So my English class is going to be reading A Midsommer Night's Dreame. (I'm sorry, but I just can't write it the new english way...) and it does actually make me laugh, however when I tell my peers this they look at me like I'm a nutcase. You see, Hermia and Lysander are in love, right? Well Hermia is supposed to love Demetrius, according to her father. So Lysander and Hermia decide to run away together and get married seven leagues away. (about 21 miles) Well then Oberon and Titania come into the picture. They are... erm... Fairy king and queen? and they're having a fight. So Oberon decides to take flower juice and pour it into his wife's eyes so that when she wakes, the first being she sees, she will fall in love with. As he is gathering the flower, he tells his fairy, Puck, to take a petal and put some juice in the Athenian Demetrius's eye. So Robin goes. However, Robin sees Lysander first, who is wearing Athenian clothes, and puts the juice in his eyes while he is asleep a few feet away from Hermia. So when Helena, in love with Demetrius, comes along, following him, Lysander wakes and sees her. He falls in love with her, and runs away after her.
Can't you see the comedy in all this?
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