A Midsummer Night's Dream
EmptyEyes for Lysander
A young man of Athens, in love with Hermia. Lysander's relationship with Hermia invokes the theme of love's difficulty; he cannot marry her openly because Egeus, her father, wishes her to wed Demetrius; when Lysander and Hermis run away into the forest, Lysander becomes the victim of misapplied magic and wakes up in love with Helena.
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- english (british)
- male teen
How now, my live? Why is your cheek so pale? How chance the roses there do fade so fast?
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, war, death or sickness did lay siege to it, making it momentary as a sound, swift as a shadow, short as any dream, brief as the lightning in the collied night; that, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth, and ere a man hath power to say "Behold!" the jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion.
(waking) And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake. Transparent Helena! Nature shows art that through thy bosom makes me see thy heart. Where is Demetrius? Oh, how fit a word is that vile name to perish on my sword!