Puck a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream says, "Lord what fools these mortals be" (3.2.115). This is in reference to the four young lovers of the play. Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and Helena all act foolishly in their quest for eternal love. The risks they take and the eventual adventure they experience in the forest is the direct result of these young lovers running away with their hearts, instead of their minds.
Hemia's foolish act is to agree to run away with Lysander at the risk of death. "Lysander and myself will fly this place." (1.1.202). She is going against the direct wishes of her father, Egeus. He feels that as her father he has the right to choice who Hermia should marry. "As she is mine, I may dispose of her; which shall be either to this gentleman, Or to her death, according to our law" (1.1.42-44). Later in the forest Hermia is shocked to learn that Lysander has changed his mind and now loves Helena. She even scorns her sister, "O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love! What have you come by night and stolen my love's heart from him?" (3.2.282-284). She has been the object of not one but two men's hearts and now the shoe is on the other foot. Hermia is a little jealous, "but that my nails can reach unto thine eyes" (3.2.298). All that has happened in a short while confuses her. She may have wished to go back in time a day and agree to marry Demetrius.
Lysander, Hermia's true love, is the one who instigates Hermia's running away. She runs the risk of dieing if they are caught. Both Demetrius and Lysander is a good match for Hermia. Lysander tries to fight his cause before Theseus and Egeus, "I am my lord, as well derived as he, As well possessed; my love is more than his" (1.1.99-100). The problem is that Egeus wants his daughter Hermia to marry Demetrius. Even Theseus is in agreement with this match. .
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They are foolish because they act like children. Although Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena appear grown-up, when they are in love they act foolishly. The four teenage lovers are fools. ... Therefore this proves, the four teenage lovers are fools. ... William Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Dream shows how childishly foolish lovers can be...
They are foolish because they act like children. Although Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena appear grown-up, when they are in love they act foolishly. The four teenage lovers are fools. ... Therefore this proves, the four teenage lovers are fools. ... William Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Dream shows how childishly foolish lovers can be....
They are foolish because they act like children. Although Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena appear grown-up, when they are in love they act foolishly. The four teenage lovers are fools. ... Therefore this proves, the four teenage lovers are fools. ... William Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Dream shows how childishly foolish lovers can be....
Romeo and Juliet were "star-crossed lovers," as the prologue at the start of the play indicated. ... Fate can be a very powerful force that is able to drive us into foolish situations, good or bad. ... Before the young lovers can settle their plans, more fighting breaks out between the feuding families. ...
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends. ... The mentally ill hallucinate, lovers see ugly people as beautiful, and poets create an imaginary world to give life to ideas by "giving to aery nothing a local habitation and a name." After hearing of the events in the woods shared between the young lovers, Theseus feels that the events are "more strange than true," as they are more bizarre than realistic. He thus concludes that men of all types are all connected by their inevitable foolish reactions to love. ... ...
Foolish, quick thinking put Romeo and Juliet in their dilemma which seemed to have no answers besides suicide. ... For instance, one of his foolish thoughts was after he heard of Juliet's death he immediately acted. ... If these two passionate lovers had taken life in more moderate doses, they might have seen happier days. ...
A foolish but affectionate wife, Olenka does gain happiness when married to her first two husbands- theater owner Kukin, and timber merchant Pustovalov- because she has someone to dote on, and Olenka "could not exist without loving."" ... When Olenka can not turn to any more lovers for attention, the protagonist focuses all of her attention on Sasha, the abandoned son of her former lover. ...
The four main characters are the young lovers: Demetrius, Lyasander, Hermia and Helena. The four "star crossed lovers", are tormented by the mischief of a fairy called Puck. ... This foolish self-importance reaches its pinnacle after Puck transforms Bottom's head into that of an ass. ... The meddling with the four lovers all turns out well in the end. ... The excitement of the lovers is greatly shared with the audience, and draws us in, making us part of the play. ...
Shakespeare was likely alluding to the fact that we as a society were beginning to have too many worries, and were becoming extreme with our "social rules" and many of them would seem foolish to us if we would simply distance ourselves from them and take a look at our society from an outsider's view. ... The play makes it clear that Puck either does not understand the mortals, or if he does, he believes their thoughts, actions, and way of life to be foolish. ... It sets the stage for a mind to think whether or not Puck really is a more intelligent being than the Athenian lovers,...