While I would not afford much to faith into Egeuses concepts of love, Theseus and Demetrius seem to conform to his standards of marriage, which is based not on true love, but merely manly materialism and social status. ... In the end as nature would have it, true love dominates false pretenses. ... Through the "healing" power of dreams, identity transformations occur, not once, but many times throughout the play, first, with Theseus and Hippolyta, then within the "love square" when all of them "dream away" their confused love for one another. ... Naturally, true love outweighed material...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate