An Anatomy of Human Mind in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Abstract

The play A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595) shows the artistic experimentation of an anatomy of human mind. Shakespeare explores the function of human mind which the paper attempts to discuss. It seems that the different aspects of personality is projected through the characters responses toward the situation. It will throw light into the repressed desires of conscious mind which is fulfilled in the dreams of the characters using Freudian analysis of a dream. The objective of the paper is to show the function of unconscious mind and will use the lens of psychoanalytic perspective to examine a proper analysis of the play and the representation of the characters as a whole.