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Characters: When you
first pick up this play, you'll be confused by all the character names. I guess this is
the main reason why I established this portion of my web, at least you have a character
intro which you can refer to during the play.
Lysander (left) and Hermia (right)
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 | Lysander is in love with Hermia, unfortunately, he doesn't have the love of Hermia's
father Egeus, who was highly against their marriage. |
| It was a happy ending since they(Hermia and Lysander) finally got to
be together at the end. |
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| Hermia is an upper class lady and the
daughter of Egeus. She has the love of both Lysander
and Demetrius, but Lysander is the only one she loves. |
| Hermia's father Egeus wants her to marry Demetrius
instead of Lysander. He was extremely mad to hear her
daughter's refusal. |
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| Demetrius loved Hermia
but loved Helena not. He and Lysander are rivals in this
complicated love triangle. |
| He doted on Helena before meeting Hermia, and now he had changed his
mind, he could not escape Helena's pursue. |
| The fairies from the fairyland dipped a potion into Demetrius' eyes, making him
fall in love with Helena. The two happy pair, along with Lysander
and Hermia got married at the Duke's Palace. |
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| Just as I said above, before meeting Hermia,
Demetrius doted on Helena.
Therefore, Helena fell madly in love with him. However, Demetrius
had changed his mind about Helena, leaving her alone. |
| Helena didn't give up that easily, she followed Demetrius everywhere
until Demetrius finally fell in love with her as a result of the love potion. |
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| Hippolyta, the Queen of Amazons, was
captured during a war by the Duke of Athens, Theseus. The Duke
decided to marry her "in a different Key". |
| Theseus: Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace;
four happy days bring in another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow this old moon wanes!
Hippolyta: Four days will quickly steep themselves in night: four nights will
quickly dream away the time; and then the moonm like to a silver bow new-bent in heaven,
shall behold the night of our solemnities. |
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| Theseus is the Duke of Athens. The play
begins with him talking to the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta
about their upcoming marriage. |
| In the begging, Theseus was against the love affair between Lysander
and Hermia; but at the end, these two lovers finally got
married with his consent. |
| Speech with Hippolyta in Act i, Scene i. |
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