WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read the extract below and answer the question:
And in the wood, when often you and I
Upon faint primrose-beds were women lie,
Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,
There, my Lysander and myself shall meet,
And these from Athens turn away our eyes
To see new friends and stranger companies
Farewell, sweet playfellow;...
The couple are going to the wood because
Hermia and Lysander plan to escape to the woods because Athenian law, as enforced by Theseus and Egeus, dictates that Hermia must marry Demetrius or face either death or a life of celibacy. To avoid this fate, they decide to flee Athens and marry outside its jurisdiction. This decision sets off the chain of events in the play, leading to the magical confusion in the forest.
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