William Shakespeare intensifies the emotion of love and foolishness in the epic tale of four lovers and an enchanted forest in his classic Midsummer Night s Dream Early in this work we learn of two young maidens Hermia and Helena and their unfulfilled passions Hermia the daughter of a gentleman is cast into the burden of marrying a suitor Demetrius chosen by her father for which she does not love Instead she has fallen for Lysander To agitate further Helena is madly in love with Demetrius who t