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    Shakespeare has made it clear that love is very complicated. With all the drama and complications. At the beginning of the story Hermia and Lysander liked each other, Helena liked Demetrius, Demetrius liked Hermia, and Hermia and Helena were best friends. Complicated, right? Well, as the story continued, Lysander fell in love with Helena after Puck put juice from a flower into Lysander’s eyes. Then Puck put the juice into Demetrius’ eyes…

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    with Helena, who is madley in love with Demetruis. Demetruis slept with Helena. It also means that since Demetruis dropped Helena when he saw someone more beautiful come along then he may do the same to Hermia; another reason is that Helena is still in love with Demetruis so she may try to ruin the marriage by trying to lure…

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    obey her father 's wishes by marrying Demetrius, join a nunnery or die. She of course objects and sneaks off with Lysander the next day to go to a place beyond Athens to get married. She is described as being little, but with a fierce temperament. Helena is a close childhood friend of Hermia, it is found out that Demetrius courted her at first, then fell in love with Hermia who wants nothing to do with him. She’s more sensitive than Hermia thinking poorly of herself when Demetrius won’t love…

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    Egeus, threatens her livelihood if she decides not to marry Demetrius, who is Egeus’ personal choice for Hermia. Later on in the play, it is found that Hermia’s good friend Helena is in love with Demetrius. But because Demetrius does not love her back (but instead desires Hermia), Helena is treated very poorly. At the end Helena goes through a lengthy process to finally earn Demetrius’…

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    text Shakespeare reveals to the audience that Demetrius has had an affair with Helena. Lysander said, “ Demetrius, I’ll avouch it to his head, Made love to Nedar’s daughter, Helena…” (Shakespeare, 5). In this quote Lysander is trying to stop the marriage between Demetrius and Hermia, so he brings up the affair Demetrius had with Helena. Demetrius is in love with Hermia, but he still went out and had an affair with Helena. This explains why some people have a hard time dealing with temptation.…

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    committed transfer intent with respect to Jack pursuant to A.R.S. section 13-203(B)(1) and State v. Ramirez . The phone was thrown towards another person involve, identified as Helena. In result it ended up hitting Jack BRIEF ANSWER 

 Yes, Kaleigh did commit assault because her intention was to throw the phone to Helena and with respect to Jack, she was not intentionally throwing the phone at him. Since Jack ended up sitting in that location and turning his head it resulted in the phone…

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    Introduction There are various types of love portrayed in the writings of William Shakespeare in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are several forms of love depicted in the play, including parental love, forced love, romantic love, as well as jealousy to name a few. Early in the play, the character Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth” (1.1.134), this theme carries through the remaining scenes of the play as various sets of characters undergo a series of trials…

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    examining relationships between these women written and brought to life by Shakespeare, we can come to understand their emotional breadth over the course of the play. As first presented early on within “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” the relationship between Helena and Hermia is brought to the forefront. As part of the lovers, Shakespeare’s language may make them seem very flat at times. But their interactions prove…

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    film is about two men, Lysander and Demetrius, and two women, Helena and Hermia, and fairies, Titania and Oberon. The film starts with the Duke and his Fiancé about to get married. One of the Hermia’s father goes up to the Duke and the father wants Hermia to marry Demetrius who she does not want to marry. Hermia decides to run away with her lover Lysander and she tells her friend Helena, but Helena is in love with Demetrius and Helena tells Demetrius to get him alone and it works. The Fairy King…

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    Lysander. Lysander decided to walk towards the sound of footsteps. Just as he rounded a corner Helena, one of hermia’s close friends bumped into him her pendant fell to the ground. Helena gave out a sigh of frustration, Lysander thought she was rather petulant. She explained her problems to him, she complained that her love, Demetrius, simply only had eyes for Hermia. In attempts to console her, Lysander told Helena not to fret, for he and Hermia were planning on running away that…

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