Fairies In A Midsummer's Night Dream

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream a play centering around lovers, performers, and mischievous fairies in a forest outside of Athens. There are 3 subplots within the play that take place throughout the night: a love rectangle, preparation for a play for the Duke’s wedding, and a feud between the king and queen of the fairies. These subplots however, all become intertwined with one another as the play goes on. Two of the subplots have very distinguishable characters, but one of them, specifically the love rectangle, seems to have interchangeable characters. The lovers can be interchangeable, as it does not matter who ends up with who at the end of the play since they get switched around so much. It seems that the only ones who are concerned about “who-ends-up-with who” are the lovers themselves.
However, the conflict is that the only mutual love is between Hermia and Lysander, but her father, Egeus, is against the two’s love for one another. He instead demands that she marries Demetrius or live off as a nun for the rest of her life. Both men are shown to be in love with Hermia. That love is very much a prominent trait between the men. Even more so as they are in love with the same woman in the beginning and middle of the play! Their love for Hermia is a prominent part of their personalities. Both men have a lack of personality and a lack of a distinguishable appearance as well. The appearances of the men are not distinguishable to the audience. Even Puck had gotten the two men mixed up when going through with Oberon’s orders of using the “love-in-idleness”. He had them mixed up through Oberon’s orders of finding an Athenian man who is disgusted with the love of another