon notices Demetrius and Helena coming through the woods with Demetrius acting extremely nasty to Helena. Thinking he could remedy that, he orders Puck to also put some of the juice onto the young man's eyelids so th...

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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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... 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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... play writes that he knew, however many dont look into it. I the beginning there is a love triangle, Hermia loves Lysander who loves her as well, and Helena loves Demetrius (whom she was once engaged to) but he too loves Hermia, leaving one girl with too many, and one with few. There is no protagonist ... be Puck. Oberon(King of the faries) told Puck to put the juice of a flower on the Athenian Boy, so he would fall in love with Helena. However Puck gets confused and puts a spell on Lysander, thinking he was Demetrius. In doing so the mishap happens where when he tried to correct the .....

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... and grooms all had what they wanted and were happy. Why I say this, is because you wouldn't know but I"d like to tell you what I've heard. Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia and Helena were missing for a day. There were witnesses that saw them enter the forest. It was dark by the time Egeus, Theseus and Hippolyta found out. So they decided to search ... were arguments that these four will be unsafe in the forest, after a lot of convincing they all agreed to search tomorrow morning. Most of the convincing was about Hermia and Helena acting like sisters even though they"re not related by blood. ...

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... idea of a true love, an emotion so profound that nothing could overcome it, into nothing more than a frivolous midsummer night's dream. The supposed true love of Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia, and Helena stand out as the most prominent example of the instability of love. The love of these four individuals seems to run their lives. Every action of these four characters seems ... nothing more than love. When Lysander and Hermia plan to meet in the woods Hermia's first response to the idea is to "swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow" (I.i.171). Helena betrays her Hermia's plan to Demetriu...

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... situation became more intense and sometimes very amusing. Another concept that we see in the play is the reversal of role between male and female: Helena chasing Demetrius, when it is usually the male chasing the female. Helena's role transforms from a passive feminine one to an active, assertive masculine one. Flute who is a male had to dress up and act like a female ... ...

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... each other. After all, Lysander and Demetrius both love Hermia so much but with a couple drops of the love potion, they completely forget about her and fall in love with Helena. To fall in and out of love so easily may give the impression to children that love is not a serious thing and can be fabricated effortlessly. Also, Theseus is marrying ... ...

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