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Themes from the book ** __A Midsummer Night's Dream__ **

Probably **__A Midsummer night's dream__** is one of the greatest plays that William Shakespeare ever wrote. You can relate this book to every time in world history because in every time- period people fall in love with each other and sometimes the person you like does not like you back which causes problems sometimes. Sometimes people fell like Helena or Hermia, but sometimes they feel like the boys who fight for Helena and/or Hermia.

As the title already says the dreams are a very important part of the book. The first speech of Hippolyta:

Four days will quickly steep themselves in night. Four night will quickly dream away the time.
 * Hyppolyta:**

shows that it is going to be one of the most important themes that the people dream or when they think that they dream like Bottom:

**Bottom ( line 202-204):** I have had a dream-- past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.

He is very confused because he really thought that everything that happened was just a dream; even thou it was feeling really authentic. And also Demetrius thinks that he is dreaming when something is real:

**Demetrius ( 191- 193):** Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to me That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think The duke was here, and bid us follow him?

He thinks that everything just goes too well and that it could not be true.__Shakespeare is also interested in the actual workings of dreams, in how events occur without explanation, time loses its normal sense of flow, and the impossible occurs as it would be something that is not too hard to reach.__ **(Are these your ideas? If you got them from somewhere, you need to quote it or tell me where you got it. If not, I need to understand more what you mean by these ideas.)** What I think is very interesting is that at the end Robin Goodfellow says:

** Robin Goodfellow ( 407- 408): ** And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream.

because that also relates to the title. I think it would be very funny to read this book in a hot summer night. I mean if you read it in a summer at night and then dream about it... Don't you think that would be kind of ironic?

Another very interesting theme __**is the theme about the**__ magic. The __**fairies**__ magic brings a lot of confusion into the play. Shakespeare uses magic to express the very strong power of love __**an**__ also to create a fantasy world. Even though magic causes some __**"miss understandings",**__ as when Robin Goodfellow put the love flower into Lysander's eyes by mistake. another confusion is when Puck recreates the voices of Lysander and Demetrius however I think it is funny that they really thought that it was every time the other man who is talking and that they were so surprised he was gone so fastly. __**(Huh?)**__ As well as the fact that he made Bottom look like an ass head. **(These sentences are not as polished as the previous paragraph.)**

In this special and also very interesting book it is very fascinating that the love is out of balance for example

Hermia ->Love<- Lysander (Balanced love) Hermia<- Demetrius (Unbalanced love) Demetrius<- Helena (Unbalanced love)

and you can also see some kind of unbalanced love between Bottom and Titania; While Titania is beautiful and full of grace Bottom is ugly and he is not even a nobel not to mention that he is not a god! And because Oberon wants to get the indian prince their love is also somehow unbalanced. **(This is a fantastic idea. Everything ends back to normal, though, by play's end, and you need to explain this.)**


 * Still needs a proper conclusion, but this is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better.**