The first example of personification occurs very early in the play, almost at the outset as the play is just starting to be set up by its author. The line reads, "Oh spite! Too old to be engaged to young." The speaker of this quote is Hermia and she is talking to Lysander and she is explaining that someone who is spiteful cannot love no matter what there age is. The two are discussing their love for one another, but they now that only they themselves can cause their love not to work out in the end. Hermia shows that she and Lysander must not worry about how others feel about the love that they have for one another as long as they remain in love and together with each other. .
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The second example of personification took place only two pages after the first example and there was a new speaker involved. The speaker of the quote was Helena and the quote was, "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind." Helena uses this quote by showing that love is determined by the thought process of thinking of someone else and not by just looking at someone alone. Helena is speaking on her love for Demetrius as she is reflecting on the visible love that Hermia and Lysander share and she wonders why can/t she and Demetrius share the exact same love for one another that the aforementioned couple share. Helena seems to be venting her frustrations with love out and showing the reader that it is sad to be in love with someone who doesn't in turn love you mutually. .
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The third example of personification came in the Second Act of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The speaker of the quote was Lysander who had just awoken from a deep sleep. The lines in which Lysander spoke were, "Fair love, your faint with wandering in the wood". Love is given the human-like characteristic of fainting and these lines represent the journey that Lysander and Hermia have taken to meet in the forest and Hermia is tired due to the long trek in which she had endured.