Act III
As Hermia, you have just lost your boy friend to your best friend who you think has “stol’n my love’s heart from him. . ..” This would mean losing your best friend too. Which is the worse losing your boyfriend/girlfriend or your best friend and why? Is this a problem today? And how does the fact that Shakespeare uses situations that still happen today, help us to better understand the play? Use not only your own feelings but validations from the play to prove your point. Answer in about 11 sentences.
posted by dmteacher @ 9:22 AM
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Realistically, I think it would be worse to lose a friend. Of course thats just my opinion. I have lost a friend before. It greatly upset me to learn that some of my friends did not come to Dean Morgan, but I guess this isn't quite so severe as the book.... It is interesting that Shakespeare's story is so relevent, even today. I guess it is just that never loses importance. Hermia doesn't want to fight with her Helena anymore than she wants Lysander to leave her. She doesn't want to lose her friend, even though Helena's brainlessness doesn't really help. But I'm sure that we all have arguments over ideas. Helena clearly thinks this is all a joke, while Hermia is just as confused.
I think it would be worse to loose your best friend. I think this because you are closer to your friends than you are to your boy or girl friends so when you loose a friend you lose more. Plus you can only call some people REAL friends. Yes it is a problem to day. People lose friends over boy/girl friends today. In the book this happenes with Helena and Hermia. It is a problem with young and older people. People i think understand more stuff if they can relate to it in some way or another. That is how it can help people understand.
I think it would be worse by losing your best friend. I think this because your best friend is closer to you than any boyfriend or girlfriend would be. Also, you are going to have only one best friend and many boyfriends or girlfriends so it would be stupid to lose you best friend over just one girlfriend or boyfriend. And yes this is a problem today. Because I am sure people have lost their best friend over their boyfriend or girlfriend and regretted it later. The fact that he uses situations that happen today helps us understand the play better because we have an idea of what is going on. Although he uses a more sophisticated way of saying it we get the whole point. And I do think it is amazing that things that happened 500 years ago still happen today.
I think it would be worse to loose a friend. I think this because friends are always there and friends last longer. Friends don't have the problems that relationships do so it is better there. Friends are there for you in the hard parts of relationships, too That is why i don't want to loose a friend. If your dating it is to be expected that it will end and it is easier to get a new girlfriend. Yes this is a problem today because there are still friends and still dating. These problems continue with these things. The fact that we can see these things today helps in the play because we can relate. If it didn't happen today then we would be more confused by what is happening in the book. If it didn't happen we would probably be at laughing at them for this problem.
I think it would be worse to loose your best friend because your best friend is more important to you then some boyfriend or girlfriend or at least they should be. You will probably have more boyfriends and girlfriends in your lifetime then you will best friends. I think this is a problem today. Most people dont realize the true meaning of friendship. Some people dont think that friendship is more important then boyfriend and girlfriend relationships. I feel bad for Hermia because she doesnt know why Lysander all of a sudden hates her and loves Helena. It would feel terrible to have your best friend and the guy you love fall in love and you loose both of them at the same time. if i ever lost my best friend to a guy i would know that they werent really my real best friend. i like how Shakespeare uses situations that still happen today because a lot of us can relate to them and enjoy reading the story more.
I think it would be worse to lose your best friend. Your best friend should be everything to you. I have lost a best friend before. It was awful on weekends when we used hang out, I was lonely.She found a new best friend...and I did too. And I think that this situation goes on a lot in other people's lives today as it did back then. So, Shakespear uses some pretty...old language in in this play. So the fact that we know how it feels to lose a friend, helps us feel maybe what the characters are feeling too. And what really sucks is losing your best friend...over a BOY!! That happens a lot today, too. As sad as it is to believe, I think it will continue in the future. Helena is very confused to hear that both boys are "in love" with her...but after the second sprinkle of juice on Lysander, she believed what had just happened and now is POed at Hermia.
I personally think, especially at a young age, it would be worse to lose a friend. Friendship beats relationship any day in my opinion. However, the situation might be different for Hermia. Now that she is no longer able to love Lysander, that will give the duke every reason to force her to marry Demetrius. But back to real life, a best friend is something that can't be replaced. You will always be able to find members of the opposite sex to date. However, it might not be so easy to find someone who you can call your best friend. A best friend shouldn't be something that just comes and goes like a girlfriend could. You will quickly run out of people to become best friends if you don't realize the value of a good friend. That is why it would be much worse to lose a good friend then a girlfriend.
I think losing your best friend would be worse. Your best friend will always be with you but a girlfriend may not. This is a very big problem now a days as well as in the past. It helps us understand the play by basically moderniziing the entire situation. For example not only this situation but others like when Demetruis and Helena are together and he breaks up with her for Hermia.
Losing a best friend is worse than losing a girlfriend. If you lose girlfriend. Best friends are usually always around. Girlfriends can come and go. Even if people want to get married and get engaged they still don't get married when they change their minds. Best friends will usually always be there. In college you usually have roommates and they usually turn into your friends. When you want advice or someone to talk to you don't usually go to your girlfriend and ask them. You usually go to your friends. This helps us understand Shakespeare's play better because we can compare relate to what is happening in the play. In the play my point is also proven when Hermia gets really angry at Helena. She does not get as mad at Lysander though. Best friends are a lot harder to lose than a girlfriend.
In my opinion losing your best friend would be a lot worse than losing your girlfriend. A friend can stay with you all your life but a girlfriend may only stay with you for a day or so. A friendship is much more valuable than any relationship can ever be. It might come close but a friendship will still be more valuable in my opinion. This is still a big problem today. I think Shakespeare uses these particular situations so that people can relate better to what is going on in the play. Almost all things he says are still true today and are everyday problems we face.
I think it would be worse to loose your best friend. I think that your friends will be there longer then your girlfriend or boyfriend. Yes i think this is a problem today and will continue to happen in the future. It will never go away. It probably even happened before Shakespeare's time. It is interesting that Shakespeare used things that happens today. I think that he was trying to relate to the audience. This also helps us understand the book better. I am sure Shakespeare wasn't thinking about us in the future when he was writing this but it just shows how good of a writer Shakespeare was. Shakespeare was a excellent writer.
I think that I would rather keep my best friend than my boyfriend because they have stuck with me until the end. Best friends are more important than boyfriends/girlfriends. Your best friend will stick with you no matter what and for a boyfriend/girlfriend that is most likely not the case. Shakespeare was very modern in figuring out the emotions of all people and it can help everyone who reads his works understand them better. It is almost as if Shakespeare unlocked the secret to the human mind. You can read this play in 1,000 years from now and still understand what is going through the peoples minds. It happens today, it happened in the 1600 and it will happen in the future. I can see both Hermia's and Helena's side of the argument. They are both confused and angry at everthing, but for different reasons. Hermia wants to be loved and Helena is thinking that they are all playing a joke on her (I would too if I were in her position).
I think it really depends on the trueness of both of the relationships. It would hurt either way to loose your boyfriend/girlfriend and your best friend, but there is a problem when your best friend is your boyfriend or girlfriend, which is the way it should be. Yes, boyfriends and girlfriends may come and go, but best friends do too. But, at this age, I think it would be more painful to loose a best friend more than a girlfriend or boyfriend. Yes this still happens today, and really, it just happened to me recently, but what I came to realize is that some people just really don't matter. If they are going to get upset, or feel like you have stolen your boyfriend, when it really isn't your fault, then they really aren't your best friend, because they didn't trust you not to in the first place.
I think it would be harder to lose your best friend because you won't ever be able to become friends that person again. Unless the other person grew up and realized it was a stupid mistake and they were ready to be friends again. Unless the other person said sorry and realized what they had done. When Helena and Hermia had gotten in to this big huge fight I was surprised that I could relate. I have gone through the big fight over a guy but it wasn't worth it. Hermia might have only thought it was worth it because she loved him she wanted to marry him but if your fighting over a guy who you could replace because your in junior high there is no reason you should get in a fight over him. You can always find a new boyfriend or girlfriend. The fact that Shakespeare uses of situations still happen today does help us understand it better. You can think of what people did back then as what happened today. Many people wouldn't have thought that what happened in these days would have happened back then.
It is worse to lose you your best friend over your boyfriend. Because generally, your friend is always going to be there for you, and with your boyfriend, you never know if you are going to last forever. This is a problem today because sometimes people find themselves in a situation similar to this one. It wouldn't be good if you were in this situation because then you lose your best friend, and you no longer have someone you can talk to. However, if you lose your boyfriend you can always find another one, and it is harder to find a true friend like the one you just lost. Shakespeare uses situations that still happen today. Just because this was written a long time ago, doesn't mean they don't have the same experiences as we do. It helps us understand the play because it shows us what can happen. Everything can't always turn out like we want it too. So Shakespeare is teaching us a lesson during the play. Even though situations today isn't the exact same today, it still goes along the same lines.
Well losing your boyfriend/girlfriend is worse than losing your best friend. Losing your best friend doesn't mean that you can't find another best friend. A boyfriend or girlfriend is a different story. When you lose a boyfriend/girlfriend you might not find another person like that. This is a problem that still goes on today. People still think that losing your best friend is a tragedy. The fact that Shakespeare uses situations that still happens today, helps us understand the play in many ways. In this time people still have boyfriends and girlfriends and they still break up. In Shakespeare Hermia loses Lysander to Helena, then Lysander treats Hermia worse than how he treated Demetrius. We understand how that feels, so we get how the play works.
I think that losing your best friend would be worst because they are always there for you. A boyfriend could leave you, where a best friend lasts a lifetime. This is a problem today because boyfriends will cheat on you. Best friends never hurt you or cheat you. Boyfriends will use you and your best friend won't. In the play I think he is explaining that losing your boyfriend is better than losing your best friend. At the beginning of the play, Hermia's dad knew that Lysander would be the one to hurt Hermia but she didn't listen. I can't believe that happened a long time ago.
I must admit, I have no idea how Hermia would feel at this point, because I've never had a girlfriend. I think it would be much worse to lose a friend, because people break up with boyfriends/girlfriends all the time. with friends you usually know them for a really long time, so it would hurt a lot more. I remember when I moved from Idaho, I was very depressed because I had to leave all my friends behind. People have these kind of problems all the time today, it's kind of sad though, they think they know each other so well, but one little fight could ruin it all. I think it's kind of strange that people had the same problems then as now, I mean, this way after that. But that does help us understand the play a lot better, because we've gone through the same thing. I think almost every single person on the planet has gone through something like that.
I honestly think it would be worse to loose a friend because at our age it is ESSENTIAL to have friends. Boyfriends/girlfriends will come and go. Friends are the ones that are with you through it and are your friend no matter what. They HELP you through things like break ups. You need them.
This is a HUGE problem today. Lots of gossip and rumors can really hurt people both emotionally, and physically. Things come out of people's mouths and they cant take it back. That's not the worst though. Then it spreads. Then you have people coming up to you constantly asking you harassing questions. "Oh, well people have been saying this and that about you and I was wondering if it was true."
There are things from the play that we can connect to make us like the play more. Shakespeare really did a good job with all his plays of putting real life situations and experiences in them.
I guess it was true-- things that commonly happen today with breakups and gossip happened back in that time and it continues on as it gets to our modern time.
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