Midsummer Night's Dream response

Love in Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” is represented in so many different ways. The two characters who most intrigue me with their representations of love are Lysander and Helena. I think that these characters point out a few, sometimes true, social stereotypes. These are points that are necessary to the story, but perhaps Shakespeare was trying to fit in his observations in society.
Lysander is a fickle character. It is portrayed as no fault of his own that his love for Hermia wanders, but I think there is a bigger statement to be made. Whomever Lysander loves at the time, he loves over the top and ridiculously. He appears to want to go to the ends of the Earth for the woman. I’ve been in a relationship with a guy like this, and it gets very old very quickly. No one wants to be told over and over all these things, but the women in this play don’t seem to mind. I know that this is necessary to move the plot along, but it just seems over t...