Fools in Midsummer Night Dream
The literary tool known as mirroring helps to emphasize a particular point or idea by repeating it throughout the text. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare mirrors the element of foolishness to bring together three very different worlds; the romantic world of the aristocratic lovers, the workday world of the tradesmen, and the fairy world of Titania and Oberon. As result, Shakespeare creates a world of silly people acting in nonsensical …
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…creates a commonality between them and draws the characters into a greater world, a world of "lovers and madmen (who) have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.” (A5, S1 L4-6) It is such foolishness that A Midsummer Night’s Dream is all about, as it is a play so absurd and full of discord that it could have very well be just a dream.
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