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