Theme Of The Dream In A Midsummer Night's Dream

Titania is uncertain whether her vision is a dream or reality, because dreams are soon

When love is in attendance it brings care, faith, affection and intimacy. This is proved true in the spectacular play A Midsummer Night's Dream written by William Shakespeare. This play displays the facts about lust, hatred, jealousy and their roles in something powerfully desirable. It is entitled love. Love is present everywhere, in every form, in every condition and even when one least expects it.

Love is a very common theme that is seen in literature, and love is one of the most powerful things that can be felt for someone or something. Love can drive a person to do incredible or horrible things, and we see many forms of love that take place in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is demonstrated in the book by many characters including Hermia and Lysander who demonstrate true love. Titania and Bottom show magical love. In the play, love is also the cause of a few broken hearts. While there is no one common definition of love that suits all of the characters, the romantic relationship in the play all leans to one simple rule laid out by Lysander, “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

Thesis: In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare demonstrates two opposite worlds: one is world of law, rules and strict hierarchy and another is world of freedom, magic, lawlessness and disorder - which world is correct one?

There are many different themes in The Midsummer Night’s Dream. The main theme or the most important is deception. Deception occurs to many actors in the book. The top three groups that deception has occurred to are, the first group Bottom, Titania, and Oberon. The second group is Lysander and Hermia deceiving the kingdom. The last group is the Actors. Deception is the action of deceiving someone.

A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare demonstrates that imagination is an amazing thing, as it allows the audience to think differently and be unique and form new ideas, concepts and images. Shakespeare’s play uses an immense amount of imagination to help develop the story create conflicts and complications to engage the audience. Imagination is also used in the way Shakespeare presents the play to the audience and in the way the characters are presented.

Throughout literary history, different themes have proven to be consistently popular for audiences. The desire to present an accurate reflection of reality has proven to be a major source of inspiration for both authors and readers alike. Reality as a theme is prevalent in literature, and the numerous ways that reality and illusion intertwine. In William Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the illusory world which the characters inhabit is enhanced by the supernatural. The relationship between Oberon and Titania contributes to the development of the play’s theme of reality and illusion; they are the catalyst by which the play’s action occurs, and their spontaneous natures are countered with human flaws, further

Hermia’s father told his daughter she could marry Demetrius, become a nun, or die. Hermia does not like any of those choices, so rebels against her father and decides to go and marry Lysander, her true lover. Love causes Hermia to choose Lysander, which shows how the human nature of love has controlling powers. However, in the end, Hermia’s father accepts the fact that his daughter has love for Lysander and allows them to marry, but not just because they love each other. The marriage of Hermia and Lysander results from Demetrius falling out of love with Hermia. In Hamlet, Hamlet decides to obey and remain loyal to his father, while in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia decides to go against her father’s requests because of her love for Lysander. While these Shakespearean plays produce two different outcomes between the human nature of love and loyalty, they both show how love controls the loyalty of a person to a loved one.

Shakespeare’s usage of metaphor and simile in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is best understood as an attempt to provide some useful context for relationships and emotions, most often love and friendship, or the lack thereof. One example of such a usage is in Act 3, Scene 2 of the play. Here, the two Athenian couples wake up in the forest and fall under the effects of the flower, thus confusing the romantic relationships between them. Hermia comes to find her Lysander has fallen for Helena. Hermia suspects that the two have both conspired against her in some cruel joke, and begins lashing out against Helena. She says “We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, / Have with our needles created both one flower, / Both one sampler sitting on one cushion, / Both warbling of one song, both in one key; / As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, / Had been incorporate. So we grew together, / Like a double cherry, seeming parted; / But yet a union in partition / Two lovely berries moulded on one stem: / So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; / Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, / Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.” (Shakespeare 2.3.206-13). Shakespeare writes this list of vibrant metaphors to establish the prior relationship between these two characters and to make it evident how affected Helena is by this unexpected turn of events, as well as to add a greater range of emotion to the comedy, thereby lending it more literary and popular appeal.

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play that utilises comedy to convey complex ideas that are seen throughout the play, concepts like the jealousy Helena has towards Hermia, Egeus’s strong hostility towards Hermia and Lysander’s relationship and unrequited love. He uses comical tools like unconscious irony and hyperbole to turn rather difficult topics into humorous representations of them. Events like how Puck thinks Titania had fallen in love with him, not knowing he was bearing the head of an ass, are portrayed in a humorous way so the viewer understands the meaning, but sees it as a light- hearted narrative. Shakespeare carefully uses comedy that does not overpower the meaning of the play, but puts a completely different perspective on some of the themes.

The Theme of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare presents us with multiple types of love by using numerous couples in various different situations. For example: Doting loves, the love induced by Oberon's potion and in some aspects, Lysander and Hermia's love for each other; there are true loves: Oberon and Titania, Lysander and Hermia (for the first half at least, as Lysander's love switches to Helena temporarily) and Theseus and Hippolyta. Also, there is Helena's love for Demetrius, which could be described as a true love, even though at first it is unrequited.

The Theme of Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare In the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ many aspects of love are explored. In this essay I will be exploring how Shakespeare conveys the theme of love including illusion, confusion, escape, harmony and lust. Historically, it has been suggested that ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was written for a wedding, signifying the importance of love in this play, however there is no real evidence to prove this myth.

Some people believe in magic, while others do not. Magic alters something or someone using supernatural forces. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, magic is a secret, mysterious force. Characters are influenced into love by the power of a magic potion. Titania, the queen of the fairies, falls in love with Nick Bottom, a mechanical actor, who is a non-magical character. Lysander, one of the four lovers, falls in love with Helena after being desperately in love with Hermia. Finally, Demetrius falls in love with Helena, whom he hated before, changing the entire love triangle within the play. Magic influences the characters in the play because it clouds their judgement by making them fall in love with someone who they did not think of loving before.

In William Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" many symbols, imagery, allusions and dramatic irony are portrayed throughout the play. The collage helped to showcase the major idea's and connections to the play with the use of the dramatic elements.

Transformation is defined as a dramatic change in either an object, or in one’s form or appearance. Imagine the way a tree grows over time, the plant originally starts out as a small seed that one could fit into the palm of their hand, to eventually grow and morph into something much bigger and stronger. People behave the same way. We grow from naïve and fool-hearted children into the adults we become later in life. We may cut our hair, or change our clothes in ways of transforming our outer appearance, but we also change our moralities as we become exposed to different ideas and different people. It happens to our emotions as well. Though an emotion may have the potential to be forever constant, other circumstances will reveal that a once loving couple may fall out of their passion. Trees and people don’t have many similarities; however, both change constantly throughout their lifetimes. Trees change in physical appearance, people change in everything. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare, the four main characters as well as some minor characters experience transformations on their journey, that directly affect the path ahead. These changes are physical, mental, and above all emotionally endearing.