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This 7 page paper examines William Shakespeare’s wonderful play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with regard to the couples in the play who are fighting, why they are doing so, and how the conflicts are resolved.
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of the couples in the play are fighting. This paper discusses which couples are at war, and why; what the effects are and how the conflict is resolved. Discussion Among
the "prizefighters" slugging it out in the play we have two older couples Theseus and Hippolyta and Titania and Oberon; and two pairs of young lovers, Lysander and Hermia and
Demetrius and Helena. The younger pairs only come together after there has been a great deal of trouble, which forms one of the underlying plots of the play. Lysander and
Demetrius are both in love with Hermia; Hermia returns Lysanders love but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. Meantime, poor Helena is pining away for Demetrius, who is convinced
hes in love with Hermia. (It would have helped to keep things straight if Shakespeare had called them Jane and Mabel, instead of giving us two names that sound so
much alike.) At any rate, this quartet does a good deal of fighting, but many of the misunderstandings they go through are due to the interference of Puck and Oberon,
rather than arising out of any substantial issues between the youngsters themselves. As the play opens Egeus, Hermias father, complains to Duke Theseus that Hermia wants to marry Lysander but
that he has forbidden it and told her she must marry Demetrius (Shakespeare). Theseus understands how unhappy Hermia is, but still says he must uphold the law, which "yields you
up / (Which by no means we many extenuate) / To death, or to a vow of single life" (I.i.119-121). That is, if she doesnt obey her father, she can
be put to death or forced to enter a nunnery. She and Lysander agree to run off the next night, and Hermia tells Helena of their plans, assuring her
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