Theseus offers her another choice: lifelong chastity as a nun worshipping the goddess Diana.
Enraged, Egeus invokes an ancient Athenian law before Duke Theseus, whereby a daughter needs to marry a suitor chosen by her father, or else face death. Helena, Hermia's best friend, pines unrequitedly for Demetrius, who broke up with her to be with Hermia. The play opens with Hermia who is in love with Lysander, resistant to her father Egeus's demand that she wed Demetrius, whom he has arranged for her to marry. The play consists of five interconnecting plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which are set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon. Hermia and Helena by Washington Allston, 1818
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