A Midsummer Night’s Dream Have you ever asked yourself whether A Midsummer Night’s Dream is taking placing in an actual dream? To clarify, a dream is a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep. Reality is the state or quality of having existence or substance. The play shows a lot of symbolism of dreaming which made me believe that A Midsummer Night’s Dream was all a dream because Bottom remembers a dream he had the previous night, and Lysander Falls in love with Hermia and abandons Helena. When Bottom awakens, he remembers having a dream. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Bottom exclaims, “I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass to expound this dream” (Shakespeare 36). This tells us that Bottom is recalling a dream with events that happened before in the play such as having a vision of having an ass for a head. As a rule, a dream is just a series of thoughts and images inside your head, it cannot be an event that happened in real life. …show more content…
According to the play, Lysander Exclaims, “Transparent Helena! Nature shows art, that though thy bosom makes me thy heart. Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word is that vile name to perish on my sword.” (Shakespeare, 19) This shows us that Lysander randomly falls in love with Helena, a woman that he had no interest in the past. He begins to show love gestures to Helena and threatens to get rid of Demetrius. This seems odd because if a man runs away with a woman that he “truly” loves, he wouldn’t just fall in love with another woman. An event like this would most likely happen in a dream than in