Prompt One: During A Midsummer’s Night Dream, a play occurs during two of the characters’, Hippolyta and Theseus, wedding. While the play occurs, Theseus supports the ‘bad’ actors, saying that the audience should give them praise for at least trying. This relates to what Shakespeare wants during his play, respect for the actors. Shakespeare is saying that no matter the performance or lack of talent that the actors convey, the audience should respect them and everything they are doing. He wants the theater to be a place of respect and encouragement.…
Define “ tragedy,” Comedy,” and “romance” in the literary sense of the words. Explain into what category or caregonist Midsummer Night’s Dream falls and why? - People think of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as light-hearted and funny, full of amusing fairy high jinks, enchantments, and moonlight romance. And indeed, fairies cavort, dance and sing throughout the play and cast magic spells on young lovers forcing them to roam about aimlessly and to engage in absurd antics. Intro paragraph: Theseus , Duke of Athens, is about to marry Hippolyta,Egeus brings his daughter Hermia to court, she and Lysander want to get married, but Egeus wants her to marry Demetrius, who also wants her .…
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play packed with mischief and mayhem. It is often referred to by modern-day scholars as the Elizabethan Inception, as there are multiple examples of “play within a play” devices, each embodying several themes and concepts. Among these are examples of the contrast of tragedy and comedy, the dynamics of the written and spoken word, and imagination vs. reality.…
In the poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, Anne Bradstreet examines the values of love in all its rarity, which John is lucky enough to have found with Elizabeth in The Crucible; Bradstreet believes one partner will always feel as if their love is less than that of the others and two people should continue to pursue a life full of love if it’s found, which differentiates with the views that of Abigail because she believes John’s love is as strong as hers for him but in reality it isn’t, therefore John doesn’t want to purse her for love. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” is similar to Act One of The Crucible because both texts reveal that love should be valued since it is hard to find and is a rare treasure; one should be grateful for such a gift. In “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, the wife cherishes the lover her and her husband share. She values that…
In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of the female leads, Hermia, shows that she is no fool. She is bold, and always stayed true to her love Lysander. She shows that she is willing to fight for love. Hermia doesn't want to marry, the person who her father wanted her to marry, Demetrius since she is in love with another man, Lysander. She chooses to openly obey him and to elope with him, even though she knows it is risky.…
Hermia and Lysander faced many hardships to be together. “Upon that day either prepare to die for disobedience to your father’s will, or else to wed Demetrius, as he would, or on Diana’s altar to protest for aye austerity and single life” (I. i 85-90. 13). Egeus demanded that his daughter Hermia marry a man she does not love. He wanted Theseus to punish Hermia if she didn’t comply with the demands. She had to marry Demetrius or be sent off to the convent.…
She contemplates “he spend more time and money on me in six weeks than all the men I’ve known put together. Why doesn’t that thrill me?” (p.144) Meanwhile she’s desperately waiting for Russell to leave his wife for her because he is her ideal man. Terry McMillan chooses to express Robin as an open book, in the sense that she is very promiscuous and sexually open which is uncommon for this time in history.…
Helena says this quote to state the fact that she is in love with Demetrius and does not want him to love Hermia. Even though Hermia trusts Helena to keep her secret, Helena decides to take advantage of it. She wants to tell the secret to Demetrius, so that he can be in love with her. This is an example of soliloquy because the character’s thoughts tend to give the reader a deeper perspective of the character: Helena.…
Over the past few weeks we have been reading and watching Shakespeare's Midsummer Night’s Dream. Throughout the entire story love has been a huge part of the plot, but what is Shakespeare trying to say about love? Is it a carefree, amazing thing? Or is it complicated and annoying? In my opinion, Shakespeare has made it clear that love is very complicated.…
“ Believe that fate is the optimal combination of choice and chance” (Cindy Hilsheimer) This means that fate happens because of your choice and the chance you have. Not only do your choices affect you they also affect others. In A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare the king of the fairies makes a decision to put his wife under a spell. In the process, he accidentally puts the spell on 2 other people who are in love and that leads to a break up, because of his choice he altered other people's fate.…
In lines 5-10 the author uses metaphoric images to explain his experience with love. For an example he says “ The mouse which once hath broken out of trap Is seldom ‘ticed’ with the truthless bait,” This shows that the girl lead him to fall in love with lies she told him that he believed.…
Shakespeare wrote this play about dreams that were forgotten or put off. The significance be of the word “Dream” in the title is by that, the readers could guess that the story is going to be unrealistic like a dream. And also the theme is important because they are related to the bizarre, magical events in the forest and the theme shows much of the characters’ happiness and depression directly throughout the play. At the end of the play, the characters realized that the dream of a house was the most important dream because it united the family. Many characters have mentioned dreams throughout the play.…
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream portrays the theme of gender roles throughout the play. Shakespeare’s plays were written during an era where in society women had little will and choice of their own, and they were frequently subservient to men. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare dramatizes gender tensions that arise from complicated familial and romantic relationships. In comparison, the 2005 BBC film adaptation by Peter Bowker expresses dissimilar treatment towards women and discontinues to demonstrate patriarchal relationships, specifically through the characters, Hippolyta and Helena.…
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is filled with details up to reader interpretation from hypothetical curtain open, to curtain close. If the title of the play did not give it away, dreams are obviously at the forefront of these interpretations. Shakespeare’s play is a story of dreams and magic versus the harsh reality of love and real life. It follows, primarily, a few different groups of characters: there are four young lovers (Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, and Lysander) who form a convoluted sort of love-quadrilateral, if you will (initially, Hermia and Lysander are in love while Helena loves Demetrius but Demetrius loves Hermia); there is a company of amateur and unprofessional actors, most importantly a weaver named Nick Bottom,…
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM’S FEMALE CHARACTERS In William Shakespeare 's play ‘A Midsummer Night 's Dream, ' women in the society are depicted to possess some limitations that limit their being while others are depicted to possess strengths that make them achieve in life. The world around which women live is full of limiting factors, factors that hinder the full expression of women’s interests. Examples of these situations are when Hermia’s father wanted to marry her to a person she did not love and when Titania gets to disagree with Oberon concerning the young Indian prince. However, women are strong enough to fight through the challenges and succeed.…