William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream can be said to be one of his most light hearted and comical plays. This is because at some point multiple characters, whether they be human or fairy, fall in love with the wrong person. The play takes place in Athens, where the duke will have his wedding in four days. Most of the play, however, takes place in the forest where two lovers named Hermia and Lysander run to elope, but they followed by Demetrius, who wants to win the heart of Hermia, and Helena, who wants to win the heart of Demetrius by helping him find Hermia. In the same forest, there is a conflict between Oberon and Titania, who roles are the king and queen of the fairies. They are funding over the human boy that is currently in
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C. Goddard even calls the play in itself a dream. Henry Goddard states:
It is characteristic of its author that he should have chosen this fanciful dream-play through which to announce for the first time in overt and unmistakable fashion the conviction that underlies every one of his supreme Tragedies: that this world of sense in which we live is but the surface of a vaster unseen world by which the actions of men are affected or overruled.
Goddard also cited a conversation between Hippolyta and Theseus, and as he analyzed this, he says that the characters go through periods of confusion throughout the play and questions how the four lovers can find a happy(75-77). He also describes Hippolyta’s character in a way that shows that she holds love at a high standard and that the miracle of love leads her to believe that things emerge from an “airy nothing” (Goddard 76). Just like Hippolyta, love is a very important part of the lives of these characters. It causes them to make decisions that were not the best and see things in people that were never
C. Goddard even calls the play in itself a dream. Henry Goddard states:
It is characteristic of its author that he should have chosen this fanciful dream-play through which to announce for the first time in overt and unmistakable fashion the conviction that underlies every one of his supreme Tragedies: that this world of sense in which we live is but the surface of a vaster unseen world by which the actions of men are affected or overruled.
Goddard also cited a conversation between Hippolyta and Theseus, and as he analyzed this, he says that the characters go through periods of confusion throughout the play and questions how the four lovers can find a happy(75-77). He also describes Hippolyta’s character in a way that shows that she holds love at a high standard and that the miracle of love leads her to believe that things emerge from an “airy nothing” (Goddard 76). Just like Hippolyta, love is a very important part of the lives of these characters. It causes them to make decisions that were not the best and see things in people that were never