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A Midsummer Night's Dream: The perceived conditionality of love
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A Midsummer Night's Dream. Sunday, July 11, 2010. The perceived conditionality of love. Continuing on the previous post about Helena's pathetic state, something struck me today - that the two women in Midsummer Night's Dream seem to perceive love as being conditional on how they look. Now, in modern times we scoff at the idea that beauty or looks play a part in love - how shallow! Emotional damage aside, physical disfigurement or even mere looks are the driving factor in a lot of relationships - take for...
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Monday, August 17, 2009. Minus one, Plus one. And there he goes again. The feeling of rejection hit me like a knife through my heart, stabbed repeatedly. I'm tired of this chase, falling deeper each second. I've went through tough times and times when depression comes looming like persistent dark clouds on a December day. But why can't I ever get used to this feeling? Paralyzed, yes, that's the word I'm looking for. Am I not fair enough, Demetrius? What is it that Hermia has that I don't? People never re...
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Sunday, August 16, 2009. The man of my dreams, or my bestfriend? I choose the former. We've been friends for long, Hermia and I, yet I feel resentful she has the love of two perfectly fine gentleman. I couldn't care less for Lysander, but how dare she! How dare she bewitch Demetrius, which I have to say once was mine. And mocking, was she? When she called me fair! Ironically, even though I'm known as the fairest in Athens, Demetrius would only look at Hermia's fair! How fair is that?
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Friday, August 14, 2009. When we first set eyes on each other, it was love at first sight. Can't bear to leave traces of our precious memories behind. Labels: Prologue - Part 1. Liling. Helena, without her Demetrius. People never really lose hope. Damaged, through and through. Contact me @ 1800-never-going-to-happen-unless-demetrius-ooh-love-call-me-please. Parting is such sweet sorrow. Contributed by Aqilah, Rashidah, Liling, Joohwee, Jiamin of 3E5.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009. Crossing boundaries and sharp nails. Yikes. There's nothing left in me other than pure anger, and confusion. And others you should know by heart. Not only is Lysander persistently, annoyingly following me around claiming his true love for me (yeah, right), Demetrius is in the ring now too. This is mockery at it's finest! I don't find this the least bit amusing at all. Oh, so they have a Plan B now? Hermia, ah, Hermia. Was she a part of this too? Why, fair Hermia? Contact me @ 18...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009. How do things always seem to figure themselves out? Stanger events have not happened to me in this life. But thankfully I don't seem to be the only one who felt like I dreamt the whole thing up. The others felt confused as well, even to the extent of hallucinating that the duke and Hippolyta was with us at one point in time! Well, what I'm most pleased about is that Demetrius has changed his mind and claims he is in love with me! And how did it happen?
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Saturday, August 15, 2009. Then One fateful day, i heard the bad news. The news i knew would tear us apart, those words that would take my soul away, those words. Which told me that you would be leaving me. Once again. Hermia's father wanted MY love, to marry her, my bestfriend. Well even though everything's absolutely fine now, the hurt and trauma is still there. And forever it remains, just like a scar. This is,. The reminiscence of our once shallow and unworthy past. Helena, without her Demetrius.
