【正文】 I will move storms, I will condole in some measure. To the rest: yet my chief humor is for a tyrant. I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all spirit. (A MidSummer Night’s Dream 24)He believes and wishes that everyone takes him as seriously as he does himself. It is his selfimportance. This foolish selfimportance or selfconfidence, as a potential consciousness, paves a way for his dream. His selfimportance reaches its peak after Puck transforms his head into that of an ass. When Titania, whose eyes have been appointed with a love potion, falls in love with the now assheaded Bottom, he believes that the devotion of the beautiful, magic queen is nothing out of the ordinary and that all of the trappings of her affection including having servants attend him are his proper due. His dream es true. Nick Bottom has a superficial happy life with the queen Titania. After Oberon applies the love portion to Titania’s eyelids, she es back to reality and realizes that she has a dream in which she is in love with an assheaded man. So, Nick Bottom es back to reality, too. He can only remember that there is a beautiful woman who loves him very much and some other strange things. After Bottom wakes up he says: Methought I was,and methought I had, but man is but a patch fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was’’.(A MidSummer Night’s Dream 120) His human head is restored. He believes that his experience as an assheaded monster loved by the beautiful fairy queen is merely a dream. He remarks that this dream cannot be prehended by human. C. Dream Created by Oberon and PuckHolland states that Oberon and Puck create a situation in which the characters in the play, as well as audience, are able to see the play “as a true dream experience” not simply something like a dream. 7 Holland explains that the audience may have regarded dreams as a source of “true understanding”. At the end of play puck says: If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumber’d hereWhile these visions did appear.And this weak and idle theme,No more yielding but a dream,( A Midsummer Night’s Dream154 )As many of the character (Bottom and Theseus) believe that what they experience is just a dream, Puck tells the crowd that if the play has offended them, they should remember it simply as a dream. The speech offers a mentary on the dream like atmosphere of A Midsummer Night Dream and casts the play as a magical dream.In conclusion, Holland observes that Oberon relates dreams to visions, that Puck advices the audience that it has been visions, that Bottom views his experience as a vision. Garber notes that in the play, visions are contrasted with dreams and are regarded as correctly interpreted and valued dreams. 8 Garber maintains that the view of dreams presented in the play a “redemptive’’ one which “arises in part of a new emphasis upon transformation as a creative act.’’ Furthermore, Garber contends that the dream state, as a transforming and creative process, orders the events of the play. The contrast between sleep and wakefulness, between reality and illusion, between reason and imagination, and between the realm of Theseus and Oberon, are all “structurally related to portrayal of the dream state.” From what Garber says, dreams have the power to reveal insight and truth, and to “interpret and transform” reality. It is said that the dream in this play belongs to indicated dream. Conclusion Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. Most of Shakespeare’s works are about love and dream. It reflects people’s minds about the society and the structure of the upper class.The course of true love does not run smoothly. In this play, the four young characters pay much for their love. However, love is holy and is a deep motion in people’s inner heart. Dream is people’s potential mind though people do not realize it. In the creation of literature, dream always has a strong indication. It indicates the possible changes in the future. Notes 1. William Shakespeare, A MidSummer Night’s Dream, Black Cat Graded Readers. Ed. Chen Lin. (Shanghai: Huadong Normal University Press, 2004) 33.2. William Shakespeare, A MidSummer Night’s Dream. Trans. Zhu Shenghao. (Huhehaote:Yuanfang Publishing Press, 2005) 14. (Subsequent quotations of the same book will be intext notes with book title followed by page number or numbers in bracket.) 3. Emily Winter, “A MidSummer Night’s Dream.” ./msnd (notes 4, 6, are cited from the same article).5. 楊暉，許秀琴,“《仲夏夜之夢》中的夢的情節(jié)鋪設”戲劇文學報，2008（9）7980.7. Emma Chastain, “A MidSummer Night’s Dream.” (notes 8 is cited from the same article). BibliographyChastain, Emma. “A MidSummer Night’s Dream.” (4 June 2010).Shakespeare, William. A MidSummer Night’s Dream, Black Cat Graded Readers. Ed. Chen Lin. Shanghai: Huadong Normal University Press, 2004.—————————. A MidSummer Night’s Dream. Trans. Zhu Shenghao. 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