AMND+Wiki+2009-10+Act+I+Sara

. ** I am going to write a summary of the first chapter. **

In the first act scene 1 the people show us what theire life kind of looks like and what the people did in that time for example on pages 4-6 it shows us that the the father had the total power at that time and that the father could do with his daughter/son everything he wants to do! That is what Hermia's father does with her; he wants to make her marry Demetrius even though she does not like him, and he does not want her to marry Lysander, which does not make any sense at all because she likes him and on page 8 he tells Egeus ( Hermia's father ) that he has more money than Demetrius and that was at that time very important. But there were also good people**__,__** because two people who love each other got together and they are going to marry! Theseus and Hippolyta were together and Theseus was like a king and if somebody had a problem like Egeus had one, because Hermia did not want to marry Demetrius you could go to Theseus, and that is exactly what Egeus did. And at that time, there was a rule which said that if you do not marry the man your father wants you to, you have to die or you have to go to the cloister which means that you have to stay a virgin for ever. If you decide that you do not want to marry then it is a shame for your family and that is why most of the people did what they had to do at that time!

That is what I understood from the first chapter.