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Summer Night Dream The Relationship Term Paper

As a warrior, she grows into understanding love and marriage throughout the play, However, through the fact that she is Theseus's partner, as well as the fact that she has her own qualities, she also symbolizes order and stability. 3. In terms of Theseus's attitude towards marriage, Shakespeare follows this in the way he manifests himself with regards to third parties who are to get married in imposing the law of the nation of which he is king. In the first act of the play, Theseus appears as being undecided about the decision he needs to make. On one hand, there is a law that he needs to respect and, indeed, enforce. On the other hand, he talks with both Egeus and Demetrius in order to try to reach a different decision by negotiating a third solution (which is somewhat similar to the way he deals when problems appear in his relationship...

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Finally, he also offers Hermia to become a nun. He is for love and marriage and Shakespeare is probably very keen in showing this by the character's attitudes in what regards Hermia's potential marriage.
On the other hand, it is clear that Hippolyta has cold feet throughout most of the play and this is because the fact that being an Amazon, a tribe who only meets men in battle, affects her conception about marriage. Shakespeare follows the way Hippolyta's perception on marriage changes throughout the play and especially through the way that her relationship with Theseus evolves. At the end of the play, with their marriage taking place, we come to understand the evolution that Hippolyta has followed in terms of her perception on marriage.

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