A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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   Each couple represents something (is symbolic).  Titania and Oberon represent the power of the fairy world and how our dreams can mesh with reality.  Hippolyta and Theseus represent the law and government of the "real" world, the mortal world.  They remind us there are rules and that reality, does in fact, yield to dreams sometimes.  The four young lovers represent the instability and inconstancy of love.  Because they are all meshed together at one point and switched around, etc. (it is chaotic!), this is indicative of how love is crazy, at times, and chaotic, confusing, and inconstant.  Pyramus and Thisbe, the play within a play characters, are indicative of what love should NOT come to...death.  It teaches the lovers a lesson...that love is precious and that external forces shouldn't keep true love apart.  If so, there are dire consequences sometimes.

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   Posted by kwoo1213 on Wednesday July 9, 2008 at 1:56 PM
   
   

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