Lysander (Shakespeare)
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Lysander is one of the iconic lovers in William Shakespeare's play: A Midsummer Night's Dream. A young man of Athens, Lysander is in love with Hermia. Lysander’s relationship with Hermia invokes the theme of love’s difficulty: he cannot marry her openly because Egeus, (Hermia's father), wishes her to wed Demetrius; when Lysander and Hermia run away to his aunt's house by a forest route, Lysander, and Demetrius also, becomes the victim of misapplied magic from a magical flower caused by Puck and wakes up in love with Helena.This later gets sorted out by use of magic. Lysander falls in love with Hermia again and marries her, and Demetrius continues to love Helena and marries her. Lysander tells Hermia that "the course of true love never did run smooth".
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