Midsummer's Night Dream 'A Midsummer's Night Dream is an example of one of Shakespeare's works that has survived till today. It explores the ideas of love, magic and the oppression of the laws in society. There is also magic, which was one of the beliefs at the time. 'A Midsummer's Dream' explores many human beliefs such as love and its oppression. This is appealing for many audiences as it shows the ludicrousness of human ideas and how easily they can change. It also showed how people explained mysteries and such.