Lysander's primary character trait is the same as Demetrius's primary character trait. As a matter of fact, the two of them are basically interchangeable. What operates strongly in both of them is the fact that both are ruled by their passions. When their passions are engaged, all they are able to focus on is getting those passions fulfilled. Neither one employs much, if any, thought in their pursuits of the objects of their desire, and when, through Puck's magic, and through the fickle-ness natural to this level of romantic passion, the object of their passions shift, they blindly go along with the new focus of their desires without a moment of self-questioning or regard for the abandoned love object. Lysander's primary character trait would be, then, mindless obedience to personal, passionate desire.
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