A Midsummernights Dream

Love, Lust and their Extremes


When a man or woman falls in love, they take on a subconscious responsibility; the vow that they will do and say anything to get the lover back. Today humans are capable of luring, seducing, stealing, stalking, and in the immeasurable love that many feel they may even commit the act of murder. In doing these actions, one devotes himself to the relationship, in the sense that he is proving that he is passionate and cares for his significant other. The feeling that a significant other, or a spouse would do anything to a certain extent can be spine tingling. In the beginning of the play Lysander possibly risks losing Hermia to the wishes of her father, Egeus.
“As she is mine, and I may dispose of her;
Which shall be either too marry this gentleman
Or to her death, according to our law.” (I.i. 41-43)

Hermia risks death from the malevolence of Egeus. She is devoted to Lysander in such a way that never seeing her father again and run...