Character Analysis: Hermia Take 2

In Act II Scene II of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia and Lysander get lost in the woods. Lysander suggests that they rest until morning, and Hermia replies,

HERMIA:
[Be] it so, Lysander. Find you out a bed,
For I upon this bank will rest my head.
LYSANDER:
One turf shall serve as pillow for us both;
One heart, one bed, two bosoms, and one troth.
HERMIA:
Nay, good Lysander. For my sake, my dear,
Lie further off yet. Do not lie so near.
(2:2:45-50)

Here Hermia shows her responsibility. She doesn't want to be "tempted" if she were to share a bed with Lysander. For "love and courtesy" (2:2:62), she wishes that he "lie further off in human modesty" (2:2:63). Lysander respescts her wishes, and they fall asleep.

Puck comes along and mistakeingly annoits Lysander with the love nectar, causing Lysander to fall in love with Helena and forget all about Hermia. Interestingly, it seems like Shakespeare was foreshadowing this when he had Hermia say to Lysander just before falling asleep, "Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end" (2:2:67).

When Hermia awakes, she is frantic and scared, yelling for Lysander but he does not appear. A clueless and worried Hermia immediately exits the scene to find her lost love.

Hermia would be acted out as confident in the first half of this scene. But when awaking from her sleep, and not finding Lysander near, fear would consume her, and be clearly evident on her face. Worried now, and no longer feeling safe, she would hurredly rush off.