Tragedy in a Comedy: A Life Without Love is No Life at All
Themes in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"Love is general and complex, an idiom of life. It transforms us. We are but children and fools, vulnerable to the arrows of Cupid, who mercilessly shoots, almost blindly; and, in a whir of golden dust, we stumble about grasping for the truth. It is like a baited hook--a white light; we are drawn to it, inexplicably or irrationally, only to come to an end foreseen by all but those involved in the imbalance of perception. Out of imbalance, conflicts arise, and William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream illustrates these conflicts with a touch of humour and light-heartedness, though the subject is quite serious.