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Jul 31, 2015 · Theseus threatens Hermia with either lifelong chastity or death if she continues to disobey her father. Lysander and Hermia make plans to flee Athens. They reveal their plan to Helena, Hermia’s friend, who is in love with Demetrius.
But a married woman lives happier in this world than a virgin, who achieves the blessing of chastity but grows, lives, and withers to death as a flower on the stem.
Later in the scene, the moon transforms once again, moving into her role as Diana, the chaste goddess of the hunt. Theseus vows that if Hermia does not marry Demetrius as her father wishes, she will live a barren life, "[c]hanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon" (73).
A summary of Act I: Scene i in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and what it means.
Jul 7, 2015 · The spear is a blatantly phallic object, and Acteon’s threat to the women—and especially to Diana—is the risk he poses to her sexual chastity. As punishment, as the antlers prefigure, she translates him, as Shakespeare would use the word in MSND, into a stag, which his own dogs eat.
Jul 31, 2015 · Theseus threatens Hermia with either lifelong chastity or death if she continues to disobey her father. Lysander and Hermia make plans to flee Athens. They reveal their plan to Helena, Hermia’s friend, who is in love with Demetrius.
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Jul 8, 2015 · Shakespeare juxtaposes loving desire and chaste austerity through the two deities Cupid and Diana. Cupid is “said to be a child” (I.1.238), “blind [ly]” (I.1.235) slinging fiery shafts at maidens to implant tenacious and sometimes self-destructive “fancies.”.
