“Women had very few rights; they often were not allowed to leave the house and, inside their houses, they were relegated to rooms in the back of the house near the slave quarters.” This small snippet explains how women were really only used for household chores during the Athenian time. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, women don’t have choices to make or rights to have in their own life. The women in this play are held back by the men in their life in different situations such as being unable to choose their own spouse, men are too controlling, and women are so cornered that they just need to escape the current situation to make it better. Hermia was given an option by her father to either marry the man her father picked