A Midsummer Nights Dream
Characters
Helena
One of the main characters, part of the "love square".
Loves Demetrius, but he doesn't love her.
Friends with Hermia, the woman who Demetrius loves.
Neither Demetrius or Lysander love her until Puck drops the flower juice in their eyes to make them fall for Helena.
Hermia
One of the main characters, part of the "love square".
Loves Lysander, Lysander & Demetrius both love her.
Friends with Helena.
Father (Egeus) will only allow her to marry Demetrius.
Demetrius
One of the main characters, part of the "love square".
Loves Hermia, does not love Helena.
Friends with Lysander.
One of the "victims" of the flower juice.
Lysander
One of the main characters, part of the "love square".
Loves Hermia.
Friends with Demetrius.
One of the "victims" of the flower juice.
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Oberon
Married to Titania.
Found the flower juice to drop in Titania's eyes.
Puck is his friend, but also somewhat of a servant for Oberon.
Oberon was the root cause of the flower juice issue currently happening.
King of the fairies.
Titania
Married to Oberon.
Kind enough to take the Indian boy under her wing.
One of the "victims" of the flower juice from Oberon.
Was in love with Oberon, but now she is in love with the man with the donkey head, because of the flower juice.
Nick Bottom
Head was turned into a donkey head by Puck (Robin Goodfellow).
He is a weaver.
Interacts with Titania a lot as she is in love with him.
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Theseus
Starts off the play.
Getting married to Hippolyta.
Duke of Athens, Greece.
Hippolyta
Starts off the play.
Getting married to Theseus.
Robin Goodfellow
Commonly known as Puck.
Oberon's jester, mischevious fairy.
Causes chaos by transforming Bottom's head into a donkey's and applying the flower juice to Lysander instead of Demetrius.
Egeus
Hermia's father.
Only wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, if she doesn't, Egeus is willing to kill her.
Complains about this issue to Theseus.
Conflicts
Hermia and Egeus
Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius instead of Lysander, however Hermia does not want to do so.
Helena and Hermia
I believe that there will be some conflict between the two females since both Demetrius and Lysander went from loving Hermia to loving Helena. I think Hermia will start to get jealous of Helena.
Settings
Forest
Location of chaos and anarchy.
The forest was where the victims (Demetrius, Lysander, and Titania were given the flower juice.
City of Athens, Greece
Calm and civilized location.
Where the wedding will take place, as well as where most of the characters live.
Themes
Love's Difficulty
Story shows that love isn't a specific smooth path, and that it will always have it's twists and turns as the "love story" between people moves on.
An example is that the story is a love square, which doesn't make it easy for anyone to have a smooth relationship with another.
Magic
Since the fairies make up and are included in a lot of the story, magic is a constant theme in the play. The magic creates a very surreal world.