Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was a groundbreaking play, which expressed an array of themes in a light-hearted, comedic setting. The main theme Shakespeare conveys in this play is the difficulty of love. He conveys this idea of love’s difficulty through the use of comedy and make-believe creatures. This essay will explore that theme, providing evidence of why I believe that it is, in fact, the overriding theme of this play. The theme was not only portrayed in the text; rather, to truly portray the theme, Shakespeare used many comedic styles and techniques, such as: comedy of errors, farce, a play within a play, and contrast.
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream had three main themes: loves difficulty, dreams, and magic. Although …show more content…
Soon Puck is instructed by Oberon to fix the mess that he caused. Once again by using magic, Puck made everyone fall in love with the correct people–Lysander with Hermia and Demetrius with Helena. As you can see, magic is a supporting beam with regards to loves difficulty. We see, through the help of magic, how confusing, tricky, and complicated love can be, but also how beautiful it is. Love was the reason that the Athenians ran into the forests, leading Oberon to see them, which in turn caused the chain reaction of hilarious events. Love also caused a conflict between Oberon and his queen, Titania. This conflict led to another series of events that also gives evidence of the possible difficulties that can arise due to love, this phenomenon is known as a comedy of error. A comedy of errors is when there is a sequence of ridiculous events that add to the humor of the situation. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there are events that occur in the play that complicate the plot while still adding to its humor. There are many cases where a person will work so hard to make a relationship work, or to get another person to love them, but the problem is that the other individual might not feel the same way, or might
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream had three main themes: loves difficulty, dreams, and magic. Although …show more content…
Soon Puck is instructed by Oberon to fix the mess that he caused. Once again by using magic, Puck made everyone fall in love with the correct people–Lysander with Hermia and Demetrius with Helena. As you can see, magic is a supporting beam with regards to loves difficulty. We see, through the help of magic, how confusing, tricky, and complicated love can be, but also how beautiful it is. Love was the reason that the Athenians ran into the forests, leading Oberon to see them, which in turn caused the chain reaction of hilarious events. Love also caused a conflict between Oberon and his queen, Titania. This conflict led to another series of events that also gives evidence of the possible difficulties that can arise due to love, this phenomenon is known as a comedy of error. A comedy of errors is when there is a sequence of ridiculous events that add to the humor of the situation. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there are events that occur in the play that complicate the plot while still adding to its humor. There are many cases where a person will work so hard to make a relationship work, or to get another person to love them, but the problem is that the other individual might not feel the same way, or might