4. Egeus is angry because he wants his doughter to marry Demetrius
but she is in love with Lysander
5. Egeus tells Hernia she must obey her father or as accordance with Athenian law,
be executed.
Theseus, duke of Athens tells Hernia there is another alternative. She can live a
convent isolated from men
6. Lysander, who loves Hernia sugges they escape the law of Athens and go to his
aunt’s house, wich is nearly a wood where they can marry
At this moment Hernia’s
best friend, Helena enters
so Lysander and Hernia tell
her of their escape plan
7. But hoping to win Demetrius Love, Helena tell him about the plan for
young enter the wood where they meet the fair Oberon
King of the faries want to help Helena to win Demetrio’s Love and orders his
chief fairy assistant Puck, tapply the twice of a magic flower to Demetrius eyes as
lies slepping in the wood.
8. • The juice makes people fall in love with the first person we see when
they awake. But Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius, so Lysander falls
passionally in love with Helena and abandone Hernia.
9. When she sees the mistake the uses the magic juice on Demetrius to make him
also love Helena
The two young womens angry and confused
10. and the two men begin to fight
Puck to remove Lysander love for Helena and return it to the fair lovers love new
in harmony
