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Amidsummersnight dream

In the romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, one of the most reoccurring themes throughout the play is love. In the play, Shakespeare expresses the difficulty, and instability of love, whether it is passionate, sensible, or reasonable using a comical twist. Throughout the play, the theme of love is illustrated often and basically everything that is said and done is related to the concept of love. Although the ideal of true love seems to be held by most people, false love is revealed within the writings of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as Shakespeare intended, shows that the nature of love can be blindly followed which leads to actions that are regretted, or it preservers leading to the true love being searched. Underneath his frantic comedy, Shakespeare seems to be asking questions to his audiences who at one time or another in the midst of their own confusion concerning love have asked themselves: What is true love? Ho...

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