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The Moon In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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The moon represents harmony, growth, and renewal, fickleness, and inconsistency due to its changing nature. The moon is directly referenced several times throughout William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare transforms the moon into a rich symbol that unifies the play’s characters, ideas, and themes together. This idea dates back to the Elizabethan culture, which connected the moon with images of the goddess of virginity, Diana. In this play the moon appears to have magical qualities that fortify Elizabethan beliefs of mysticism and mystery. The characters in this play typically reveal their primal desires when under the mind-altering energy that the moon gives off in these selective scenes. Sex is a secondary association
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