Doesn't approve of Hermia and Lysander

Wants Hermia to marry Dimitrius

Uses his parental authority against her.

"As she is mine, I may dispose of her; Which shall be either to this gentleman / Or to her death, according to our law / Immediately provided in that case." (1.1.44-47).

Loves Lysander

Does NOT love Dimitrius

Dreams of a snake wrapped around her and Lysander just watches and laughs.

Takes her anger out on Helena instead of Lysander bc that's how much love and faith she had in him.

Accuses Demetrius of killing Lysander, willing to die if that was the case

"What! Can you do me greater harm than hate? / Hate me! Wherefore? O me! What news, my love? / Am not I Hermia? Are not you Lysander? / I am as fair now as I was erewhile. / Since night you loved me; yet since night you left me. / Why then, you left me, -O, the gods forbid!- / In earnest, shall I say?" (3.2.278-284).

Loves Hermia

Plans to marry her in the woods, away from the law

Falls for Helena, he's under the spell

Leaves Hermia in the woods

Later is healed by love potion

Potions effects show how love can be easily manipulated by outside forces, feelings are never constant and are forever changing.

Compares hermia's love to sweetness, too sweet he's gotten sick of it.

Words spoken to Helena are the same, if not sweeter than towards Hermia.

"The course of true love never did run smooth." (1.1.138)

"Things growing are not ripe until their season; / So I, being young, till now ripe not o reason; / And touching now the point oh human skill, Reason becomes the marshal to my will." (2.2.118-121).

"Why seek'st thou me? Could not this make thee know, / The hate I bare thee made me leave thee so?" (3.2.191-192).

Dated Helena, dropped her for Hermia

Loves Hermia

Has Egeus's approval to marry Hermia

Never gets healed from the love potion

• Is this love valid?

  • Not really, effect may wear off one day and will fall out of love

  • love isn't the same as attraction.

  • attraction will draw the eyes away from love and see with only the eyes and not the heart.

Falls for Helena again after the potion is put on him

Lysander ends up like him when his love suddenly disappears and he chases another woman

Loves Dimitrius

Snitches to Dimitrius what Hermia's plan is, hoping this will get him to love her again

"Things base and vile, holding no quantity, / Love can transpose to form and dignity." (1. 1. 237-238)

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;" (.......)

When the situation flips and everyone now loved her, she feels mocked and betrayed.

"Is all the council that we two have shared, / The sister's vows, the hours we have spent, / When we have child the hasty-footed time / For parting us, - O, is all forgot?" (3.2.199-203).

Her devotion to her 'love' is just as strong as Hermia's. Both are willing to go to extremes to love them.

Willing to be treated as a dog if it meant Demetrius would love her again.

Duke of Athens

Earned the right to marry Hippolyta, defeated her in a battle

Uses his authority to force his control over her and then to compel Hermia to an ultimatum

"You can either endure the livery of a nun, / For aye to be shady cloister mew'd. / To live a barren sister all your life, / Chanting faint hymms to the cold fruitless moon." 1.1.73-76).

"To you your father should be as a god; / Othe that composed your beauties; yea, and one / To whom you are but as a form in wax, / By him imprinted, and within his power / To leave the figure, or disfigure it." (1.1.49-54).

Planning their wedding in act one

is more scared, in a healthy way, of his wife.

Their love kinda weird, its kinda force but it makes sense bc ppl can still fall in love w/ each other with time.

Amazonian Queen

Doesn't want to marry Theseus, but needs to bc she lost in a duel.

She shows her silent support to Hermia by doing the sig of the cross on her forehead

in the end comes to 'love' ,tolerate, but also very playful and no longer resentful towards Theseus

Again, relationship was forced, but time brings their heart tg.

She had an affair with Oberon before

Affair w/ Hippolyta (previously)?

Jealous of the Indian boy under Titania's care

Orders Puck to find love in idleness flower

All he wanted was the Indian boy

Their lovers quarrel caused natural disasters within the Human world.

Jealousy is a driving force that causes conflict within love

Affair w/ Theseus (previously)?

She is the queen of fairies

Takes care of a little Indian boy bc his mother was her votress (worshipper)

Under the spell of the 'Love in Idleness' flower, she falls in love with Nick Bottom as a donkey

• Offers him fairies, immortality, jewels

• Very adamant he stays with her in the woods/pastoral

ends up giving Oberon what he wanted, the Indian/changeling boy

once lifted from the love spell/flower, she falls back in love with Oberon

Relationship like couples who argue as their love language, to keep their attentions on each other

Finds the 'Love in Idleness' flower for Oberon

mistakenly places it on Lysander.

A fairy under Oberon, trickster archetype

"Lord, what fools these mortal be!" (3.2.117).

Irony bc of how the fairies also experience the same problems regarding love as the humans are.

Transformed into Demetrius and Lysander to throw them off and tire them out in the woods with a chase

Cures Lysander ONLY

Last lines of the play telling the audience if they didn't like it, think of it as a dream

Will play Pyramus in the play for the Duke and Duchess

Gets turned into a donkey (unaware of it)

Unaware of his own ridiculousness = comedic relief of his character

"What do you see? You see an ass-head of your own, do you?" (3.1.104).

He was more bashful around Titania hen he got turned into a donkey, very different from how he was when he was himself, but gets rrlly arrogant against once he gets comfortable.

He gets turned back after

Play director of Pyramus and Thisbe

he and the other rude mechanics run from bottom when he turns into a donkey out of fear

he misses bottom when he disappears and thinks the play will never go through

he is super super happy when bottom comes back

he gets stage freight, super funny lolololllll