“A Midsummer Night's Dream” begins like many typical romantic stories. Two people are in love; in this case, Hermia and Lysander. But an obstacle stands in their way; in this case, Hermia's father who wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. However, this is where this play begins to differ from all the others. Shakespeare leads four crossed lovers, Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, and Lysander, through a winding path that somehow magically ends with everyone happily married. The key aspect of this play is Shakespeare's development of the different characters. In the performance of the drama; a character's appearance, personality, and character are used together to help unfold the story. Characters convey many different types of information through an art form called characterization. In the play “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” William Shakespeare does an exceptional job in describing each of the four young lovers. Each of the characters has been given a personality, distinct or vague, that distinguishes them from the other characters in the work. Through the actions of the different antagonists, Shakespeare reveals to the audience the different and distinct aspects of each character, including the physical appearance, personality, and specific traits of each character. One aspect that makes the four characters differ is their physical appearance. While the author Shakespeare makes Lysander and Demetrius appear with practically indistinguishable physical and monetary figures, he comparatively makes the appearances of Hermia and Helena quite distinguishable, their names being the only thing that is remotely similar between the two of them. Hermia's physical appearance is described as having "blessed and attractive eyes" (ACT... middle of paper... the magic flower). Although some aspects of these four characters are similar to each other, Shakespeare cleverly managed to make each personality vaguely different from the others, for example, while he suggests that Hermia and Helena are similar in appearance, the women are markedly different from each other. other because Hermia is more confident and borders on rebellious, while Helena is very insecure towards the other. point of paranoia. Likewise, while Lysander and Demetrius are similar in appearance and perhaps some personality traits, they are markedly different because Demetrius is an idiot and Lysander is a romantic. These are just some of the ways Shakespeare used to create unique characters. Furthermore, the complete distinction between the four lovers comes only from Shakespeare's ability to contrast the physical appearance, personality and character traits of the characters..