A Midsummer's Night Dream By William Shakespeare

Literary masterpieces are all around us in the world. The most famous of these are the ones that have stood the test of time even after hundreds of years. A Midsummer’s Night Dream is a story that most have heard in one way or another, whether in a remediation or by seeing the play themselves. The love of the characters in this play, while seemingly innocent enough, is the result of completely unnatural tampering. The fairies broke a moral boundary by faking the love of the four humans. The story begins with both suitors, Lysander and Demetrius, loving only one woman, Hermia. Helena, another woman, is enamored with Demetrius, and cannot help but follow him everywhere he goes. When the love of Hermia and Lysander leads them into a magic

Egeus had given up his daughter to Demetrius for wedding, but being rebellious, she went against her father’s wishes. The only chance she had for redeeming their relationship was to wed Demetrius and to give up her foolish dream of marrying Lysander. Due to the foolhardiness of Robin, this relationship is given no chance of ever being redeemed, and Hermia is cursed to never be on the good side of her father again. Robin’s tampering, however, was not the only unnatural part of the love quadrilateral happening in this story. The laws of the Athenians clearly state that a woman must marry the man her father chooses for her. Theseus originally holds true to this law but soon chooses to ignore it. While it is not the greatest situation for Hermia to be in, being wed off to a suitor of her father’s choosing, it is still the law, and the law must be followed by all. Theseus, in pardoning Hermia, not only chooses to ignore a clearly written law but actively goes against it. It seems that the only person in the right here is Egeus, who is portrayed as an evil father trying to force his daughter into marriage when in actuality he is a man doing what every father of a daughter must do, choose her