Theme Analysis In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare shows many different kinds of love and marriage. There is the mature love of Theseus and Hippolyta; the more frantic, passionate and unstable love of the young people; and the power struggle between Oberon and Titania. The emphasis is both on the value of love and its strange, irrational aberrations, particularly those associated with the excesses and sudden u-turns of romantic love. The Pyramus and Thisbe play-within-the-play …showed first 75 words of 552 total…

…showed last 75 words of 552 total…cannot be understood by the rational mind. And it is Oberon and the fairies, not Theseus and his court, who have the last word, as they come into the palace at the end of the play to bless the inhabitants. In addition to reason and imagination, there are many other contrasts in this carefully structured play, such as day / night; light / dark; wood / city; fairy / mortal; dream / waking; appearance / reality; madness / sanity; and love / law.