Epilogue Of A Midsummer Night's Dream

In the comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare, he repeatedly comes back to his many ideas of love and people’s ability to believe in it. He does this with the play put on at Theseus’ wedding and with Robin’s epilogue. Although many people might not understand his interpretation of love, Shakespeare uses that to his advantage to say something about the relationship between the real world and his imagination. He wants to give everyone a chance at learning the different meanings of love, so he created a play that could show that. Shakespeare uses the play and the epilogue to further explain his interpretation of love, to show the difference between reality and imagination, and to show how people see love in different ways. In
In the beginning of his dialogue, he says “If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended”. (Shakespeare, 163). This means that if there is someone reading that cannot comprehend the deeper meaning of the play, they have an alternative to make it simpler. People perceive love in different ways, and the epilogue recognizes that. Robin also states “If we have unearned luck Now to ‘scape he serpent’s tongue” (Shakespeare, 163). Some people don’t like to accept that there are other views besides their own, and they might hiss at the play when it is over because they don’t know the actual meaning behind it. This relates to the Pyramus and Thisbe play because it is the same situation, with reality not being able to make sense of the deeper meaning, and imagination trying to make amends with the people who don’t get it. Although love should be a topic that does not have that much depth to it, everyone has different ideas of what it should be and what it should look like. This epilogue is giving people another chance to understand it by saying if you cannot make sense of it in reality, think of it as a dream, because in dreams nothing has to make