In Midsummer Night’s Dream according to William Shakespeare’s character Lysander love can be and should be a choice that no one but yourself should be responsible for, also losing yourself while being in love, last but not least giving your heart to the person you love. Lysander is one of Shakespeare’s main characters for the story, that works hard to have the love that he deserves. He knows that his love is pure and nothing but real. And he will show that to Hermia.
Lysander is Hermia’s lover and they’re madly in love, however, Hermia’s father wants her to marry somebody else, someone who she has no affection for. Demetrius being the other guy who is in love with Hermia. In Shakespeare’s time fathers got to choose the …show more content…
“O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence! Love takes the meaning in love’s conference. I mean that my heart unto yours is knit, So that but one heart we can make of it;” (2.2.34-37) He would do anything for her and Lysander has told her and made sure that she understood that, he says that his heart will always belong to her and that’s all that matters to him. Just sweet Hermia and no one else. However, in the story, Shakespeare takes a gigantic move during the story that makes poor Hermia isn’t believing him. Lysander’s words of love and doubt since Lysander had been a victim of a mistake that some other character in the book made, which both characters paid for a mistake that was not meant for them to be even involved in the first place.
In every story there should always be a turning point that makes you wonder off and ask yourself about certain things, in this story, love was something that meant something to each and every character, loving someone can even do drastic things like give your heart to the one you love, also being able to feel many emotions like losing yourself but you know that there will always be someone you love right there to look after you and take care of