Midsummer Night's Dream Appearance Vs Reality Analysis

The fact of life is everyone has a dream they wish to come true. Some dream of world peace and the end of world hunger or equality for all In society. We all choose to believe in out dreams, but , they are they are only different version of reality we choose to believe in. Like in our daily lives, Shakespeare uses the play Midsummer Night’s Dream as a direct representation of different reality’s as one of the main themes in the play. Then is reproduced two different film adaptations through the setting, lighting and charaization of the different characters in the play. In the play, Midsummer Nights Dream by Shakespeare, Shakespeare uses wording, metaphors, similes to develop the theme of appearance vs reality. In the beginning of the play Theseus starts the play with, “Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in Another moon. But oh, methinks how slow This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires, Like to a stepdame or a dowag Long withering out a young man’s revenue.” ( I.i, 1-6)”. In the play Shakespeare uses the moon in the beginning speech as imagery to a new moons coming. It also implies a …show more content…
One of the way he portrays the literal sense of different versions of reality is by using Bottom the Weaver as personification of the theme. As in the beginning of the play in the movie, Hoffman dress Bottom up in white head to toe with a fancy cain. In his appearance he looks like a rich wealth man but in all reality it is only the opposite. Later after making a huge arrogant scene of his act, gets liquid poured on him from a above. Hoffman uses this as a way to remind Bottom and his audience to show that all Bottom is a man trying to live in a make believe fantasy. Which shows Shakespeare’s arginal intent with bottom the weaver but uses costuming and different act from the original play to show its