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What Are The Differing Perceptions Of Reality In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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When the reader comes to the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream , they would experience an intriguing tale that spins you on the ride of imagination. Written by William Shakespeare, the story goes through many attempts by four lovers set to be with their destined significant other. But in their efforts, each of them are experiencing different things that in reality, shouldn’t have even happened. As if it was all just them dreaming about the very events that had just unfolded. Others can support their stories, while the many people who haven’t gone through the mess believe that they’re unbelievable. Throughout this story, we can see a theme like “People have differing perceptions of reality.” is prevalent in this story as the four lovers fall …show more content…

Hermia states, “Am I not Hermia? Are not you Lysander?/I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Since night you loved me; yet since night you left me. Why then you left me…” (3.2.278-281) This has Hermia perplexed as a daze is filling her mind from the swift change over just a few hours, from absolute love to abandonment. Knowing that our theme is about how they’re differing perceptions of reality in this story, Hermia conveys and expresses that she feels that she has just switched her reality around overnight. She is confused, like it is a blur to her of what has just happened to Lysander all of the sudden. In her own reality, she believes that Lysander has just fallen out of love with her, while it is actually the fact that Lysander doesn’t even know since he’s under the effect of the …show more content…

A little later he also states “Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream.” (4.1.191-200). So, we can also observe in Demetrius’ scenario, he is in a very confused state while he still believed that it was all still a “dream” that was going on. He anticipates that each of the features before this is still going unexplained to him. Doubting himself if what he’s going through currently is actually true in addition to thinking that they were all just sleeping the whole time. Despite the fact that they have these detailed and striking recollections of what happened just sometime ago from each person. As a result, his reality to him doesn’t seem as true as he thinks it should

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