A Midsummer Night’s Dream has a romantic theme.

How does the attitude toward love develop or change over the course of the play?

A. The play begins by focusing on love’s problems, but ends by focusing on the joy true love brings.

B. The play begins by focusing on the joy of love, but becomes less hopeful as the lovers face many obstacles.

C. The play begins in the real world of Athens where love is not important, but the characters find love in the dreamlike world of the forest, demonstrating that love is only an ideal.

D. The play starts by calling lovers "madmen," but by the end the characters say that while the world is crazy, love is sane.