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A Midsummer’s Night Dream Themes
Love is a major theme in ‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream’. When Lysander says; ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ comments Lysander, it makes a point that love is very unpredictable and unfair which sums up the theme of love from throughout the rest of the play. Most of love’s difficulty in the play is often because the love is just so out of balance, that is, romantic situations in which inequality helps destroy most of the harmony of a relationship. The first time we get a sense of this imbalance when we see the strange love among the four young Athenians: Hermia loves Lysander, Lysander loves Hermia, Helena loves Demetrius, and Demetrius loves Hermia instead of Helena. The simple numeric imbalance in which two men love the same woman, leaving one woman with too many suitors and one with too few shows how unfair and cruel love is. The play has strong potential for a traditional outcome, and the plot is in many ways based on a quest for internal balance; that is, when the lovers’ tangle resolves itself into symmetrical pairings, the traditional happy ending will have been achieved. Somewhat similarly, in the relationship between Titania and Oberon, an imbalance arises out of the fact that Oberon’s coveting of Titania’s Indian boy outweighs his love for her. Later, Titania’s passion for the ass-headed Bottom represents an imbalance of appearance and nature: Titania is beautiful and graceful, while Bottom is clumsy and ugly; this shows how random and uncontrollable love can be.
Dreams are a subtle but still important theme in a, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’; they are linked to the bizarre, magical mishaps in the forest, mysterious and still not completely understood. Hippolyta’s first words in the play is evidence that the characters are aware of the dreams, ‘Four days will quickly steep themselves in night, / Four nights will quickly dream away the time’, and various characters mention dreams throughout The theme of
Love is a major theme in ‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream’. When Lysander says; ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ comments Lysander, it makes a point that love is very unpredictable and unfair which sums up the theme of love from throughout the rest of the play. Most of love’s difficulty in the play is often because the love is just so out of balance, that is, romantic situations in which inequality helps destroy most of the harmony of a relationship. The first time we get a sense of this imbalance when we see the strange love among the four young Athenians: Hermia loves Lysander, Lysander loves Hermia, Helena loves Demetrius, and Demetrius loves Hermia instead of Helena. The simple numeric imbalance in which two men love the same woman, leaving one woman with too many suitors and one with too few shows how unfair and cruel love is. The play has strong potential for a traditional outcome, and the plot is in many ways based on a quest for internal balance; that is, when the lovers’ tangle resolves itself into symmetrical pairings, the traditional happy ending will have been achieved. Somewhat similarly, in the relationship between Titania and Oberon, an imbalance arises out of the fact that Oberon’s coveting of Titania’s Indian boy outweighs his love for her. Later, Titania’s passion for the ass-headed Bottom represents an imbalance of appearance and nature: Titania is beautiful and graceful, while Bottom is clumsy and ugly; this shows how random and uncontrollable love can be.
Dreams are a subtle but still important theme in a, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’; they are linked to the bizarre, magical mishaps in the forest, mysterious and still not completely understood. Hippolyta’s first words in the play is evidence that the characters are aware of the dreams, ‘Four days will quickly steep themselves in night, / Four nights will quickly dream away the time’, and various characters mention dreams throughout The theme of