A Midsummer Night’S Dream Essay Example For Students

A Midsummer Night’S Dream Essay A monologue from the play by William ShakespeareHELENA: How happy some oer other some can be!Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;He will not know what all but he do know.And as he errs, doting on Hermias eyes,So I, admiring of his qualities.Things base and vile, holding no quantity,Love can transpose to form and dignity.Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.Nor hath Loves mind of any judgment taste;Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste.And therefore is Love said to be a child,Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,So the boy Love is perjured everywhere.For ere Demetrius looked on Hermias eyne,He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,So he dissolved, and showrs of oaths did melt.I will go tell him of fair Hermias flight.Then to the wood will he to-morrow nightPursue her; and for this intel ligenceIf I have thanks, it is a dear expense.But herein mean I to enrich my pain,To have his sight thither and back again.