In Greece, there was a law which made young women very unhappy. According to this law, a father was able to choose a man as a husband for his daughter and the daughter had to agree to marry this man, or die. One day, an old man, Egeus entered with his daughter, Hermia, and her beloved Lysander, and her suitor Demertius. Hermia was in love with Lysander, but her father wanted her to marry Demetrius. Lysander told that he was as good and as rich as Demetrius, but Egeus wouldn’t listen. Egeus told that if Hermia wouldn’t marry Demetrius, she would die: this was the law of Athens and his right as her father. The duke agreed that Hermia had to obey her father. Since Lysander was not satisfied with the duke’s decision, he came up with a plan. He and Hermia could escape from Athens and its unjust laws by running away to his widowed aunt's house. There he and Hermia could marry and live in peace. As they discussed their plans, Helena, who was in love with Demetrius, came. Hermia told Helena about their plan to leave Athens. Hoping to gain favor with Demetrius, Helena decided to tell him about the plan. The next night, Hermia and Lysander met in the wood outside Athens. They didn’t know that many ordinary people, who were fairies, lived in the wood too. The king and queen of the fairies were called Oberon and Titania. Oberon and Titania were not friends …show more content…
The story is written by mixing love and comedy. The story contains love because it’s central theme, and magic. The prime theme of a Shakespearean comedy is love. There are many types of love including forced love, and true love. The four young Athenians in this story assert that although "The course of true love never did run smooth," true love triumphs in the end, bringing happiness and harmony. A dream is not real, even though it seems so at the time we experienced it. Shakespeare consciously created the plays' dreamlike quality in a number of