What Is The Central Theme Of Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream?
William Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was one of his most successful plays. The major attraction behind this plot was the unusual element of magic that was never part of any previous plays of Shakespeare. The main characters of the plot were Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander were in love while Helena was Hermia’s best friend. She was in love with Demetrius to whom Hermia’s father was planning her (Hermia’s) marriage with. Demetrius, who was in love with Hermia is very keen to marry her but is heartbroken when Hermia and Lysander run away. Helena, in the hope to get Demetrius to love her, decides to help him and thus she tells him where Hermia and Lysander went. Besides these main characters, there are some other character roles, which include the King of the Elves Oberon and his wife, the Queen of the fairies Titania and Oberon’s main elf Puck. Weaving a story including all these characters, Shakespeare has carved out a delectable and entertaining
