The Crucible Vs A Midsummer Night's Dream Essay

It is said that no matter what you do there will always be someone better than you at something. The same saying can be applied to objects as well, such as a book. In the case of which book, The Crucible or A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is better for young readers and high school students A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a better book for high school students to read. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, written by William Shakespeare, in the Elizabethan period is a better book for high school students to read because it has characters that young readers can easily understand and connect with, an ending that portrays the gratitude of patience, and balance between the plot and language. During their teenage years children experience a lot of relationships; these relationships can either be platonic or romantic. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Helena is baffled at the fact Hermia has just called her fair. She continues to go on about how her beauty could never measure up to the perfect nature of Hermia. Helena also wishes that Hermia would her how to win Demetrius’ heart (1.1.185-97). Any young girl, or boy, could sympathize with Helena. The young reader may be able to understand what the young, distraught, lover is …show more content…
For example a young reader may have a hard time comprehending and interpreting Shakespearean literature such as, “Less than an ace, man, for he is dead, he is nothing” (5.1.325-6). However, there are resources online that can help a reader to better understand the language. Also, since the plot of the story is simple the reader can invest themselves more in understand the language of the play. If the plot of the play were complex and hard to follow the play would be undesirable for high school reader, and many others. But, since the plot follows a simple story the reader is now able to spend more time interpreting the words, without fear of losing themselves in the