The foolishness of love is represented with the inconsistency of characters after Puck's prank. Henry Myers observes that nonsense is displayed in the play primarily by the Athenian lovers, their world being one "governed by a law which is the exact opposite of the law if identity" (Myers 164). He explains that in a world of sense, A is A, b

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a successful play because it mocks the foolishness of love without being offensive. Shakespeare uses characters and situations in a way that make us laugh at the play as well as laugh at ourselves. The contrasting worlds of the fairies and the mortals add to the mystical mood of the play, heightening the comedy. Puck and his antics provide more than enough reasons for us the laugh but, in the end, they actually emphasize what fools the mortals can be.

Humor and irony help drive the plot of the play. G. K. Hunter notes that A Midsummer Night's Dream "reduces the passions to a comic level where we do not feel called upon to share them; but it remains poetic and charming" (Hunter 94). Puck and the mysterious realm of the forest help this become possible for us. We believe in the magic because we want to believe. When Puck says, "Cupid is a knavish lad,/Thus to make poor

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