midsummer nights fream

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses the green world and its inhabitants as a symbol of imagination. The characters flee from reality to escape the laws that govern everyday life in Athens. The importance of imagination reveals itself when the constraints of everyday life are lost in this realm. The fact that actors fall asleep multiple times reinforces Shakespeare’s allusion to an escape from reality. Fairies playfully create a magical scene creating …

…escape into heaven or hell, and therefore are one’s most divine quality. Shakespeare portrays this to his audience by allowing the forest to represent the human ability to escape from the coldness of the world into the warmth and majesty of dreams. The ability of imagination is responsible for tricking people and leading one into tricking one’s self. When imagination is recognized, monotony is lost and one’s mind is brought to life.