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Foolish Lovers


            
            
            
            
             Puck a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream says, "Lord what fools these mortals be" (3.2.115). This is in reference to the four young lovers of the play. Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena all act foolishly in their quest for eternal love. The risks they take and the eventual adventure they experience in the forest is the direct result of these young lovers running away with their hearts, instead of their minds.
             Hemia's foolish act is to agree to run away with Lysander at the risk of death. "Lysander and myself will fly this place." (1.1.202). She is going against the direct wishes of her father, Egeus. He feels that as her father he has the right to choice who Hermia should marry. "As she is mine, I may dispose of her; which shall be either to this gentleman, Or to her death, according to our law" (1.1.42-44). Later in the forest Hermia is shocked to learn that Lysander has changed his mind and now loves Helena. She even scorns her sister, "O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love! What have you come by night and stolen my love's heart from him?" (3.2.282-284). She has been the object of not one but two men's hearts and now the shoe is on the other foot. Hermia is a little jealous, "but that my nails can reach unto thine eyes" (3.2.298). All that has happened in a short while confuses her. She may have wished to go back in time a day and agree to marry Demetrius.
             Lysander, Hermia's true love, is the one who instigates Hermia's running away. She runs the risk of dieing if they are caught. Both Demetrius and Lysander is a good match for Hermia. Lysander tries to fight his cause before Theseus and Egeus, "I am my lord, as well derived as he, As well possessed; my love is more than his" (1.1.99-100). The problem is that Egeus wants his daughter Hermia to marry Demetrius. Even Theseus is in agreement with this match. .
             "To you your father should be as god;.


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