Theseus And Hippolyta In A Midsummer Night's Dream

In a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Theseus and Hippolyta are soon to be married. Theseus, being the Duke, encounters a father who explains his predicament and asks Theseus to pass judgement. This man, Egeus, has a beautiful daughter named Hermia. He has told her she will marry Demetrius, but she has fallen in love with Lysander, a simple man of Athens. The Duke tells her that she has a month to marry the man of her father’s choosing, die, or become a nun. She wishes to do neither of these things and runs to the forest to marry Lysander. Meanwhile Oberon, king of the fairy folk, has ordered his servant Puck to retrieve a magical flower to bestow upon his wife Titania. This flower holds the power to cause whomever it is administered to, to fall in

He was previously an actor (though I don’t know that one would call him that), but was a victim of one of Puck’s pranks. She is instantly smitten and Oberon is furious. He attempts to fix the problem himself by using the previously mentioned flower on Demetrius as originally planned. However, this creates a problem as now there are two men pining for Helena and Hermia is left alone. Helena believes that this is a well thought out joke between the three of them, and gets upset with Hermia. Hermia, however, is not the cause and is very upset at Helen who has “stolen” her own lover and now her betrothed, not that she cared much for him anyhow. Lysander and Demetrius plan a duel for Helena’s heart but once again fall victim to Puck. This time around, Puck rights his wrong doing by fixing Lysander. While he still has access to the flower, Oberon allows the drops of it to, once again, find his wife’s eyes. Puck removes Bottom, the “actor’s”, donkey head and sends him on his way. The Duke decides that if all are happy, Hermia may marry Lysander as she wishes. All is well and Bottom and his troupe perform a miserable play for the three pairs of