1. After going through the play, my initial expression was that it was full of conflicts. There are a lot of quarrels between the lovers. Hermia and Lysander even ran off to the woods with the hope of starting a future life together. Here there is a presentation of a great personal versus society conflict that would see Hermia executed if she didn’t marry Demetrius as her father wanted.
2. The genre of the selection A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy play. This is because it involves all features of a comedy. It is light and has a humorous tone, has a clever dialogue of a witty nature and it has multiple plots with several twists and turns. The story revolves around four Athenian lovers and some amateur actors who are often controlled and maneuvered by fairies.
3. Exposition; Athens, Greece is where the play is set. The play has love, prosperity, rebellion and anxiousness in it. The noble and wealthy Theseus and Hippolyta prepare for their …show more content…
Examples of figurative languages used in the play are;
Personification- this is the use of language to give non human things human characteristics. In act 1, the author writes, “Love looks not with eyes but with the mind and therefore is wing’d Cupid blind”. He sees love in this phrase as a unit of action and implies that love can see.
Imagery- this refers to the scenario where the author twists language to create pictures in the readers’ minds. For example, “whilst the heavy ploughman snores, all with weary task fordone…now it is the time of the night that the graves all gaping wide, everyone lets forth his sprite, in the church-way paths to glide”. In this statement, a puck is describing the night.
Similes- for example, “and then the moon like a silver bow New-bent in heaven”. It is comparing the shining of the moon to silver.
Metaphor- for example, “ call you me fair? That fair against unsay. Demetrius loves you fair! Your eyes are lodestars.”. Here Helena is comparing Hermia’s eyes to lode –stars without using
2. The genre of the selection A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy play. This is because it involves all features of a comedy. It is light and has a humorous tone, has a clever dialogue of a witty nature and it has multiple plots with several twists and turns. The story revolves around four Athenian lovers and some amateur actors who are often controlled and maneuvered by fairies.
3. Exposition; Athens, Greece is where the play is set. The play has love, prosperity, rebellion and anxiousness in it. The noble and wealthy Theseus and Hippolyta prepare for their …show more content…
Examples of figurative languages used in the play are;
Personification- this is the use of language to give non human things human characteristics. In act 1, the author writes, “Love looks not with eyes but with the mind and therefore is wing’d Cupid blind”. He sees love in this phrase as a unit of action and implies that love can see.
Imagery- this refers to the scenario where the author twists language to create pictures in the readers’ minds. For example, “whilst the heavy ploughman snores, all with weary task fordone…now it is the time of the night that the graves all gaping wide, everyone lets forth his sprite, in the church-way paths to glide”. In this statement, a puck is describing the night.
Similes- for example, “and then the moon like a silver bow New-bent in heaven”. It is comparing the shining of the moon to silver.
Metaphor- for example, “ call you me fair? That fair against unsay. Demetrius loves you fair! Your eyes are lodestars.”. Here Helena is comparing Hermia’s eyes to lode –stars without using