| themes | friendship, jealousy, love, self-acceptance, honesty |
| themes: friendship + love | its not always easy but if you fight for it it works out in the end |
| themes: self-acceptance | don’t always compare yourself to others, think of your good qualities not your bad |
| themes: honesty | truth best sold at beginning, truth hurts but lies hurt more |
| symbols | puck, love juice, eyes, night, forest, Athens city, worker’s play, fight between lovers, Hermia’s father |
| symbols: puck | mischief |
| symbols: eyes | truth |
| symbols: night | mischief |
| symbols: forest | things go wrong |
| symbols: Athens city | laws |
| symbols: worker’s play | comic relief, melodramatic Athenians |
| symbols: fight between lovers | seriousness |
| symbols: Hermia’s father | controlling males |
| conflict | hermia vs. helena, hermia vs. hermia, theseus vs. theseus, demetrius vs. lysander, egeus vs. hermia |
| conflict: hermia vs. helena | external, person vs. person, helena hates hermia because she thinks hermia thinks she is better than helena |
| conflict: hermia vs. hermia | internal person vs. self, hermia deciding whether to marry demetrius or be forced into nunnery/exile |
| conflict: theseus vs. theseus | internal person vs. self, theseus deciding whether to take Egeus or Helena’s side |
| conflict: demetrius vs. lysander | external person vs. person, both of them love hermia then both of them love helena |
| conflict: egeus vs. hermia | external person vs. person, different opinions on who hermia should marry |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Symbols, Themes, Alike and Different Characters
July 28, 2019