When Lysander speaks to Hermia in Act I, Scene I; it both states a truth about the mystery of love, while also foreshadowing the problems to come in the play. Aegeus demanded that his daughter obey him and marry Demetrius. The tension between the father and his daughter's chosen lover sparked the conflict. Demetrius left with Theseus, Hippolytus and Egeus to discuss the marriage of the Duke of Athens. The young lovers Lysander and Hermia remain on stage and he tells her in lines 132-134: "For all that I have read, that I have heard by tale or by story, the course of true love does not It never went smoothly. » He says these words to comfort Hermia, but neither of them has the slightest idea of ​​the crazy night that will arrive in the