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    The main ideas and themes in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" include love's difficulty, magic, dreams, jealousy, mischief, and transformation. Love's difficulty, shown through the asymmetrical love between Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius, is the primary theme. Magic brings humor and fantasy to the play, as the fairy Puck causes mischief and transformations through magic. Dreams, jealousy, and transformations further complicate the relationships between the lovers in humorous ways, ultimately resolved through magic.

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    The main ideas and themes in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" include love's difficulty, magic, dreams, jealousy, mischief, and transformation. Love's difficulty, shown through the asymmetrical love between Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius, is the primary theme. Magic brings humor and fantasy to the play, as the fairy Puck causes mischief and transformations through magic. Dreams, jealousy, and transformations further complicate the relationships between the lovers in humorous ways, ultimately resolved through magic.

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    The main ideas and themes in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" include love's difficulty, magic, dreams, jealousy, mischief, and transformation. Love's difficulty, shown through the asymmetrical love between Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius, is the primary theme. Magic brings humor and fantasy to the play, as the fairy Puck causes mischief and transformations through magic. Dreams, jealousy, and transformations further complicate the relationships between the lovers in humorous ways, ultimately resolved through magic.

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    The main ideas and themes in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" include love's difficulty, magic, dreams, jealousy, mischief, and transformation. Love's difficulty, shown through the asymmetrical love between Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius, is the primary theme. Magic brings humor and fantasy to the play, as the fairy Puck causes mischief and transformations through magic. Dreams, jealousy, and transformations further complicate the relationships between the lovers in humorous ways, ultimately resolved through magic.

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    Main ideas and themes in “A Midsummer night’s dream”

    There are some main ideas in the play, like “Love’s difficulty”, “Magic”, “Dreams”,
    “Jealousy”, “Mischief”, “Transformation” and others.
    The “Love’s difficulty” theme is the main of them, because “The course of true love
    never did run smooth,” comments Lysander in the play. In the text of “A Midsummer
    night’s dream” is written/told of the asymmetrical love among the young: Hermia
    loves Lysander, Lysander loves Hermia, Helena loves Demetrius, and Demetrius
    loves Hermia instead of Helena.
    The “Magic” theme is that which brings funny and hilarious atmosphere in the
    play. It is also center of the fantastic atmosphere in “A Midsummer night’s
    dream”. Shakespeare uses magic to highlight the supernatural power of love.
    As the tittle says, the “Dreams” theme is important in the play. The characters
    also use dreaming to explain a bizarre situation in which they are involved.
    The theme of “Jealousy” operates in both human and magic world. It is obviously
    seen most among the quarter of Athenian lovers – Helena feels jealous of Hermia,
    who has two lovers, and Demetrius feels jealous of Lysander.
    The “Mischief” theme is primarily associated with the forest and the fairies who
    live there. According to the traditional British folklore, fairies are master mischief
    makers. The fairy Puck is the play’s main maker of mischief.
    Most of the examples in the “Transformation” theme are related to emotional
    and physical transformations. These transformations add humorous chaos to the
    play and make its happy ending possible. Most of the transformations that are
    made in the play derive from fairy magic.
    There are still some other themes, but I got to my limits, maybe I could write
    about them next time. 😉

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