How does the play use sleep and dream as a central theme?
What will be an ideal response?
- In sleep our fantasy perceives the wider truths of human experience—both dark and transcendent— denied to it when we are awake. However, the night’s accidents befalling the lovers are not the “fierce vexation of a dream” (IV.i.60). The fierce passions unleashed by the love juice are endured and safely subdued. The murderous jealousy that erupts into dangerous swordplay is disarmed by Oberon and Puck. The rivalry that threatened the “double cherry on one stem” of Hermia and Helena’s girlhood friendship is banished with the dawn that sees them sleeping side by side in the woods. Titania is disabused of her folly with no apparent injury to her dignity. Bottom is restored to his friends trailing clouds of glory (“a most rare vision” [IV.i.191–203]) with no lasting resentment of class differences that would bar him from the bed of a mortal queen. He takes the gift of transitory joy as his due. Indeed, he addresses Theseus as an equal when he breaks character to correct the Duke’s apparent confusion over the role of Wall (V.i.178–180). Of the lovers’ seeming “dream and fruitless vision,” the lasting fruit will be unions “whose date till death shall never end” (III.2.371–373). Midsummer folly exorcises and dispels the potential dangers of excessive passion.
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