Millions of books have been written throughout history. It surprises no one that some stories resemble others. Especially when both stories were written by the same author. This is the case of Romeo and Juliet and A Midnight Summer Dream, both written by the ingenious William Shakespeare. Mr. Shakespeare had an interest in mythology and its characters, so many of his stories involved a character from those mythical tales. Some similarities between the two texts include a pair of lovers who want to be together but cannot, a character from the mythical stories written by Homer, and a father's willingness to disown or even kill his daughter because she disobeyed him. The first similarity between Romeo and Juliet and the incredible Midnight Summer Dream is that young people want to be together because of love but can't because of complications. In Romeo and Juliet, they cannot be together because their parents are mortal enemies of each other, albeit for no reason. Another reason why Romeo and Juliet could not be together was because Juliet was to be married to another man, shortly after her marriage to the attractive Romeo. This did not present the problem that they could not be together in marriage but in physical presence. She obviously couldn't be seen in public with another man, especially her hated enemy. In Midnight Summer Dream Hermia and Lysander cannot be together because Hermia's father expressly forbids it, and places her with Demetrius, another man. Aegeus, Hermia's father in Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 26-29, “Come forward, Demetrius. My noble lord, this man has my consent to marry her. Come forward, Lysander; and, my gracious duke, this man has bewitched my son's breast. Here Egeo is saying how... in the middle of the paper... the situation was almost identical in the cases of both stories. As previously mentioned, stories can often be similar to each other in many ways. Especially when both stories have the same author who may have had the same inspiration and take shape in two texts. William Shakespeare gave us two fables both containing three very similar plot points. One of them is young love which has difficulty being accepted and recognized in the minds of older generations. Another is the use of previous characters in other writings as if they were his own, but with their own devices and stories. The last is the parents' reaction to disobedience in previous eras. Even though they were probably hundreds of years apart in the historical timeline of the settings, the reactions were more or less the same. All of this goes to show that while two stories may be very different, there are definitely some similarities between the two.