Relationships

Gerald Courtney

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 Shakespeare’s play The Midsummer Night’s Dream demonstrates and defends clearly how strong relationships are between a man and woman who truly love one another are. I changed my question and literary theory question because, after reading the story again and researching for reliable sources with no successful results; it was time to pick a new literary theory. The feminine literary theory related more to the drama because of the gender differences and struggles between the sexes. How does love play a part in the relationships?

 The entire story drama is about two young couples searching for true love from one another, and a fairy couple that had issues with one another over an Indian child. In the drama both the two young girls and fairy woman are dominated by the male characters in the drama. Deleterious is showing and demonstrating the actions of an ill-tempered man who doesn’t get what he wanted which was the love of Hermia. Hermia ran away because she felt powerless and without a chose to choose Lysander who she truly loved and wanted to be with.

 In the time that Shakespeare wrote this play woman did not have much of a say in a matter the man would always have their way and the last say kind of like todays Middle East. Most of the time during Elizabeth’s rule men and woman but, mostly woman had to deal with arranged marriages. Very rarely would a man and woman get to chose who they wanted to marry. In the story Hermia is told by her father that if she does not marry Demetrious that she will be put to death or become a nun. Oberon has issues controlling his fairy wife who won’t give him the Indian child so Oberon tells his servant to retrieve a flower that when squeezed and the liquid placed on the eye lid it will make that person fall in love with the first living thing that he or she sees. He seeks to get even with Titania by making her fall in love with an ass headed man whose name in bottom. In the time that the play was written it was not accustom to have a wife that did not do as the husband would say (elizabethan-era.org).

 In the end of the story after the love spell was lifted form Demetrious and Lysander true love was restored Hermia was the bravest female in the story because she had such strong feeling towards Lysander that she risked everything just to be with him even, the thought of losing her own life. Helena was the strongest because she was willing to put up with Demetrious’s abuses in order to win back his love. Shakespeare created and strong and brave woman who were willing to risk it all to achieve their goals of finding love (greene).

Hermia and Helena are two extraordinary and unique woman who will not stop until they have what they want which is to have true love with the men that they love. In this story the men are restricting the will and wants of both women. It is only through shear rebellion that Hermia and Helena get what they have wanted sense the beginning of the drama.

Work cited

 http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-women.htm http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/437157?

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 Greene, Lenz, Neely, edu.the woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespears. Chicago: University of Illinois press, 1980.