"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare, the GREATEST poet of all time!!!
This story is about 4 main characters: Helena, Lysander, Demetrius & Hermia
It's Shakespeare's most delightful comedy. It's also a love story.
So here's the thing; Hermia's father, Egues, wants her to marry Demetrius because he is in love with Lysander. So Egues asked for the help of Theseus (Duke of Athens) to help persuade her daughter. So Theseus told Hermia to obey her father, or either die or accept a life as a nun. And so Hermia and Lysander planned to take off but first they told Helena. Helena is in love with Demetrius BUT Demetrius hates her and loves Hermia. The Athenian lovers, Hermia and Lysander, ran away but they got lost in the woods. They didn't know Demetrius was following them! Gosh! And Demetrius didn't know Helena was following him. DOUBLE GOSH!
There's this fairy, his name is Oberon (king of the fairies who lives in the woods) overheard Helena & Demetrius arguing and sent his mischievous servant, Puck, to get a flower that has the power to make people fall in love with the FIRST creature that they see when the juice is placed in their eyelids when they fall asleep. He instructs Puck to put some on Demetrius' eyes. Mistaking Demetrius, he seeks Lysander so that when he is woken by Helena, he immediately falls in love with her and rejects Hermia. OH NO! Helena & Demetrius were tired of arguing, so they chased one another through the woods and when Demetrius rests, Oberon puts magic juice on his eyes so that both he and Lysander pursue Helena until the four lovers fall asleep. Puck puts juice on Lysander's eyes before the four lovers are woken by Theseus & Hippolyta (queen of Amazons and betrothed to Theseus) and their hunting party. Happily reunited with each other, Lysander with Hermia, Demetrius with Helena, they agree to share the duke's wedding day. YEHEY!
The story is so...AWESOME!
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