William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," is a story about the ways men and women interact with each other. ... In a father and daughter's relationship, the daughter ought to obey her father, which is supported by law. ... This quote shows that, in a daughter's marriage, there was no freedom to make a personal choice. The husband will be chosen by the father. ... Hermia decides to elope with Lysander in order to oppose her father. ...

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In the two stories, there are many paralleled similarities that are very noticeable, and some that aren't as noticeable. First and foremost, the two stories are about star crossed lovers, one with a single pair, being Romeo and Juliet, and the other with two pairs, Lysander and Hermia, and then Demetrius and Helena, though Demetrius sought after Hermia love until the love spell with put upon him. ... In Midsummer Night's Dream, Lysander and Hermia are in love, but Hermia's father forbids their matrimony and gives only Demetrius his daughter's hand in marriage. ...

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Love and Fancy The difference in the words love and fancy can lead to many contrasts when they are brought about in a story. ... Even as Hermia's father, Egeus, forbade their love, they held onto their true feelings for each other. ... (Pg. 7) Egeus wanted his daughter to marry Demetrius, even though Hermia did not love him or envy him as she did Lysander. ... If thou lovest me, then, Steal forth thy father's house tomorrow night." ... Hermia was willing to go against her fathers will, and run away to marry a man he did not see fit for his daughter. ...

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Be it a father's affection for his daughter, one's love for their soul mate, or the obsession for a child, love can be found as the source of problems throughout William Shakespeare's, A Midsummer Nights Dream. ... It is important to have an understanding of each of the young lovers to fully grasp the story, especially the women. ... He gets so wrapped up in Hermia's beauty, that he breaks his engagement with Helena and then asks Hermia's father for his daughter's hand. ... She is madly in love with Lysander, but Egeus, Hermia's father, has promised her to De...

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Egeus complained to the Duke of Athens that his daughter is refusing to marry Demetrius, her father Choice. Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia. ... Daughter, Helena. ... Father, wanted Hermia to marry Demetrius and if she doesn't? ... It was interrupted when Egeus complained to the Duke of Athens, that his daughter is refusing to marry Demetrius, her father? ...

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The other couple in the story that are of royal blood are Oberon, the king of the fairies, and Titania, the queen of the fairies. ... Lysander and Hermia wish to marry each other but Hermia's father, Egeus, will not allow it. Egeus wishes his daughter to marry Demetrius so he brings the matter to the attention of the king in hope that the law will be enforced. The law states that Hermia must marry whomever her father chooses or be put to death or live the rest of her life as a nun. ... It is the story of two more lovers Pyramus and Thisbe. ...

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At first Hermia is in love with Lysander and he loves her as well, however Demetrius also loved Hermia and that its who her father wants her to marry. ... Many things change in the play such as who people are in love with, Bottom being changed into an ass, Egeus's opinion of who his daughter should marry, Bottom being made back into a human, who the fairies are in love with, and the change between love and reality within the woods and Athens. ... The order is shown when Hermia's father tells her whom she has to marry. He brings her to the Duke of Athens, and he by law was require...

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Egeus, a citizen of Athens, strides into the room, followed by his daughter Hermia and the Athenian youths Lysander and Demetrius. Egeus has come to see Theseus with a complaint against his daughter: although Egeus has promised her in marriage to Demetrius, who loves her, Lysander has won Hermia's heart, and Hermia refuses to obey her father and marry Demetrius. ... Theseus admits that he has heard this story, and he takes Egeus and Demetrius aside to discuss it. ... Quince tells the group what play they are to perform: The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe...

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She now belongs to another man who is not her father; she is restricted to her virginity and this confinement is not her choice. 
... When Prospero recounts her story, we see that she is an independent woman who maintains her power even after having had sex. ... A recurring theme in Shakespeare's plays is men using their daughters to establish political alliances. ... This is imposed by her father, a symbol of patriarchal power. Prospero's plotting, in The Tempest, can also be used as an example, though he is more subtle and attuned to his daughter's desires.

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William Shakespeare is a literary legend; composing dozens of plays, poems and short stories - mostly about love, incest, murder, tragedy and infidelity. ... Brabantio believes Othello, has swayed Desdemona with his dark magic, "My Daughter! Oh my Daughter!" ... Desdemona boldly speaks up to her father; "My duty is to the Moor now. ... Brabantio accepts his daughter's decision and joins their hands together, "Come Hither Moor, I here do give thee that with all my heart,"" (Shakespeare 789.) ...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a gentle comedy, which tells several stories each one occurring during a single summer night in a magical forest. ... Hermia is Egeus's daughter, a young woman of Athens. ... She can also be found assertive as in Act1Sc1 as she stands up to her father when he wants her to marry his suitor; "I would my father looked but with my eyes." ... For example in Act1 Scene1 Helena takes a lot of verbal abuse from Demetrius but that stills doesn't change her feeling for him, and Hermia shows this similarity as she stands up to her father and elopes. ...

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Egeus, a nobleman, enters the room accompanied by his daughter Hermia, the man that she loves named Lysander, and the man Egeus wants her to marry named Demetrius. He begs Theseus for the ancient Athenian right to either make his daughter marry Demetrius or have the power to kill her. ... In this early beginning of the play the first conflict is between father and daughter and the battle against arranged marriage and for passionate love. ... Even though the play involves a number of romance elements, it is not truly a love story it does not give me a lot of emotions from the characters. ...

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He is asked by Egeus, an Athenian father, to command a marriage between Hermia, Egeus' daughter, and Demetrius, a young Athenian man who loves her (and whose love is not returned). Theseus bids Hermia obey her father, or else be sent to a convent. ... He asks Theseus to arbitrate in his dispute with his daughter over her proper marriage. ... Hermia Egeus' daughter is a headstrong girl, willing to defy not only her father but also the Duke of Athens himself in the name of true love. ... In the end, Hermia gets what she wants: marriage to Lysander with the approval of her...

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The representation of fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream has, through history, been influenced by external factors such as folkloristic stories about fairies; contemporary beliefs and artistic influences from previous adaptations or foreign cultures. ...

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Egeus, Hermia's father, forbids the relationship with Lysander and orders her to marry Demetrius. ... In retaliation to her father's command, Hermia and Lysander run away together. ... (Scott 370-373) Male domination not only exists between husband and wife, but also between father and daughter. ... In this area, legends, myths, and impossible stories originate. ... The fairies bring the stories to you from the East. ...

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