... characters presented in their respective plays.Although Shakespeare permits some of the female characters to exist fully outside of conventional norms, others are put back into their place. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the reader recognizes right away that Hermia is not ordinary woman. Her father, Egeus, has dragged Hermia off to Theseus's court in a desperate attempt to compel his ... this early point in the play, Hermia is an admirable and even heroic female figure, especially for the feminist reader, for both in this and other examples from A Midsummer Night's Dream she has succeeded...

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