Love Lost - Female Submission in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream :: Midsummer Nights Dream

Love Lost - feminine Submission in Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights DreamAfter first seeing a performance of Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream, I would score called it a love story. After reading it several times, I am slight sure what it is. I will take a closer olfactory modality at the behavior and linguistic context of the characters to understand how a comedy with trey marriages and as many as seven lovers almost concludes without a word picture of love that satisfies me. The pairings I consider are Theseus and Hippolyta, Hermia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius, Helena and Hermia, titanium oxide and Oberon, Titania and Bottom, and Pyramus and Thisby.Theseus and Hippolytas relationship is the most dignified in the play. They depute a desire to get along and they are comfortable share-out experiences and feelings important to them (1.1.1-11 4.1.111-126). Theseus tenderly dominates Hippolyta Come, my Hippolyta. What cheer, my love? (1.1.122 4.1.185). Hippolyta however never reciprocates his use of scathe of endearment such as my love and fair queen. In addition, the mythical context of their relationship is foreboding. We are reminded that Theseus is able to marry Hippolyta because he kidnapped her (1.1.16-1.1.19). The mythical Hippolyta subsequent either dies in childbirth, or fighting against the Amazons by Theseuss side, or Theseus leaves her for other woman, Phaedra, and the story gets more sordid after that.1 Theseuss reputation as ravisher of women is addressed in the script (2.1.74-80). And the Amazon method of perpetuating their family line is not romantic.2Our perception of Lysander and Hermias love develops in the following events Hermia chooses to lead a nun rather than submit to marrying the man her father has elect for her Lysander comforts Hermia and shares his political program to elope They lose their way in the woodland and negotiate sleeping arrangements Lysander deserts Hermia to pursue Helena and to kill his rival, Demet rius. date the initial event establishes a traditional love-story scenario, departures from a Cinderella and Prince Charming film occur Hermia responds disrespectfully to the Duke (1.1.53) and Lysander makes a scornful remark to Demetrius and Egeus (1.1.93-94).When Lysander comforts Hermia and they plan to elope, they show they are well-versed in the nature of mythical love (1.1.132-155). That they have this level of awareness contrasts painfully or comically with their later deficiency of self-possession. The exuberance of their rhetoric contrasts with the gravity of their situation, and I cannot conceive of these lines being performed in a way that could evoke deep feeling.