Examples Of Love In A Midsummer Night's Dream

In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia and Lysander show the thematic idea of unbreakable love. For example, Theseus tells Hermia, “Either to die the death or to abjure / Forever the society of men” (1.1.65-66). This quote tells us that Theseus is not allowing Hermia to be with Lysander, but she can either die or become a nun. Another example to show how Hermia and Lysander will do anything to be with each other is how Lysander tells Hermia the plan, “ If thou lovest me then, / Steal forth thy father’s house tomorrow night. / And in the wood, a league without the town” (1.1.163-165). This quote shows that Hermia makes a hard decision to run away with Lysander outside of Athens even if her father Egeus doesn’t agree she loves