A Midsummer Night's Dream Moon Analysis

THE MOON William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream establishes a symbolic metaphor that distinguishes all the characters as a whole. Throughout the novel the moon is used as metaphor to create love and chaos. Characters continue to describe the moon through their relationships and their needs. With characters such as Theseus venting about how he has to wait to be with Hippolyta expresses that the day is the happiness with Hippolyta, but the moon is the darkness, expressing his sexual desire. Also, characters such as Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius we continue to see this theme of chaos and love through a conflict with magic within the fairies . Shakespeare illustrates to the audience that the moon as a metaphor through chaos, and how …show more content…
In Act III, we see the moonlight continuing its influential role. With the fairies putting sprinkles upon the characters making them fall in love during the moonlight creates even more chaos between the characters. It starts off with Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius. When Lysander confirms his love for Helena, so does Demetrius. But Helena always loved Demetrius and he has never given her the time of day before and is now all of a sudden all for her, so Helena doesn’t believe it, she believes that they are inessentially playing a joke on her. The moon represents these characters because this happen at night and with the darkness of the moon bringing upon the chaos between the characters the beauty of the light brings upon the love that is being chambered within the …show more content…
With the moon playing a huge role representing love and chaos expresses the comedy, desire, and beauty within this story. Theseus and Hippolyta way in at the end, expressing the whole craziness with the love of the characters by saying “…all the story of the night told over, and all their minds transfigured so together, more witnesseth than fancy’s images and grows to something to great constancy; but, howsoever, strange and admirable”(5.1 24-27). Theseus and Hippolyta finally conclude in an expression that the night also representing the moon left the characters with such chaos and strange amount of events, but in the end the love took away with the story leaving this story with not only a beautiful metaphor represented by the moon, but leaving the audience with a story of controversy with mixed emotions and feelings towards our characters that left the story with so much more meaning than another romance