Love Struck Characters
Forbidden Love:
This love is exhibited by Hermia, Lysander, Pyramus, and Thisbe. Hermia and Lysander are exibitors because Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius but she is in love with Lysander but they can not be together because of the Athenian law that gives her father Egeus the right to chose her husband. Pyramus and Thisbe are character from the play inside a play, they love each other dearly but they cannot be together because of their families and they both end up dead at the end of the play.
Unrequited Love:
This love was exemplified by the characters Helena and Demetrius. Helena is in love with Demetrius but he loves Hermia and so she decides to help him with Hermia so that she could still be close to him. This is Helena's sad attempt to later on win his affection.
Conquering Love:
The Duke of Athens, Theseus wins the hand of his wife Hippolyta through battle rather than having actual affections for her, this means that it did not have to be Theseus but rather any man that had won the battle was the person she would marry.
Jealous Love:
Oberon and Titania's love is contentious because Titania pays attention to others more than him. When Titania adopts a changeling boy, Oberon demands that the boy is his but when she refuses he pours love potion on her and has her fall in love with a monster.
In the many relationships with these characters, true love is not found.
This love is exhibited by Hermia, Lysander, Pyramus, and Thisbe. Hermia and Lysander are exibitors because Hermia's father wants her to marry Demetrius but she is in love with Lysander but they can not be together because of the Athenian law that gives her father Egeus the right to chose her husband. Pyramus and Thisbe are character from the play inside a play, they love each other dearly but they cannot be together because of their families and they both end up dead at the end of the play.
Unrequited Love:
This love was exemplified by the characters Helena and Demetrius. Helena is in love with Demetrius but he loves Hermia and so she decides to help him with Hermia so that she could still be close to him. This is Helena's sad attempt to later on win his affection.
Conquering Love:
The Duke of Athens, Theseus wins the hand of his wife Hippolyta through battle rather than having actual affections for her, this means that it did not have to be Theseus but rather any man that had won the battle was the person she would marry.
Jealous Love:
Oberon and Titania's love is contentious because Titania pays attention to others more than him. When Titania adopts a changeling boy, Oberon demands that the boy is his but when she refuses he pours love potion on her and has her fall in love with a monster.
In the many relationships with these characters, true love is not found.
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