“What, can you do me greater harm than hate?” says Hermia, protecting herself in the wake of being advised her by her lover that he loathes her. This system of hyperbaton demonstrates the setting of olden eras and the style of writing used, rather than the sentence being composed as the conventionary, 'could you hurt me more than hate?'. However, this figure of speech, is a reality. The human brain regards social dismissal as physical pain, so even without Lysander physically touching Hermia, he is still physically harming her by rejecting her affection and love for
