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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
love and happiness. This theme is easy for the reader to see and interpret. Love in the real world is hard to come by and keep alive in many cases. In nearly all instances where love is desired, the individual must overcome obstacles or barriers to attain this type of true love. This idea is continually stressed in this play and is found in the theme of the difficulty of finding a love that can overcome all blockades.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare is a conventional drama with many unique twists. It is five acts long and at its time was much like many of the other romantic comedies of the period in that it looked at the human emotion of love in a comedic fashion. However the play is eccentric in that it contrasts the world of reality with the world of fantasy in a dynamic manner, all the while examining the power of love and the influence of dreams on explaining the unknown. Though in our world today, fairies do not tamper with our relationships, many other real life situations and obstacles impede the path of true love and romance.