A Midsummer Night's Dream Book Report

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream is about 2 lovers Hermia and Lysander that run away into the woods. They run away because Hermia’s dad wants her to marry Demetrius who follows them into the woods, but Hermia doesn’t want to marry Demetrius. Helena, Hermia’s friend loves demetrius into the woods. Fairies see the arguments and stuff and try to fix it but make it worse by making the wrong people fall in love. They end up fixing it and get who wants to love each other, to love each other. I think that Hermia is the protagonist in the book and that in the movie they try to make bottom the protagonist. Hermia is the protagonist of the book because she’s the reason that all the events happen in the first place.

I think that in the book the protagonist is Hermia. I think she is the protagonist because she is the main reason they go into the woods in the first place. The whole love triangle is mostly centered around Hermia. Even Helena said “Demetrius thinks not so; He will not know what all but he do know and as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes”. Helena is pretty much saying that Hermia gets all of the guys. Hermia is the main reason all of the fighting happens between Lysander and Demetrius and also with Hermia and Helena. Also because she was the one with the idea to go into the woods, if it wasn’t for her then Oberon would’ve never seen
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I believe that Shakespeare wanted the protagonist to be Oberon because of how much influence he has with everything that happens between the couples and how he tells Puck what to do with them. I think that the Director of the movie saw Bottom as the protagonist because of how many scenes he gives Bottom as the main focus of the scene. I believe that Hermia is the protagonist because of all the events she causes in the

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