In the play Midsummers Nights Dream, the director conveyed many different meanings in the play and there were many that stood out to me that night. One of the main concepts I captured from the play was the significance of love. All characters in the play are lively, careless and thoughtless, especially the character Puck, one of the dominant characters in the play. Through the assistance of imaginary elements as well as characters Puck and Oberon, the true message of love in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is revealed. Puck is significant to the plot, tone, and meaning of A Midsummer Nights Dream. He of course becomes a characteristic of the theme of love in the play. He has the ability to a higher power to control what and whom humans will fall in love with. By capturing this theme, the director shows the couples in the woods and how they appear in their bare undergarments and how they deeply love one another. Puck plays a love trick on all of them to confuse one another and play mind tricks. "Though she be little, she is fierce” is what I think of when I image their arguments with each other. But at the end of the play it shows them waking up from their horrible encounter that night, they seem to be ashamed with what they are wearing the next morning and try to cover themselves. This reminds me of the beginning of the bible with Adam and Eve, how they felt sinful and naked. The …show more content…
Throughout the play scenes, characters are falling asleep, waking up and imagining the unreal and being in a dreamlike state. Also reality and appearance is demonstrated through the part where there is a play within a play. Us the audience know that this play is not real. We know that really a boy is not a woman. Also we know the man is not a lion yet we still watch believing the stupidity of it and laugh at the