Shakespeare’s lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night are lunatics. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the moon is the guiding force of madness in the play which influences the chaotic nature and lunacy of the characters. The moon seems to preside over the entire play and is a symbol of change. Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, are one example of lunatic lovers that parallel the theme …showed first 75 words of 1877 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1877 total…characters in the play are the Fool’s entertainment, and he enjoys watching the lunatic lovers. In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare shows how silly people can really be and through the Fool’s perspective we can observe the madness of the love affairs and the vagaries of sexual attraction in the play. In conclusion, the lovers in both A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night are lunatics and show that love is blind to reason.