7.

Speak on the major themes in ROMEO AND JULIET and A

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM:
Love and marriage
Romeo and Juliet
https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/romeo-and-
juliet/themes/marriage
https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/themes/
The romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet contains many different types of romantic
love and marriage. The examples of romantic love contained in this play are
chivalric, dynastic, infatuation and true love. The types of marriage are passionate
and impulsive and arranged and forced. These types of love and marriage are quite
different from modern ideas. Courtly and dynastic loves occur infrequently,
although there are still couples who are smitten with each other and in true love.
Passionate, impulsive or arranged marriages are uncommon, in favour of well
planned, thought out marriages, between people who really love each other.
A midsummer night’s dream
Love is a central topic in the play. Nearly every protagonist is somehow in love but some of them are
happily in love and some of them are not. The best example for a very unhappy love is maybe
Helena, who has been left from Demetrius, the love of her life, because he preferred the beauty of
Helena’s best friend Hermia. Now Helena is really unhappy, desperate and also somehow jealous.
What ever she does, Demetrius does not recognize her because he is fixed on Hermia’s beauty. And,
much worse, he seems to love Hermia although she despises him all the time:

Friendship
Romeo and Juliet
https://www.ipl.org/essay/Friendship-In-Romeo-And-Juliet-PCQFXSNNAG

The best friendships to have are those that help you develop your emotions towards
yourself and others. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, the disposition of
two significant characters are evidently displayed to demonstrate the true qualities of
friendship. Firstly, Romeo’s cousin and friend, Benvolio demonstrates that he
surpasses Mercutio as a friend because he comforts Romeo in his times of need.
Secondly, Benvolio shows that he is capable of defending Romeo, making him the
preferable friend. Lastly, Benvolio spends more valuable time with Romeo, assisting
in his despairs.
A midsummer night’s dream
Friendship and loyalty in a midsummer nights dream by William shakespear is
important in this story because it has to do with a love triangle between 4 friends
and its dealing with all their feelings with who wants who. Friendship and loyalty
was mostly demonstrated between Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia and Helena in the
story. A mid summer night’s dream there is love and jealousy and staying true to
each other as friends or as lovers in many different ways in the story and no matter
what, loyalty is always important in a friendship or in a relationship.
Illusion Vs. Reality
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet's story portrays many various themes. Shakespeare's portray is a poetry that
follows a simple pattern. Illusion vs. reality is one the themes that are presented throughout the
play. It represents things that are not always what they thought to be. It is something that could
materialize another thing, while it is different in reality. The Illusion vs. reality appearsthrough
Romeo and Juliet secret marriage, while everybody in the community thought that they’re both
unmarried. When Juliet discovered about the death of Tybalt’s and Romeo’s exile she felt
depressed. The disappearing of her husband (Romeo) makes her feel confused about her
husband’s fate. Juliet’s parents thought that her depression and sorrow caused the death of her
cousin Tybalt, and thought that she is grieving when they see her crying. However, in reality, the
disappearance of her husband is the cause of her depression and sorrow.
A midsummer night’s dream
The world of A Midsummer Night's Dream is no doubt magical. Our characters move swiftly
between illusion and reality, sometimes without even realizing it. The story takes place in three
different settings: Athens, the forest, and the story-within-a-story setting of Babylon. The latter
two settings blur the line between what is real and what is fantasy in several ways. Let's take a
look at the effects.

Fiction in a Fiction
The irony of discussing the reality of A Midsummer Night's Dream is that the play is fictional. It
has realistic elements, but at the end of the day, the story and its characters are imaginary. It's
only real because it's a text that we can read.
Once the story reaches the forest, however, it begins to lose even some of those realistic
elements. The play gains a supernatural element as we meet the fairies, and the humans begin to
interact in their world. As the story moves from realism to fantasy, it becomes more of an
illusion.
Within this play, our characters are then the audience for a play-within-a-play about Pyramus
and Thisbe. We seem to agree with the characters, then, that while the reality of the primary
story of A Midsummer Night's Dream is negotiable, the story of Pyramus and Thisbe is
absolutely fiction.
If we, as the audience, are expected to suspend disbelief long enough to believe the actors
performing Shakespeare are real people, then we must go even further into the illusion to believe
that Pyramus and Thisbe are also real.

Dreams and imagination

Romeo and Juliet
https://kellybulkeley.org/dreams-and-shakespeare-romeo-and-juliet/
A midsummer night’s dream
Light and Darkness
Romeo and Juliet
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/subjects/literature/how-does-
shakespeare-use-light-and-darkness-in-romeo-and-juliet
A midsummer night’s dream
Destiny
Romeo and Juliet
A midsummer night’s dream
Time
Romeo and Juliet
A midsummer night’s dream