The Butterfly Effect In A Midsummer Night's Dream

The butterfly effect is a theory in which a single action can cause reaction elsewhere that can either benefit or destroy something. In A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander and Hermia's decision to run away from athens to escape Theseus from making hermia marry Demetrius who Hermia does not love. This is a cause that leads to many outcomes that go terribly wrong. One decision can lead to many things and in this case the outcomes directly affect the two athenian couples and causes them to fall in love with different people who which they truly do not love. Although this all started because of Hermia and Lysander.
Lysander and Hermia decide to run away to escape Theseus from arranging Hermia to marry Demetrius. The problem here is that Hermia