How Is Hermia Mature In A Midsummer's Night Dream

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What happens when a young lady’s course for true love doesn’t go as planned? In the play, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, by Shakespeare, Hermia, a young woman living in Athens, is first told by her father, Egeus, that she must marry a man she doesn’t love. Another thing that makes is so her course of true love doesn’t run so smooth is that her lover, Lysander, falls in love with her best friend while under a potion’s effect. These obstacles all change her relationships with people she knows, and impacted her greatly. Many of the obstacles that Hermia runs into on her course of true love, impact her by making her feel anywhere from angry, to feeling betrayed. The first obstacle Hermia faces, is when she is told from her father that she has three