Strangely, she does not seem to resent her vanquisher, but rather seems just as impatient for their wedding day. ... Hermia wishes to marry the man she genuinely loves, Lysander, while Egeus wishes Hermia to marry Demetrius. ... Rather than marry a man she despises (Demetrius), Hermia elopes with her beloved Lysander, setting off into the Athenian woods, en route to Lysander's aunt's house where they can marry secretly. ... Helena doesn't bear a grudge toward Hermia, nor does she react angrily to Demetrius. ... He marries Hermia, and seems just as reluctant as she is to ask ...

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In the beginning of the play, Hermia is arranged to marry Demetrius by her father, Egeus. ... They converse and Hermia is trying to get her point across that her father would understand why she prefers Lysander if only "my father looked but with my eyes"" (1.1.58). ... Theseus' response shows that women should not be in charge of who they love during Shakespeare's time period, rather they should have the decision made for them. ... Having the female in power of a loving relationship makes her feel as if she is being tricked. Helena exclaims out of frustration "Can you not hate me, as...

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Egeus demands that the law punish Hermia if she fails to comply with his demands. ... She thinks up a plan: if she tells Demetrius of the elopement that Lysander and Hermia are planning, he will be bound to follow them to the woods to try to stop them; if she then follows him into the woods, she might have a chance to win back his love. ... This worries the craftsmen, who reason that if the lion frightens any of the noble ladies in the audience, they will all be executed; since they are only common laborers, they do not want to risk upsetting powerful people. ... Demetrius harangues Helena, ...

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As Theseus deals will legal matters such as trying to calm down Egeus who objects to his daughter marrying Lysander, Oberon is just worried about inconsequential matters such as acquiring Titania's "changeling boy." ... Oberon objects to her statement and defends himself by saying, "How canst thou thus, for shame, Titania, glance at my credit with Hippolyta, knowing I know thy love to Theseus?" ... Thus by taking this boy (who he knows she is very attached to), his will get his revenge, all will go back to normal, and the division between the worlds of order and disorder will become evid...

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In the course of this paper I hope to demonstrate the variety of fairies and how they appear in A Midsummer Night's Dream. ... In each chapter I will discuss how the fairies relate to the topic concerned. ... Beside this choice a director must decide if his/her fairies are close to mankind or alien creatures. ... I will examine the relationship of the fairies with the human world as it is presented in Shakespeare's text and see how Michael Hoffman and Bernard Haitink, Peter Hall and John Bury interpreted it in the play and how they represented the fairies in their screen and stage pr...

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