Role Of Hermia In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hermia as a Feminist Women had always been discriminated against throughout the centuries. They were often treated like inanimate objects, toyed by fate and a society that was dominated by men. The women of the Elizabethan Era were of course, no exception.
In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Shakespeare created a character that had the backbone to defy this unfair system. She was Hermia, a feminist who risked stakes higher than her life to protect her right to love and live by her own will.
The sexist values of that time were plainly displayed in the very first scene of the play through the words of two men that exercised the most authority over Hermia—Egeus, her father, and Theseus, her king.
Egeus declared, as he was complaining to Theseus