MSND Blog Post: How feminine passions subordinate over male dominance.

In a Midsummer's Night Dream, the dominance of feminine passions of romantic love overpowers male subordinates in MSND through the power that Hermia and Helena have over their lovers.  The power of the fairies gives an influence on the value of women, such as when the spell when the switch was made. Demetrius and Lysander found themselves fighting over the women because their love is worth fighting for because it is so powerful.
    The value of a woman's love in the play is so powerful that the men who raised them have to control who they marry and the women who portray love ultimately get their way. And both Helena and Hermia ultimately get what they want due to the fact that their fathers and suitors know that a woman's love is so powerful that they need it to live a purposeful life in their society. The romantic love overpowers the male subordinates ultimately because, at the end of the play, Hermia's father, Egeus decides to cave in and let Hermia marry Lysander because he knows that they are in love ultimately. And on the other hand, Demetrius decides to marry Helena because he realizes that he would rather have a woman's unwanted love than to be alone in life. The power of feminine romance is a magnetic force, that draws in those that do not accept or want it.