Midsummer Night’s Dream Control People often like to control people to get some sort of advantage and superiority over others, but that usually ends up causing complications. This is what happens throughout the whole play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. Control is something that almost every character in this play wants, but this is only short-term. When one character tries to control another, it always ends up back where it was in the beginning and doesn’t work out.
In the beginning of the play Egeus, father of Hermia wants his daughter to marry Demetrius, but Hermia wants to marry Lysander. Egeus says, “Stand forth, Demetrius.—My noble lord,/ This man hath my consent to marry her.—/ Stand forth, Lysander.—And my gracious …show more content…
Oberon, the fairy king wants to get an indian boy from Titania, the fairy queen. So, he remembers a flower struck by cupid, “Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell./ It fell upon a little western flower,” (2.1.71-72) which is called the love-in-idleness flower. The person puts the juice from the flower into someone’s eyes when they are sleeping, and when they wake up, they fall in love with the first creature they see. He decides he will do this to Titania to get her distracted and steal the Indian boy then. Even though he succeeded, the length he controlled Titania for was only temporary. Control doesn’t last forever and you can’t keep doing it your whole life.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that expresses the theme of control very well. It contains parts that are funny and parts that are not, that all relate to one person controlling another person. The end results of people controlling others is not successful because what happened was only temporary for each person. A Midsummer Night's Dream expresses controlling others doesn't usually work out the way that you thought it would have and it often results in making someone look stupid or
In the beginning of the play Egeus, father of Hermia wants his daughter to marry Demetrius, but Hermia wants to marry Lysander. Egeus says, “Stand forth, Demetrius.—My noble lord,/ This man hath my consent to marry her.—/ Stand forth, Lysander.—And my gracious …show more content…
Oberon, the fairy king wants to get an indian boy from Titania, the fairy queen. So, he remembers a flower struck by cupid, “Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell./ It fell upon a little western flower,” (2.1.71-72) which is called the love-in-idleness flower. The person puts the juice from the flower into someone’s eyes when they are sleeping, and when they wake up, they fall in love with the first creature they see. He decides he will do this to Titania to get her distracted and steal the Indian boy then. Even though he succeeded, the length he controlled Titania for was only temporary. Control doesn’t last forever and you can’t keep doing it your whole life.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that expresses the theme of control very well. It contains parts that are funny and parts that are not, that all relate to one person controlling another person. The end results of people controlling others is not successful because what happened was only temporary for each person. A Midsummer Night's Dream expresses controlling others doesn't usually work out the way that you thought it would have and it often results in making someone look stupid or