Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is such a comedy story:

A man named Lysander and a man named Demetrius fell in love with a woman named Hermia at the same time. A woman named Helena is a good friend of a woman named Lysander. She secretly loves a man named Hermia. Hermia and Lysander are soul mates. She refused to obey her father's orders to marry Demetrius, so she and Lysander secretly fled to the forest.

After Helena told Demetrius the news, he rushed to the forest to chase Hermia. The spoony Helena followed Demetrius to the forest. The forest on midsummer night is very lively. In order to add fun to the upcoming Duke of Athens wedding, a group of actors have just rehearsed in this forest.

There are still many lovely elves living in the forest, and the fairy king and queen are at odds. In order to play tricks on the fairy queen, the fairy king ordered an elf named Parker to pick a flower juice and drop it in her eyes. When she woke up, the fairy queen fell madly in love with the first person she saw when she opened her eyes-an actor wearing a donkey's head.

Wang Xian accidentally learned that Helena loved Demetrius, so he ordered Parker to drop some flower juice into Demetrius' eyes, but careless Parker mistook Lysander for Demetrius. As a result, Lysander woke up and saw Helena, so he continued to pursue her and forgot Hermia. After the fairy king found out.

Quickly drop the flower juice into the sleeping eyes of Demetrius. Demetrius woke up and saw Helena being chased by Lysander, so they made love to Helena in a hurry ... so they mistakenly loved Hermia and turned to Helena.

Finally, the fairy king lifted everyone's magic with grass juice, and everyone got their place and was happy.

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Theme of the work

Looking back on the whole play A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's profound insight into human nature is like a solemn and strange building slowly emerging. In the real society threatened by imitation desire, everyone thinks that their desire is real and that others deliberately embarrass themselves, so people compete unnecessarily, resulting in a real crisis that is difficult to resolve.

Therefore, Shakespeare built a magical midsummer night forest to let people who suffered from imitation enter it and see the truth of human nature. In the dream, people finally realize the real existence of imitation desire, and begin to realize that all the mythical colors given to the object of desire are just the projection of imitation desire.

The desire to imitate is illusory. In the final analysis, in the real world, people abuse each other and even fight with each other for the object of desire, not because of the scarcity of the object of desire, nor because of the lofty value of the object of desire, but because everyone always imitates each other's desires, because everyone is the subject and object of each other, because everyone hates himself and avoids each other's existence.

When people can clearly realize the illusion of imitating desire, face up to themselves and accept themselves, they can transcend the following comparison, jealousy, vanity and even competition, accept the object of desire truthfully, and return to the real world, live and work in peace and contentment, return to their origins, and be happy.

Baidu Encyclopedia-A Midsummer Night's Dream