Throughout Shakespeare play he had a few plays that revolved around a love story. Some were tragic and ended with someone dying, like Romeo and Juliet and some of his love story’s just had hardships in the relationships. Like the lovers in a midsummers night dream. The lovers were Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrious. They all had to overcome many hardships throughout the story, like Hermia’s dad, the spell they were put under, Demetrious not loving Helena and loving Hermia.
To begin Hermia and Lysander were in love from the very beginning. They were planning on getting married but Hermia’s father did not want her to be with him, he wanted her to be with Demetrious. “Which is due to me, too stubborn harshness: and my gracious duke,
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In the beginning they already had problems. Helena was in love with Demetrious but he did not like her at all. He was in love with Hermia. Helena would throw herself at him she was willing to do anything, follow him and basically act like a dog. “Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, Neglect me, lose me;” (line Shakespeare) in this line Helena is saying that she will love him and that he could use her for whatever he wanted he could be abusive or anything and she will still love him. She then tells him that Hermia and Lysander left to elope in the forest and Demetrious decides to go find them because he is in love with Hermia. When he leaves then Helena follows. In the forest when they went to sleep. Puck also put the spell into Demetrious. When he awoke the next morning he saw Helena and fell in love with her.
Once both Demetrious and Lysander fall in love with Helena they started to treat Hermia badly. They were saying that they don’t want her anymore and they wanted to end up with Helena. This causes Hermia and Helena to get into a fight calling each other’s names like short. “O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school;
And though she be but little, she is fierce.” ‘Little’ again! Nothing but 'low' and 'little'!
Why will you suffer her to flout me thus? Let me come to her.” Once they both fall into the mud Helena