Humanity In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Dalai Lama said “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive”. Many characters in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare show humanity despite being supernatural or seeming heartless. The play teaches us valuable lessons about humanity. Humans are creatures that have many different aspects to them and this concept is shown throughout the play. We learn that humanity is about mistakes, chaos, and love.
Humans make mistakes and that is an apparent theme within “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Puck, Oberon's fairy assistant, puts the love juice on the wrong person's eyes. During this, we see his human side when he shows remorse for his mistake. “What hast thou mistake quite, and laid the love juice on some true love’s sight” (3.2, 88 - 89). Puck tries so hard to follow the instructions he was given but fails to do so. We are able to see that even the smartest people make mistakes. Humanity is not all about who is the nicest, but the fact that human error is acceptable. That is one of the many lessons taught during this play. …show more content…
Humanity is all about chaos and how a person deals with it. When Oberon, the fairy king, wants a changeling boy from the fairy queen, Titania, disorder breaks out. “And for her sake do I rear up her boy, And for her sake I will not part with him” (2.1, 136 - 137). We see the humanity within them and how they coped with the chaos and disagreement. Both characters seem like strong beings but we are able to detect how distraught and frustrated they get. This teaches us that even the steadiest of people care enough about something, in this case, a changeling boy, to cause
Dalai Lama said “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive”. Many characters in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare show humanity despite being supernatural or seeming heartless. The play teaches us valuable lessons about humanity. Humans are creatures that have many different aspects to them and this concept is shown throughout the play. We learn that humanity is about mistakes, chaos, and love.
Humans make mistakes and that is an apparent theme within “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Puck, Oberon's fairy assistant, puts the love juice on the wrong person's eyes. During this, we see his human side when he shows remorse for his mistake. “What hast thou mistake quite, and laid the love juice on some true love’s sight” (3.2, 88 - 89). Puck tries so hard to follow the instructions he was given but fails to do so. We are able to see that even the smartest people make mistakes. Humanity is not all about who is the nicest, but the fact that human error is acceptable. That is one of the many lessons taught during this play. …show more content…
Humanity is all about chaos and how a person deals with it. When Oberon, the fairy king, wants a changeling boy from the fairy queen, Titania, disorder breaks out. “And for her sake do I rear up her boy, And for her sake I will not part with him” (2.1, 136 - 137). We see the humanity within them and how they coped with the chaos and disagreement. Both characters seem like strong beings but we are able to detect how distraught and frustrated they get. This teaches us that even the steadiest of people care enough about something, in this case, a changeling boy, to cause