A Midsummer Night's Dream Character Chart (Anthony Mora) by Anthony Mora

Egeus

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the father of Hernia

a controlling dad who Is angry about his daughter refusing to wed Demetrius

quote - "and she is mine and all my right of her I do estate unto Demetrius (1.1.102-102) showing the the power over hernia as her father

Hermia

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hernia the daughter of egues

one sided love with Demetrius who is desperate and desires her love which plans to tell Demetrius about lysander and hermias plan to get married away from the city at lysanders aunts house

quote " i would my father look'd but with my eyes" ( showing her strength veruses a powerful male

Lysander

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loves hernia and planned to run off and get married due to the fact that egues her father wanted her to wed demetrius and had the flower placed on him therfore him falling for Helena were Helena and hernia start conflict

Quote the course of true love never did run smooth(1.1.134) possibly foreshadowing future events

Demetrius

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once was in love with Helena but fell for hermia and planned to marry her but puck used the love potion for him to fall back in love with Helena and Demetrius was gonna fight lysander for helenas love

quotes - ¨my heart is to her but as guest-wise and to helena it is returned home there to remain "(3.2.172-174) stating how hermia was a distraction delaying his love for helena

Helena

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wishes to wed demetrius and is being denied by demetriuses rejection and she goes to a new low falling for him though the love is unrequited

Theseus

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defeated Hippolyta in battle for her hand in marriage and agrees with egues about hermias love life- eventually treated hippolyta as a person rather than a prize he one

quote "what you say hermia be advised fair maid to you "

your father should be as a god (1.1.48-49) presenting gender power struggles

Hippolyta

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she is the leader of the amazons (warrior race of women)

and she is defeated by thesues and forced to wed him and they treat each other with respect

quote

"and all their minds transfigured so together more witnesseth than fancy images and grows to something of great constancy but howsoever strange and admirable (4.1.24-27)- AMSND

Oberon

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the king of the faires who is wedded to titania who tells the hobgoblin puck to place and retrieve a flower which creates a love potion to put on titania and he does causing her to fall in love with nick bottom as a donkey but he decided to revert the spell and him and his wife made amends

Titania

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married to oberon and had prior relations with thesues raising an indian boy and was placed under a love spell which she fell in love with nick bottom as a donkey -she was cured then made amends with oberon

quote-tbese are forgeries of jealousy (2.1.82) showing there toxic relations

Puck (Robin Goodfellow)

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puck is a hobgoblin who finds fun in his mischief and his biggest mistake was mixing up lyander and Demetrius and turned bottom into a donkey and Oberon found his mistake and fixed everything-also puck finishes the play by apologizing if the play wasn't good enough and said to think of it as a dream

quote¨ lord what fools these mortals be (3.2.115)

Nick Bottom

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got role of pyramus and wants to play the role of a lion and turned into a donkey and didn't realize and was cured and puck used magic to make it seem like dream and then they preformed pyramus and thisbus

" and yet to say the truth reason and love keep little company together now-a-days" (3.1.128-129)- explaining the fickle of nature and love

Peter Quince

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an idiot who directs the play for theuses and hippolytas wedding and plans to put on pyramus and thisbus but was devastated when bottom ran off as a donkey but he was happy when he came back normally

Key

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Blue = City Plot
Red= Lovers Plot
Green = Fairy Plot
Purple = Worker's Plot