FORESHADOWING · Comments made in Act I, scene i about the difficulties that lovers face
TONES · Romantic; comedic; fantastic; satirical; dreamlike; joyful; farcical
SYMBOLS · Theseus and Hippolyta represent order, stability, and wakefulness; Theseus’s hounds represent the coming of morning; Oberon’s love potion represents the power and instability of love.
THEMES · The difficulties of love; magic; the nature of dreams; the relationships between fantasy and reality and between environment and experience