A Midsummer Night’s Dream is written by William Shakespeare, who effectively uses comedy, fantasy, and romance to develop his theme of “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Comedy is used when Bottom’s head is transformed into one of an ass’s, Fantasy is used when presenting the relationship of Oberon and Titania and the scheming of Oberon, and Romance is repeatedly used during the scenes featuring the mortal love triangles.
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare plays with the themes of love, art, imagination, and dreaming to forge an overall meaning for his work. His play within a play, found in Act V, expands on his themes and portrays the relationship between the audience and the performers on stage (Richter, 2010, p6) …show more content…
In this scene, it is accused by Titania that her husband is jealous of the portion of her attention directed to the boy, and as a result, Oberon and his trickster fairy, Puck, begin scheming. “Act II discloses the conflict between Oberon and Titania over the “changeling” boy and his decision to punish her by playing a practical joke on her.” (Rahn, 2008, p6) For this scheme, Puck is directed to retrieve the flower of Love-in-idleness, which had been a normal pansy struck and therefore enchanted by the arrow of Cupid, a cherub of love. He successfully does so, which proves the extent of Oberon’s Jealousy and malice. The use of magic, fairies and angels are definitely devices of fantasy. “He anoints her eyes with a magic potion so she will fall in love “at first sight” with whomever or whatever she sees upon waking (ii, 33-34). (Rahn, 2008, p6) Any relationship with this amount of mischievousness certainly does not run …show more content…
“Critics classify A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a Romantic Comedy which means it deals with young people falling in love but having to overcome obstacles (usually imposed by parents) before they can wed.” (Rahn, 2008, p6). At the beginning of the play, we are introduced to Hermia, who is in love with Lysander. Egeus, her father, has other plans, and strongly desires to see her wed with Demetrius, a man for which she bears no feelings. ``Hermia’s father Egeus opposes the union between Hermia and Lysander not on grounds of his inferior wealth or social status but simply because he prefers Demetrius to Lysander.``(Rahn, 2008, p6) This is an obvious plot device which helps to create the foundation of the theme, while other devices and developments of romance build upon it. An example of romantic developments that coincide with the theme is the play supposedly played by the Mechanicals. Pyramus and Thisbe is a classic romantic tragedy in that both main lovers end with suicide, which once again proves that the course of true love never did run
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare plays with the themes of love, art, imagination, and dreaming to forge an overall meaning for his work. His play within a play, found in Act V, expands on his themes and portrays the relationship between the audience and the performers on stage (Richter, 2010, p6) …show more content…
In this scene, it is accused by Titania that her husband is jealous of the portion of her attention directed to the boy, and as a result, Oberon and his trickster fairy, Puck, begin scheming. “Act II discloses the conflict between Oberon and Titania over the “changeling” boy and his decision to punish her by playing a practical joke on her.” (Rahn, 2008, p6) For this scheme, Puck is directed to retrieve the flower of Love-in-idleness, which had been a normal pansy struck and therefore enchanted by the arrow of Cupid, a cherub of love. He successfully does so, which proves the extent of Oberon’s Jealousy and malice. The use of magic, fairies and angels are definitely devices of fantasy. “He anoints her eyes with a magic potion so she will fall in love “at first sight” with whomever or whatever she sees upon waking (ii, 33-34). (Rahn, 2008, p6) Any relationship with this amount of mischievousness certainly does not run …show more content…
“Critics classify A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a Romantic Comedy which means it deals with young people falling in love but having to overcome obstacles (usually imposed by parents) before they can wed.” (Rahn, 2008, p6). At the beginning of the play, we are introduced to Hermia, who is in love with Lysander. Egeus, her father, has other plans, and strongly desires to see her wed with Demetrius, a man for which she bears no feelings. ``Hermia’s father Egeus opposes the union between Hermia and Lysander not on grounds of his inferior wealth or social status but simply because he prefers Demetrius to Lysander.``(Rahn, 2008, p6) This is an obvious plot device which helps to create the foundation of the theme, while other devices and developments of romance build upon it. An example of romantic developments that coincide with the theme is the play supposedly played by the Mechanicals. Pyramus and Thisbe is a classic romantic tragedy in that both main lovers end with suicide, which once again proves that the course of true love never did run