Yolander Whitson

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 In the 16^th century William Shakespeare wrote a comedy play A Midsummer Nights Dream and compares it to Romeo and Juliet both are about lovers. For this literary analysis I chose to use feminist criticism. The question I chose was how is the relationship between men and women portrayed? In this work there are several relationships ongoing. The first relationship being between Theseus and Hippolyta. They are planning their wedding which is set to take place in four days. Theseus won Hippolyta in a battle, although their relationship has not always so loved the are still planning on get married.

The next relationship is Hermia, who is the daughter Egeus. At the age of 12 and 14 the parents of Hermia has already picked a husband for his daughter. (I, 1). Hermia has two suitors, but she is only in love with one of them. She wants to marry Lysander. “Her father has other plans for her; he states that if she won’t marry Demetrius, she will die.” Theseus believes that Hermia should obey her father, because it is the law of Athens. She is given until the day of Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding to make a decision.

After Lysander starts to come up with a plan for he and Hermia decide to run away to his aunt’s house. The mother tried to tell the father maybe she didn’t love Demetrius and had the right to choose who she loved. The king of the fairies Oberon and Titania . The king of the fairies talked to Puck about putting s spell on Lysander and Demetrius for both of them to fall in love with Hermia. That did not work out right because they began to fight. Helena was trying to stop the two guys from fighting. Then Hermia and Helena past word and said thing to each they didn’t mean.

   Oberon and Titania were always into in the wood like the woods had a spell on them because they would always disagree. Oberon had puck to put a spell on Titania. And when Titania a woke she would fall in love with the first person she saw who was Bottom. Who Puck had turned into a jack ass (III.1). Out of all that Bottom wanted to sing because he was in love with Titania it was like a dream come true. Oberon was still not happy so he had Puck to take the spell off of Lysander and Demetrius so the fall in love the right girl. Also take the spell off of

Titania because Oberon really loved her.

Works Cited

Shakespeare, William.A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream.6June2012. Retrieved from: www.Cliffnotes.com/study_guide/literature/a_midsummer_nights_dream/play_summary.html

Shmoop Editorial Team. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 8 Jun. 2012.