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Themes of __A Midsummer Night's Dream__

In __A Midsummer Night’s Dream__, Shakespeare shows different types of themes. Themes which are also acutell and important for today. The connection is clear to identify and lets people start to think about them.

The most important and biggest theme is love. Love, which is describing as warm and would be suitable, is also unfortunate and tragic love with a broken heart. All the lovers Hippolyta and Theseus, Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius married at the end of the play. Till they can get marry, the lovers had to live a really confusing time. Not everyone of them was happy; first Lysander and Demetrius loved Hermia. Anyway Hermia loved only Lysander and at the same time Helena loved Demetrius. The only lovers which were happy were Hippolyta and Theseus. They planned to get married from the beginning on. During this play, the love position changed a lot of times. It was really confusing but at the end, everyone was happy. That reflects love today. But in this time, the tradition was that the father chose the man for his daughter. So, Egeus would chose the man for Hermia. Egeus has chosen Demetrius. Hermia decided what she wanted, she escaped with Lysander for her dad. "Maintain the traditions or not?", was so a big issue in this play. Love isn’t always easy. However, the hope of the lovers and the positive thinking of those people let them have what they wanted so much. They were able to marry. That means sometimes, you have to think on what you wish and then maybe it will become reality.

This theme is connected to another type of theme. This theme is dreams. Dreams are made of fantasy. All people should have fantasy to imagine anything. Sometimes it takes you to the strangest thoughts, but some dreams can become real. The biggest wish of the lovers was to marry, and at the end they did. So the positive thoughts and believing in something is important. This reflects the whole conflict in this play. However, at the end the lovers resolve with their hope.