Topic > The Forest Theme in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Robert Fulghum said: “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more powerful than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for the pain. And I believe that love is stronger than death." In a place where two different worlds exist, what are the contrasts between them? Everything in this world has its opposite, as shown in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. One of the important elements of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare is the antidote between the forest and the city, here he will show the perspective of the forest and the city and how the forest contrasts the city explaining the contrast states Oberon, "Then crush this herb in the eyes of Lysander, whose liquor has this virtuous property, to eliminate from there every error with its strength, and make his eyes roll with the usual sight When they wake up, all this mockery will seem like a dream and fruitless vision. And the lovers will return to Athens, with a league whose date until death will never end." (3.2) This explains how everything that happened in the forest will seem like dreams to the characters to make them think that everything was their imagination. . In Act 5, scene 1, Hippolyta states: "But all the story of the night told, and all their minds thus transfigured together, testify more than the images of fancy, and grow to be something of great constancy, but however strange and admirable,” this shows how Hippolyta thinks that since everyone says the same “dream,” this actually happened and was a reality. Dreams in the Forest is contrasted with the reality of the city because everything is based on people's imagination. One of the important elements of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare is the antidote between the forest and the city. The perspective of the forest and the city and how the forest contrasts with the city have been explained in the previous paragraphs. Explaining the contrast between female resistance, rebellion and dreams, with male dominance, authority and reality demonstrated that the forest was an antidote to