A Midsummer Night’s Dream is read worldwide. Everyone has their own opinion and reaction to this play. What I have found out from researching several different opinions is that a lot of it has to do with generations along with if one takes the play literally, symbolically, or metaphorically. Each person finds different themes in the play. Also, depending on what generation one was born in has an effect on how one reacts to the play. There are several different critics out there that think their analysis is the right one, however there are a variety of opinions about A Midsummer Night’s Dream. For example, the majority of my generation look at this play, along with other Shakespearian plays, in a completely different way than older generations. We are young and have evolved from that Old English era. A lot of my generation would say that it is boring and hard to comprehend. Once I understood the play I really liked it. However after reading other peoples analysis and opinions on the play I realized that I was not getting as much out of it as older generations were. I do not see the comedy of this play as much as others do, and I look at it too literal and miss those symbolical and metaphorical aspects. For example I completely missed this meaning Ismail Wali puts in his article about the play when I had read it. “Woelffel, a contemporary of Gernivus, draws our attention to the psychological differences between Lysander and Demetrius. The same love-juice has opposite effects on the two characters, rendering Lysander unfaithful and Demetrius faithful.” When I had read the play I did not put this much thought into it. I did not think about Lysander being unfaithful and Demetrius being faithful. However, I can agree with what Wali and Woelffel are saying about the psychological differences between Lysander and Demetrius. Wali also stated in his article that each newer generation is not getting as much out of Shakespeare as the old