Question 7 options: Titania.

Oberon sees Demetrius being horrible to Helena. He tells Puck to put some of the potion in Demetrius’ eyes so that he will love Helena. Puck finds a young couple asleep, but it is the wrong couple. He puts the potion in Lysander’s eyes.

The prime instance of this imbalance is the asymmetrical love among the four young Athenians: Hermia loves Lysander, Lysander loves Hermia, Helena loves Demetrius, and Demetrius loves Hermia instead of Helena—a simple numeric imbalance in which two men love the same woman, leaving one woman with too many suitors and …

Helena demeans herself in chasing after Demetrius even when he scorns her, but this demonstrates her constant love for him. Demetrius’s abandonment of her caused Helena to lack self-confidence and self-respect, going so far as to tell Demetrius that she’d love and follow him even if he treated her like his dog.

Helena enters with Lysander still pledging his undying love to her. Still believing that he is mocking her, Helena remains angry and hurt. The noise of their bickering wakes Demetrius, who sees Helena and immediately falls in love with her. Demetrius joins Lysander in declaring this love.

Helena

After being found sleeping in the woods by the duke and duchess, Demetrius confesses his love for Helena while denouncing his earlier infatuation with Hermia. Gaining approval from Theseus, the four lovers take their first step towards their happy ending.

In Act 3, sc. 2, Hermia discovers that Lysander professes to love Helena. He says he no longer loves, and even dispises, Hermia. She is dumbfounded.

Oberon is in a fight with his wife Titania over who gets to keep a certain servant. Oberon tells Puck to use the juice of the flower called love-in-idleness on Titania’s eyes to make her fall in love with someone so she gets distracted from the fight.

2.1: Puck accidentally sprinkles the love potion in Lysander’s eyes instead of Demetrius’s, which causes Lysander to fall out of love with Hermia and in love with Helena. Whoops. Now Demetrius and Lysander both want Helena, and Hermia is left unloved.

Why won’t Titania give up the changeling boy to Oberon? She won’t give him up, because he was on of her followers children and his mother passed away giving birth. So, Titania felt obliged to to care of the boy. Oberon sends Puck to find a flower filled with Cupid’s Love/Power.

Puck changes Bottom into a man with the head of a donkey through magic. He also uses the same magic flower intended for the human lovers on Titania, so that she falls in love with Bottom as soon as she sees him. It’s appropriate because Bottom is many things, but among others, he’s a fool: he is an ass.

The name Thisbe is a girl’s name of Greek origin. Thisbe, the name of a beautiful but tragic lover in mythology, is lively and cute — in a slightly thistly, prickly way.

Lysander

One obvious difference between Midsummer and the story of Pyramus and Thisbe is that the former is a comedy and the latter is a tragedy. Nevertheless, Shakespeare manages to play comedy and tragedy against each other in such a way that draws the two stories into a mirrored relationship.

The moral of this story is that true love beats everything else. Pyramus and Thisbe really loved each other and they wanted to stay together forever. An example of this is when their parents didn’t want them to be in love, they still talked to each other.

Why couldn’t Pyramus and Thisbe marry? Their parents forbade them.

The wall symbolizes the obstacle that their parents will not let them be together, even though the small opening represents their ability to overcome that obstacle.

The handsome Pyramus and the lovely Thisbe live in the ancient city of Babylon, where their families have been neighbors all their lives. As Pyramus and Thisbe grow up, they fall totally in love. Unfortunately, the young lovers’ families hate each other and forbid the two to get married.

The climax occurs when Pyramus finds Thisbe’s bloody veil and, believing her dead, kills himself in despair, causing Thisbe to kill herself after she finds his body.

What does the mulberry tree symbolize in this story? The mulberry tree symbolizes the true love of Pyramus and Thisbe. In what does this symbol of the mulberry tree reinforce the story’s theme? The symbol represents the sacrifice the lovers make for each other.

Puck

Overview. Hermia is caught in a romantic entanglement where she loves one man, Lysander, but is being courted by another, Demetrius, whose feelings she does not return. Though she loves Lysander, Hermia’s father, Egeus, wants her to marry Demetrius and has appealed to Theseus, the Duke of Athens, for support.