First love essay Rough draft In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the characters Hermia and Lysander face a difficult situation when they want to get married and are forbidden by Hermia's father, who instead wishes her to marry another young man, Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander were forced to plead her case before both her father and the Duke of Athens, Theseus. But Theseus' only words to Hermia are those telling her that she should be obedient to her father. His requests are essentially ignored. While it's unfortunate that her thoughts don't have to be rethought, Hermia's situation is relatable to most people because most people have experienced romantic love for the first time at some point, and that's what makes her understandable and likeable. character. My experience with first love isn't exactly the same as most. I wasn't in middle school when I got my first kiss. I didn't get swept up in a summer romance in high school. I spent my entire childhood not feeling true love, and for the most part I was okay with it, even if others around me weren't. I was almost forced by my family to have an affair throughout high school (I was a late bloomer: when I was nineteen, I was the oldest woman in my family who hadn't been married). All around me my friends were dating and finding "love," whatever that meant to them, and I wasn't. My family and friends considered me some kind of pariah because I had never had a boyfriend and didn't like talking about it to anyone at school. Then, my freshman year of college, I met a wonderful guy and we immediately started dating. Suddenly, the dynamic changed in how people saw me. Suddenly I wasn't "old enough to already have...... half the paper ...... gives the idea of ​​the love that the two are, as illustrated by Lysander's flowery words of love, it is easy to see that they have little or no experience in a real relationship, especially a serious one. Even during the first scene of the first act, Lysander says to Hermia: “Ay me tale or story / The course of true love has never run smoothly . (A Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1.132) Although Lysander falls into this "marriageable age" range of about thirty-five, his descriptions of the idea of ​​love show that he is rather inexperienced in the matter. Works CitedWilson, NG "Demography." of Ancient Greece. New York: Routledge, 2006. 214. Print.Shakespeare, William, Gail Kern Paster and Skiles Howard "A Midsummer Night's Dream: Texts and Contexts." . Martin's, 1999. Print.