He's just an Athenian guy, fairly well-born and rich.
Lysander is in love with Hermia at the beginning of the play but cannot marry her because her father will not consent. Demetrius is also sort of in love with her but cannot marry her because she refuses to marry him.
Hermia loves Lysander. Lysander and Demetrius both love Hermia. Helena loves Demetrius.
Before the play starts Helena is engaged with Demetrius, and Hermia and Lysander are in love with each other and are planning to get married. But then Demetrius falls in love with Hermia and wants to marry her, Hermia still loves Lysander and does not want to marry Demetrius (Hermia's father wants Hermia to marry Demetrius). Helena still loves Demetrius. Then Lysander loves Helena who loves Demetrius who loves Hermia, Hermia still loves Lysander. Demetrius then changes his thoughts and starts to love Helena again, but Lysander is still in love with Helena. But then every thing changes as everyone goes back to who they loved in the first place; Helena -> Demetrius Demetrius -> Helena Hermia -> Lysander Lysander -> Hermia Very confusing! :)
In A Midsummer's Night Dream, Helena believes that Lysander's love for her and Hermia's lack of understanding is a ruse or prank. Seeing that Lysander's love for Hermia was a strong love previous to the nectar applied by Robin, it seems implausible that he would fall in love for her so strongly. In addition, Hermia's complete confusion of what is happening promotes the thought that Lysander's love of Hermia is false for if Lysander truly loved Helena, wouldn't Hermia have known?
She is described as being small and dark, in contrast to Helena who is tall and fair. The Lord Chamberlain's Men at this time must have had two boy apprentices who matched this description, although hair colour could easily be changed with a wig.
She loved Lysander.
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In "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Lysander's sudden change in love interest is caused by Puck's misguided love potion that he mistakenly applies to Lysander's eyes while he sleeps. This leads Lysander to fall in love with Helena instead of Hermia when he wakes up.
Demetrius - Is a young nobleman of Athens. In the past, Demetrius acted as if he loved Helena, but after Helena fell in love with him, he changed his mind and pursued Hermia. Emboldened by Egeus's approval of him, Demetrius is undeterred by the fact that Hermia does not want him. Lysander- Is a young nobleman of Athens in love with Hermia. Although Hermia's father refuses to let her marry Lysander, Lysander believes that love must conquer all obstacles, so he persuades Hermia to run away from her home and family with him, into the forest.
She loved Lysander.
His line "The one I"ll slay, the other slayeth me" suggests that he plans to kill Lysander, which will make Hermia love him. Yeah, right.
Puck assumes that Hermia and Lysander are the Athenian couple who are in love and planning to elope. This assumption leads to Puck mistakenly applying magic to the wrong Athenian.